This chapter discusses the crisis of authority in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Key topics covered include the rise of the youth counterculture, the civil rights and anti-war movements, feminism, environmentalism, and the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to Richard Nixon's resignation from the presidency in 1974.

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 The Youth Culture
 Personal “Liberation”

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 The Youth Culture
 The New Left
 SDS
“We are people of this generation, bred
in at least modest comfort, housed now
in universities, looking uncomfortably to
the world we inherit.”
- Port Huron Statement

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 The Youth Culture
 The New Left
 SDS
 Campus Unrest
 Opposition to the Draft

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 The Youth Culture
 The Counterculture
 Commitment to Personal Fulfillment
 Woodstock
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"Woodstock was beads and colors
and flowers and sunshine and
beautiful people."
-John Sebastian

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 The Mobilization of Minorities
 Seeds of
Indian Militancy
 “Termination”
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Aboriginal Territories and
Modern Reservations of
Western Indian Tribes

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 The Mobilization of Minorities
 The Indian Civil Rights Movement
 AIM
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 The Mobilization of Minorities
 The Indian Civil Rights Movement
 AIM
 Wounded Knee Occupied
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 The Mobilization of Minorities
 Latino Activism
 Growing Latino Population
 United Farm Workers
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 The Mobilization of Minorities
 Gay Liberation
 “Stonewall Riot”
 Backlash against Gay Liberation
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 The New Feminism
 The Rebirth
 Betty Friedan
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“Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she
made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched
slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her
children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay
beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even
of herself the silent question-‘Is this all?’”
- Betty
Friedan

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 The New Feminism
 The Rebirth
 Betty Friedan
 NOW
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“There is no civil rights movement to speak
for women as there has been for Negroes
and other victims of discrimination.”
National Organization for Women

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 The New Feminism
 Women’s Liberation
 Increasing Radicalism
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 The New Feminism
 Expanding Achievements
 Economic Success
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Women in the Paid Work Force
1940-2000

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 The New Feminism
 Expanding Achievements
 Economic Success
 Failure of the ERA
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 The New Feminism
 The Abortion Issue
 Roe v. Wade
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"We forthwith acknowledge our awareness of the sensitive and emotional
nature of the abortion controversy, of the vigorous opposing views, even
among physicians, and of the deep and seemingly absolute convictions
that the subject inspires…Our task, of course, is to resolve the issue by
constitutional measurement, free of emotion and of predilection.”
- Roe v. Wade

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 Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society
 The New Science of Ecology
 New Rationale for Environmentalism
 Aldo Leopold
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“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot
cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you
cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the
waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and
mine the farm. The land is one organism.”
- Aldo Leopold

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 Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society
 Environmental Advocacy
 Re-emergence of Environmental Organizations
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 Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society
 Environmental Degradation
 Water Pollution
 Exxon Valdez
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 Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society
 Earth Day and Beyond
 The First “Earth Day”
 EPA Established
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 Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
 Vietnamization
 Henry Kissinger
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“The illegal we do immediately.
The unconstitutional takes a
little longer.”
- Henry Kissinger

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 Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
 Escalation
 Invasion of Cambodia
 Kent State
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Antiwar Poster

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 Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
 Escalation
 Invasion of Cambodia
 Kent State
 Pentagon Papers
 Easter Offensive
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 Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
 “Peace with Honor”
 “Christmas Bombing”
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 Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
 Defeat in Indochina
 Fall of Saigon
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 Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
 The China Initiative and Soviet-American
Détente
 Nixon and China
 SALT I
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 Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
 Dealing with the Third World
 Nixon Doctrine
 Allende Overthrown
 Arab Oil Embargo
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 Politics and Economics in the Nixon Years
 Domestic Initiatives
 Nixon’s “Silent Majority”
Richard M. Nixon
(Library of Congress)
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 Politics and Economics Under Nixon
 From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court
 Civil Liberties Expanded
 Milliken v. Bradley
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 Politics and Economics Under Nixon
 The Election of 1972
 George McGovern
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 Politics and Economics Under Nixon
 The Troubled Economy
 OPEC
 Growing Foreign Competition
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 Politics and Economics Under Nixon
 The Nixon Response
 Rising Inflation
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Inflation, 1960-2000

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 The Watergate Crisis
 The Scandals
 Watergate “Cover-Up”
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“What did the president know and when did he
know it?”
Senator Howard Baker

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 The Watergate Crisis
 The Scandals
 Watergate “Cover-Up”
 Watergate Tapes
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 The Watergate Crisis
 The Fall of Richard Nixon
 United States v. Richard Nixon
 Resignation
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“Our long national nightmare is over.”
Gerald Ford

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 Debating the Past:
Watergate
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