1965 -1980 OVERVIEW Politics World Events Music Sports

1965 -1980 OVERVIEW Politics, World Events, Music, Sports, and More

US POLITICS President Lyndon B. Johnson § Took office in 1963 after JFK was assassinated § In the election of 1964 Johnson won and stayed in the White House as President Civil Rights supporter § Voting Rights Act § Nominated Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court and Robert C. Weaver to be Secretary of his Cabinet § Civil Rights Act 1968

POLITICS Lyndon B. Johnson cont. The Great Society § Johnson’s agenda for Congress during his Presidency § Increase Federal Funding for Education § War on Poverty and Healthcare Reform (Medicare) § Space Program (Apollo Program) § Civil Rights-Voting Rights Act § Conservation (Wilderness Protection Act) Foreign Policy § Vietnam War § Six Day War

US POLITICS Nixon Election of 1968 § Johnson withdrew § Robert Kennedy was assassinated § Nixon won against Hubert Humphrey Foreign Policy § China § Vietnam War § Soviet Union (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) § Middle East

US POLITICS Nixon Domestic Policy § Economy § Civil Rights § Affirmative Action § Integration Space Program § § § Apollo 11 First humans on the moon Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin 1969 “One small step for man one giant leap for man kind”

US POLITICS Nixon 1972 Presidential Election § Ran against George Mc. Govern § Won 520 electoral votes to 17 § Carried 49 states Watergate § Nixon authorized bugging and burglary of the Demo National Committee Headquarters in Watergate complex § Men got caught § Nixon tried to cover up by destroying tapes § Impeachment § First President to ever resign

US POLITICS Gerald Ford § Took over the Presidency after Nixon resigned § Served 1974 to 1977 Major Events of Ford’s Presidency § Pardon of Nixon § Vietnam § Middle East Society Union (limitations on nuclear weapons)

US POLITICS Carter Election of 1976 § Defeated President Ford Major Events During Presidency § US Energy Crisis § Shortage of oil due to Middle East issues § Said it was the moral equivalent of war § Encouraged people to conserve § Love Canal § US boycott of Moscow Olympic § Since the modern Olympics began in the late 1800 s this was the first time the US did not participate

US ISSUES Oil Crisis § 1973 -1979 § Only license plates with odd numbers could go on odd-numbered days and same with even numbers Space exploration § Near loss of Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970 led to Anti-NASA feelings § Plans for missions up to Apollo 20 were canceled. § Spent most of 70 s working on the space shuttle

WORLD ISSUES Cold War § Conflicts between capitalist and communist forces Vietnam War § Stop Communist spread in Vietnam § 26 th Amendment (voting age 18) Iran Hostage Crisis § Iranian Revolution 1979 § Distrust between the revolutionaries and Western powers Six Day War Munich Massacre § 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany § Palestinian Arab terrorists kidnaped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes

CULTURE Women’s Movement § § Feminism grew First woman President in Argentina-Isabel Peron Roe v. Wade (abortion legalized) More opportunity for women in the workplace Anti-War Protests § § In opposition to the Vietnam war Kent State shootings Environmentalism § First Earth Day was on April 22, 1970 TV § § § Brady Bunch Happy Days Partridge Family

CULTURE Counterculture § § § § § Values and norms different from mainstream society Started with youth against segregation Anti-War sentiments Expressed in music, fashion and beliefs Hippie movement (harmony with nature, communal living, experimentation, recreational drugs, artistic expression) Sexual liberation Drugs Gender equality Gay-rights

MUSIC Popular Artists § § § Beatles Bob Marley David Bowie Stevie Wonder Rolling Stones Bruce Springsteen Woodstock 1969 § 400, 000 people § Bethel, New York § 2 people died Anti-War songs § Ohio by Neil Young § War by Edwin Starr § Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival

SPORTS First Super Bowl 1967 (Green Bay v. KC Chiefs) 1970 Plane Crash killing the entire Marshall (West Virginia) football team. First College Basketball Team to start all African American players Texas Western College under coach Don Haskins 1980 Olympics USA v. Soviets in Ice Hockey § Called the “Miracle on Ice” US won 4 -3