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election of 1960

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JFK wins by landslide, in primaries LBJ had most votes- switch to JFK bc he was young, good looking, loved Jackie

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The Berlin Wall

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1961-1962, russia commies in east Germany decide to keep people (west germans) out

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Bay of Pigs

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April 20 1961- cia trains cuban exiles to invade cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro to reinstall capitalist regime, major fail

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Man on the moon

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JFK promises we will, summer of 1969 it happens

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JFK’s assassination

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1963 in Dallas (1963 in car with Jackie) LBJ comes into play

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The Progressive Mystique

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segregation looks different in the northern south than it does in the Deep South.

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Culture wars of 1960

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after JFK election, young people spurred to make change

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Civil Rights Act of 1963

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(1963, rights for you and me) People freaked out that JFK wanted to support civil rights, (Eisenhower passed one in 1950s) this allowed fed government to step in to stop racial violence… Violence then erupts in south- Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham

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Non-violence protests

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Southern christian leadership conference (SCLC), bus boycotts, sit-ins

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Greensboro

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(1960) 4 college students sit in at Woolworths to protest the segregation for not serving blacks in that restaurant, after their arrest people kept replacing each person that was arrested after

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James Meredith

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(1962) Huge civil rights movement, admitted into college but state government blocked him, fed govt steps in and assists him there

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Four Girls

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Birmingham, Alabama- four girls getting ready for school play while stick of dynamite threw at them, killing them, inspired march of little kids through city hall

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“Let Us Continue” speech

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(1963, Let us continue, LBJ) gave a speech to both houses of congress hyping up JFK

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Great Society

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LBJ’s war on poverty: guaranteed he wasn’t going to increase federal spending, wanted congress to vote for this legislation so he starts with a tax cut

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Election of 1964

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first time the Deep South votes republican, LBJ wins
- office of equal opportunity (OEO), job corps, food stamps, civil rights act of 1964, title VII (all about race and federal spending), education, medicare, mental healthcare, highway beautification
Even after 1964 civil rights act, still have violence b/c people still fighting for right to vote

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OSS Agent 19

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(1942) US intelligence agency during WWII, US keeps trying to help Vietnam, but its failing

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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(1964-65) US starts bombing Vietnam and illegally Cambodia and Laos, but US dropped more bombs on S. Vietnam, the country we tried saving than did in WWII

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The pill

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BC pill 1960- major shift for woman, shows self control and liberation apart from servitude of husband and family

Working class women are far more likely to have kids younger, higher classes can afford to dilly dally across the world without having kids until later

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Watts

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(1965) Watts, LA- largely black and latino working class community, built strong economic foundation

Massive amounts of violence in southern and western in 60s against black communities as civil rights movement advanced- A massive race riot explodes and destroys all of this progress made by people of color because the police unjustly attacked a Black young man, the entirety of Watts burns. Police’s aims used to be to control, not protect and serve.

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Summer of Love

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(1968) The Vietnamese launch a massive assault on all American firebases in S. Vietnamese aka Tet Offensive- americas response is very violent

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MLK assassination

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April 4th, 1968- Martin Luther King Jr. is shot and assassinated by a KKK member, FBI knew about this but purposely did nothing
When everybody finds out what happened to MLK, Black communities across the US explode in anger and violence but the only city to not have violence was Boston thanks to a concert that James Brown insisted on having as a form of community healing

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Cultural Revolution

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massive movement in communist china, trying to purify Chinese culture

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Robert “Bobby” Kennedy

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assassinated in 1968

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Election of 1972

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Richard Nixon wins closest election in American history, “silent majority” bc he has a secret to win Vietnam (just more bombs)
Richard Nixon wins by HUGE margins, broke into the Democratic national convention to steal their plans (didn’t need to), got caught, and paid off those who caught him

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Woodstock

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August 13-15, 1969 dancing, drugs, music

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Stonewall

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marks beginning of queer liberation movement!!
lower east side of Manhattan
called a riot
every state in US had laws that made it illegal to promote homosexuality
police go to make arrests but people fight back this time

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pentagon papers

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people told that attack on golf of Tonkin occurred, president Nixon lied and said that Americans were attacked unprovoked, Robert McNamara found evidence that was a lie, threatened to send to press, Nixon tried saying that went against executive privilege

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weather underground

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Known for blowing people up, including themselves
US college students would wear flowers, and when army would show up to “protect” people from their violence, would place flowers in the barrels of their guns

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Kent State Massacre

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students protesting walked up a hill and shots were fired killing innocent bystanders- May 4 1970

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Roe v. Wade

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1973- rules that constitution protected abortion, doctors and women couldn’t not discuss medical decisions…

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Southern Strategy

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Nixon turned affirmative action into a quota strategy

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confidence class

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confidence, understanding of the government is lowering in the 70s

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Watergate scandal

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1972- Nixon hired people to break into the democratic national convention headquarters in Watergate, won the election by landslide, paid & received hush money so he resigned before he could be impeached.

