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The Vietnam War pg 839

 * Long coast lots of rivers
 * not many square miles
 * abundance of water
 * boredered by laos, cambodia, and china
 * many us bases in south vietnam and thailand
 * Ho chi minh trail cut through laos to allow supplies to be brought to vietcong in south vietnam
 * 1970 usa attacks cambodia.

The New Left
24: The 1950s a) Emergence of the modern civil rights movement b) The affluent society and "the other America" c) Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America d) Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels e) Impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine

__Since 1960__ 25: The Turbulent 1960s a) From the New Frontier to the Great Society b) Expanding movements for civil rights c) Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe d) Beginning of Détente e) The antiwar movement and the counterculture

26: Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century a) The election of 1968 and the "Silent Majority" b) Nixon's challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate c) Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service economy d) The New Right and the Reagan revolution e) End of the Cold War

27: Society and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century a) Demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the graying of America b) Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers c) Politics in a multicultural society

Women's Rights

 * Voting Rights (19th amendment)
 * Social expectations (1920s Flapper)(birth control)
 * Pink collar jobs(equality in the workplace)
 * Military Service
 * Home Life(motherhood expectations - Cult Domesticity)
 * Education Opportunities
 * Political Activity
 * Suffrage
 * Homefront during wartime

Major Changes in the 60s and 70s

 * Social Equality
 * Economic equality and equal opportunity for jobs
 * New educational opportunities.
 * **Feminism** - a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women
 * **Women's Liberation** - freedom from the contraints of social expectations. Freedom to make their own choices.
 * Abortion - Roe v. Wade

Ch 32 Top Ten List

 * 1) The New Left
 * 2) CounterCulture
 * 3) Feminism
 * 4) NOW (National Organization for Women)
 * 5) Roe v. Wade
 * 6) President Nixon
 * 7) Free Speech Movement
 * 8) SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)
 * 9) kfjda
 * 10) Ford Pardons Nixon

Watergate

Domestic Affairs

 * Proposition 13
 * Sagebrush Rebellion was western opposition to the restrictions on development and environmental laws. Attempted to show the west as a victim of government controll. Demaneded that much of the land owned by the government to be opened up to the public.
 * Reagonomics - supply-side economics. reduced taxes in order to increase profit by businesses, this encouraged new investments which resulted in a drop in the federal budget. This slowed the growth of the economy
 * tricle down economics - favor the supply slide and everything will trickle down to help out the other classes.

Foreign Affairs

 * Soviet Union and the United States resolve tension and end the cold war
 * The Iranian revolution caused tension which resulted in the year of the Hostages. Where fifty-three americans were held hostage in Iran
 * The king of Israel and Egypt were at war and President Carter mediated the problem and created a treaty between the two. Known as the Camp David Accords