**Creator**:: [[Aaron Bopp]] **Source**:: [[course_US History from 1870]] - [[notes_1960's General Notes]] - Youth [[Revolt]] - [[Anti-war|Anti War]] - non-college students could be drafted, college students could nto - Broad wave of dissatisfaction among young middle class white [[America|Americans]] - Counter-culture - hippie movement - [[eastern philosophy|Eastern mysticism]] was popular - Woodstock - rejection of traditional politics authority and [[morality]] - [[The Left|New Left]] students for Democratic Soceity (SDS) - Port Huron Statement - In support of direct democracy - Free Speech Movement (FSM) - ban on political speech at Columbia - Weatherman - offshoot of SDS that was pro-violence - don't need a weatherman to know where the wind blows - People did not join with their cause - black panthers denounced the group - Hells Angels - build different society through violence - Nixon changed policies to make draft process more "fair" - Anti-war movement could not be quelled - Veterans return from the war - Met with disgust and hate from anti-war movement - Vietnam Vets against the war - War must end immediately - stand up to [[government|govt]] is most important responsibility - John Carry - Spoke to the pointlessness of the [[Vietnam War]] - Painted a picture of violence done by american soldiers - brought a lot of hate from other people in the military who claimed it was extreme cases - The pentagon Papers - History of Vietnam Policy - commisioned by secretary of war because he was uncomfortable with the war - detailed how LBJ had hidden elements of the war from congress - Nixon tried to silence it - anti-war sentiment only grew stronger - Impact of vietnam under north [[Vietnam|vietnamese]] leadership - US policy for Asia in shambles - Changes in view of Cold War - doesn't need to be direct involvement - PTSD and health concerns due to to tactics used in the war - Nixon and Vietnam - Escalation - continuing protest - 1973 Vietnamization - extraction of forces - return of POWs - end of S&D missions - Declare victory and leave - Nixon - Ran based of American's fears - Started fear of crime - Law and order - Silent majority - Election of 1972 - Used southern strategy - oppose [[Civil Rights]], affirmative action - tried to outlaw personal decisions - Realigned parties closer to what they are today - republicans - regressive - small government - fiscally conservative - democrats - [[Civil Rights]] - social rights - Foreign policy - Withdrew from Vietnam - Five Policeman Concept - US, [[Russia|Soviet Union]], China, Japan, Western Europe - policed the rest of the world - Began communication with China - Berlin Agreement - Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty - Stopped production of some of the weapons that shot down missiles - Domestic Policy - Strong sense of paranoia - [[Civil Rights]] - Environmental Protection - Responded to **Silent Spring** by creating NOAA and EPA but refused to spend any money on environment - Stagflation - Lots of [[government|govt]] spending without increasing taxes - Lots of new workers - Wishy-washy response - Watergate - Huston PLan - eliminate opponents using espionage - Plumbers - intelligence gathering group - Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) - approached companies to give money in exchange for political favors - 1972 break-in interrogations lead to members of CREEP - Watergate Trials - Executive Privilege - Nixon would not give up incriminating documents - Nixon tried to fire investigators - 1974 - hearings and impeachment - Nixon resigned August 9th, 1974 - Does not admit guilt or innocence - Fall-out - War Powers Act - President must inform congress after deploying troops - Limits on Political Contributions - Expansion of Freedom of Information Act - Denied use of executive privilege - Ford - Agnue resigned for accepting bribes - Republican Party on defensive - WIN Wip inflation now - Hoover of 1970s - Vetoed 39 bills - Pardoned Nixon - Carter - Election of 1976 - half of [[America|americans]] didn't vote - outsider - [[Christianity|christian]] - sincere, not a lier - Early sucess - Diverse staff - reduced staff - reduced red tape - federal funding for chemical cleanup - Carter's limitations - did not have to skill to get bills through [[congress]] - special interests took advantage - approval ratings fell as gas prices rose - Crisis of [[confidence]] - blamed [[America|americans]] - [[Foreign policy]] - camp dabid accords - treaty between [[israel]] and Egypt - Panama - returned panama canal to panama - created office human rights - pledged to cut off nations - [[Afghanistan]] - US provided weapons to rebels that would become the taliban - Crisis in [[Iran]] - shah was an American puppet - [[America]] allowed Iranian shah in to get medical assistance - [[Iran]] hostage crisis - hostages weren't released until carter released money - hostages weren't released until [[Reagan]] - [[Reagan]] staffers sold weapons to [[Iran]] and may have helped keep hostages until [[Reagan]] elected - [[notes_1980's General Notes]]