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OPEC

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1975- organization of petroleum exporting countries

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Killing Fields

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In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge led by murderous dictator Pol Pot, starts “year zero” and commits a social genocide by murdering all teachers, professors, technocrats, etc. etc. to create a “new society”
The killing got so bad that it was eventually the North Vietnamese had to depose pol pot

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Iran 1979

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The US overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953, installed the “Sha of Iran”, a brutal dictator who was taught how to repress and violently shut down any resistance in Iran
In 1979, there is a revolution in Iran that overthrows the Sha of Iran, and the US embassy is captured for 444 days, huge American prisoner crisis

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Iran/Contra affair

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Then that money gained from that deal was used to fund insurgents in Latin America (Nicaragua)

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Stagnation

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But all the military spending is driving inflation up, while the government isn’t necessarily spending

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Trickle-down economics

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“If we make sure that other people are making a lot of money, then don’t worry that money will trickle down to all the lower classes!”
All the money that the federal government used to spend on cities, budgets, sanitations, etc. are being pulled because of Reagan’s office of Budget and Management Services

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1984 & 1987

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market crashes
Housing market is skyrocketing in price, while banks and investors are preying on people with predatory loan scandals

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Reagan presidency probs

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Reagan administration brought the US in horrible debt, spent more in deficit than anyone else, brought us in terrible debt
Iran and Iraq were trying to kill each other in vicious war during the 80s
Then it came out that the US was illegally selling weapons to Iran, then taking that money to also ILLEGALLY sell weapons to illegal wars all over Latin America
Many Reagan administration members get tried and convicted then sent to prison
Reagan pardoned all the people who were supposed to go to prison

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Drug war focus

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small amounts owned by black people went to prison for longer than whites with large amounts

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Soviet Union

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disintegrated in 1991
Daddy Bush takes over after Reagan in 1989, the wall comes tumbling down in 1989, Soviet Union disintegrates in 1991
When Bill Clinton comes to power in 1991, the world is a very different place because… There’s no more Soviet Union…

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Camp David

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1979- Why can’t we co-exist again? Jimmy Carter arranges the meeting with Menachim Begin - he was involved in getting rid of the British. Makes a bunch of demands. Sadat says sure - until it gets too much. Carter charms them. Sadat says he is no longer going to attack Israel. But the PLO is still very active. Putting bombs in cars and buses.

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Beirut

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the Paris of the Middle East. But the PLO is headquartered there. So in 1981 the Israelis invaded. Lots of stuff was destroyed. Plan to kill as many PLO as they could, but all they do is end up killing civilians and destroying infrastructure. Then in the late 80s, Hezbollah moved in. Basically Iranian. Took over most of southern Lebanon. They provide water, electricity, and schools.

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Nafta

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The goal of NAFTA is to eliminate all tariff and non-tariff barriers of trade and investment between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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Bill Clinton

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Won election in 1992 against George bush - used tv to his advantage to talk about economy. Bill spent 2 years denying that he had sex with his intern, Republican party goes after him with impeachment even though every president has cheated on their wives

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Election of 2000

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George W. Bush v. Al Gore
Supreme Court stepped in and ruled that one state shouldn’t have so much power and ordered florida to stop counting the votes, and then George W. Bush wins because of this

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Student non-violent coordinating committee

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ppl who led the sit in

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Students for a democratic society

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voting rights in Mississippi

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Civil Rights act of 1964

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LBJ pushed it thru congress, Southerners hated this
Said that it cost the democratic party the south for the next 50 years

It inhibits their power, segregations gotta go
Voting rights act comes after

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Black Power Movement

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Did not want interracial coalition building, in the late 1960s and early 1970s the Black Power Movement discarded nonviolence
All civil rights movements were trying to remove Jim Crow laws/ways of life in the south
Eliminate segregations that keeps life divided
Especially voting

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American Indian Movement

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No forced assimilation, More tribal autonomy, independence, voting rights (BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T VOTE UNTIL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STARTED TO LET THEM VOTE IN THE 1970S AND 80S)
That the federal government start to honor the treaties they made with tribes and never honored them

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Jimmy Carter loss 1980

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Iranian revolution, American hostage crisis
Reagan campaign emphasized that the economy was so bad and it was Carter’s fault
Carter had been trying to fight the issues with the economy that had been going on for a while
Reagan ran a really good campaign, and also made a secret deal with Iranian government to not release the hostages until after the election

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Conservative Want

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When republicans launched their “contract for america”, conservatives wanted to expand gun rights
Wanted to eliminate affirmative action
Reduce welfare
Limit women’s rights
Wanted to get rid of LBJ’s great society

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