Politics, World Events, Music, Sports, and More

1965-1980 OVERVIEW

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

US 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

POLITICS

NixonElection 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

Affi rmative 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

Nixon1972 Presidential Election

Ran against George McGovern 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

CarterElection of 1976

Defeated President FordMajor 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 1800s this was the first time the US did not participate

US POLITICS

Oil Crisis 1973-1979 Only license plates with odd numbers could go on odd-

numbered days and same with even numbersSpace 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 70s working on the space shuttle

US ISSUES

Cold War Conflicts between capitalist and communist forces

Vietnam War Stop Communist spread in Vietnam 26th Amendment (voting age 18)

Iran Hostage Crisis Iranian Revolution 1979 Distrust between the revolutionaries and Western powers

Six Day WarMunich Massacre

1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany Palestinian Arab terrorists kidnaped and murdered eleven

Israeli athletes

WORLD ISSUES

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

CULTURE

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

MUSIC

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

SPORTS