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.