AP US History Chapter 29 – A Time of Upheaval, 1968-1974

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AP US History

Chapter 29 – A Time of Upheaval, 1968-1974

Identifications: After reading Chapter 29, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

New Right/New Left

SDS (est. 1962)

Port Huron Statement

Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Kent State/Jackson State

The Counterculture/Hippies

Haight-Ashbury, San Fran.

Woodstock Festival

Sexual Revolution

Birth Control Pill

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Gay Liberation Movement

Tet Offensive

Election of 1968

Eugene McCarthy

My Lai Massacre

Paris Peace Accords (1973)

Détente

SALT I (1972)

“shuttle diplomacy”

Salvador Allende

Moon Landing (1969)

Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin

EPA

Earth Day (est. 1970)

“stagflation”

“enemies list”

“plumbers”

Daniel Ellsberg/Pentagon Papers

James Earl Ray

Sirhan Sirhan

Hubert Humphrey

Dem. Convention, Chicago (1968)

Richard Daley

Richard Nixon

“peace with honor”

“silent majority”

George Wallace

Henry Kissinger realpolitik

Vietnamization

Thought Questions:

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board

Warren Burger

Spiro Agnew

Election of 1972

George McGovern

CREEP

Watergate break-in/cover-up

James McCord

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

“Deep Throat”

John Dean

“Saturday Night Massacre”

Nixon’s resignation (1974)

1. 1968 was a turning point for the United States. To what extent is this an accurate assessment with regard to national politics, the Vietnam War, and Civil Rights?

2. Describe and account for the changes in the American presidency between 1964 and

1975, as symbolized by Johnson’s Great Society and Nixon’s Watergate. In your answer, address the powers of the presidency and the role of the media.

3. Analyze the successes and failures of the United States Cold War policy of containment as it developed in East and Southeast Asia and the Middle East during the period 1945-1975.

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