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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Altamont | California concert that revealed a dark side to the counterculture, where drugs, music, and youth were associated not with peace and love but with anger, violence, and death. |
| Antiwar Movement | As Vietnam deteriorated, Johnson escalated American involvement. Stalemates, body counts, hazy war aims, and the draft catalyzed protests throughout the United States and Europe |
| Tet Offensive | Communist forces attacked more than one hundred American and South Vietnamese sites. It demonstrated that despite the repeated claims of administration officials, the enemy could still strike at will anywhere in the country. |
| The evolution of the civil rights movement | Lines of race, class, and gender ruptured American "mass" culture. The monolith of popular American culture, (exclusively white, male-dominated, conservative, and stifling) shattered and Americans retreated into ever smaller, segmented subcultures. |
| African Americans in popular culture | Black cultural forms assumed new popularity. Disco-racially integrated pop music. Musicians Aretha Franklin, Andraé Crouch,"5th Beatle" Billy Preston brought background church performance to recordings+collaborations w white artists ex Rolling Stones. |
| Urban Riots | Violence among whites protesting new civil rights programs (Boston)&from white police officers &African Americans spiraled into days of chaos and destruction. (Watts/Los Angeles (1965), Newark (1967), and Detroit (1967)) were the most shocking. Violence |
| Assassinations | John F. Kennedy (1963), Malcolm X (1965) Martin Luther king (1968) Robert Kennedy (1968) |
| 1968 Democratic Convention | Bloody riot in 1968 in Chicago to protest the Democratic National Convention because of Democratic support of the Vietnam war. Led to Republican win for the presidency. |
| Richard Nixon's 1968 Campaign | Republican challenger played on fears of urban unrest, ran on a platform of "law and order", vowed to defend the "silent majority" along with a vague plan to end the war |
| Detente | Relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals (Soviet Union and China). |
| Watergate | The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment. |
| urban crisis | Decline of industry, jobs and infrastructure in major cities, caused by increased suburbanization, mechanization of factories and deindustrialization. Detroit, MI came to symbolize it. |
| Sun Belt | U.S. region, mostly comprised of southeastern and southwestern states, which has grown most dramatically since World War II. |
| The Sex Wars | Kicked off by Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that protected women's access to abortion. Feminists discussed/debated issues pertaining to sex, sexuality and gender roles. |
| Women's Equality in the Workplace | Protests prompted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to issue a more robust set of protections between 1968 and 1971. Women used these protections to move eventually into traditional male occupations (politics and corporate management). |
| Stonewall Riots | Police regularly raided gay bars and hangouts. But when police raided in June 1969, the bar patrons protested and sparked a multiday street battle that catalyzed a national movement for gay liberation. |
| Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) | A constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender. Defeated by conservatives and evangelicals |
| Phyllis Schlafly | Her organization STOP ERA organization ("Stop Taking Our Privileges") trumpeted the value and advantages of being a homemaker and mother, and worked tirelessly to defeat the ERA |
| Carter's Presidency | worked mostly for human and civil rights but collapse of American manufacturing, the stubborn rise of inflation, the sudden impotence of American foreign policy, and a culture ever more divided - ended with one term |
| global trade | the exchange of goods or services between individuals, organizations, or governments of different nations |
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