University:
York University
Course:
HIST 2600 | United States History
Academic year:

2018
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487

Pages:

2
Author:

Nick T.

Stalemate: (North) Our attacks only fueled Vietnam's hatred for us. All just led to a bloody stalemate Years of Turmoil Hippies and beatniks become a thing. The Student Revolt: Universit of California Berkely = Free-Speech Movement. • Mario Savio SDS Students For Democratic Society participatory Democracy. "New Left" usually consisted of upper-middle class. Protesting The Vietnam War "If you were in college, you were safe from the draft... SDS and Black Radicals. Cultural Revolution: • Woodstock Leary promoted the drug scene and challenged American & adult values and culture. "Black Power" Stokky Carmichael: Black Power leader would promote the power of being black and 4 outnumbering whites. would cause MLK to lose his supporters like the NAACP. Blacks began to adopt their own. culture and pride. Ethnic Heritage Studies Act of 1972 Ceasar Chavez would fight to raise the wage of migrant Farmers. Mexican Americans would go by Chicano. Women's Liberation •Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" called The American home "a comfortable concentration camp" Under the Civil Rights Act, women. for employment. were legally considered Now nad extremists. Return of Richard Nixon: Vietnam undermines Lyndon Johnson: Tet Offensive, the Vietnamese attacked during a night of peaceful truths. →LBJ reduced the bombings and practically gave-up. Democrats Divided: Eugene McCarthy: "whatever is morally necessary must be made. politically possible" wanted the democrat nomination. Robert kennedy would run. Support From the minorities. Le was assasinated against McCarthy and had more Hubert Humphrey: VP wno declared candidacy. Lo would win the ballot •Resulted in widespread violence. Republican Resurgance: Nixon promised reunite the divided nation. → Humphrey was neckled by anti-war individuals, but once he Said something about Vietnam, he would close-in George Wallace racist who stole some momentum. *Nixon would win. on Nixon.