Easter+Vacation+Reading

Ch 30 - The 1970s

 * pp. 1184-1185**

Kent State shootings, Nixon's invasion of Cambodia


 * pp. 1194-1201** on politics during Nixon's terms and Watergate



Nixon's bio, Nixon's moderate Republicanism, Nixon and New Deal/Great Society programs, Family Assistance Plan, Nixon's "[|New Federalism]," revenue sharing, //Apollo 11//, Neil Armstrong,

the "[|Silent Majority]" speech (explaining Vietnamization), May 1970 [|Hard Hat Riot] in NYC, Nixon and the backlash against crime and radicalism, Nixon's reelection strategy: 1. concessions to Southerners on civil rights 2. law and order rhetoric 3. conservative judicial appointments 4. Spiro Agnew, Chicago 8, Warren Burger

1972 presidential election, Sen. George McGovern, the New Left takes over the 1972 [|Democratic convention in Miami], May 1972 assassination attempt against George Wallace, Nixon's landslide (book leaves out impact of Nixon's withdrawal from Vietnam and trip to China in explaining his temporary popularity)

the [|Watergate Complex], June 1972 [|break-in] by Nixon's "[|plumbers]," CRP, Sen. Sam Ervin, Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Committee), White House Counsel John Dean, White House [|taping system], Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" of the Justice Department, Agnew's resignation over corruption, Gerald Ford, //United States v. Nixon//, the "[|smoking gun]" tape, Nixon resigns


 * pp. 1201-1211** on rights movements and 1970s culture

//You can use this chart for just the 1970s. If you create it in Word or draw it yourself, you can add rows for women and African Americans and have every major group in the chapter covered.//

African-American gains in workplaces and politics, public education as civil rights battleground, //Alexander// and //Swann// cases, busing, //Milliken v. Bradley//, affirmative action, 1978 //Bakke// case on admissions quotas

Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers, Hispanic culture movement

American Indian Movement, December 1972 takeover of the BIA headquarters, February 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, [|Trail of Broken Treaties]

Asian American gains, Stonewall Inn riot

//The Feminine Mystique//, National Organization for Women (NOW), Title IX, 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), //Roe v. Wade//, "right to privacy," //Ms.// magazine, //Our Bodies, Ourselves//, Phyllis Schlafly defeats the ERA, the rise of single motherhood and poverty

1970s as "Me Decade," disco, //Roots//, //All in the Family//, Archie Bunker, //Rocky//, //M*A*S*H//, //The Deer Hunter//


 * pp. 1212-1215** on the economic crisis of the 1970s and the birth of the environmental movement

1970s Stagflation (inflation + unemployment): late 1960s-1970s price inflation, supply shocks from rising oil prices, foreign competition to American trade, Toyota and fuel efficient cars, Nixon's "New Economic Policy" or "Nixon Shock": wage and price controls, import surcharges, abandon the gold standard

//Silent Spring//, Rachel Carson, DDT, Love Canal, Three Mile Island partial meltdown, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Quality and Air Quality acts, Earth Day


 * pp. 1215-1221** on Ford and Carter



Ford pardons Nixon, 1976 presidential election, Jimmy Carter, Carter and the economy, Paul Volcker and disinflation, 1978 Panama Canal treaty, Carter's human rights foreign policy, SALT II, Camp David Accords, 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran Hostage Crisis, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter's responses and the "Second Cold War"