HIST 106 1st Edition Lecture 22 Outline of Last Lecture I America During Vietnam War Outline of Current Lecture I Things going on During Vietnam War Current Lecture Battle of Dien Bien Phu o We wanted the French to join NATO The NVA had a lot of equipment b c it was a very short distance between the manufactures and the battlefield o We had to take our weapons from the US all the way to Vietnam Things going on during the same decade as the Vietnam war o Counterculture large number of reactions to the Vietnam war o Civil Rights o Politics Politics o Johnson is President until 1968 The Great Society declares war on poverty Creates Office of Economic Opportunity Passes Medicare and medicate Passed Department of Housing and Human Development Opens immigration which had been close since 1924 Appoints 4 liberal judges to the supreme court Miranda v Arizona entitles you to certain rights He starts pouring money in at the bottom and national income start to rise o Liberation Movement Free Speech Movement Women s Liberation ERA Equal Rights Amendment Phyllis Schlafly fought against the ERA saying it was an assault on God and Texas values ERA was shot down Latino Liberation These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Growing Violence o Takeovers of University President s homes o 1968 is the most violent year in American history Mi Lei The president is trying to keep inflation low but it is going up because we are trying to support the war The money that is created for the war is circling back to the US Counterculture o 2 types of Hippies 1 The pre 1968 Hippie dissatisfaction with the government 2 The Hippies after 1968 The word Hippie took on a new meaning People are dropping out Becoming much more aggressive o They thought maybe we are looking at things the wrong way o They turned things around and tried to look at it from the other side o They adapted MLK s idea about non violence o Hippie movement was based on the Military Industrial Complex o Hippies thought there are 2 ways to change the world 1 Leave the cities and build cities and societies 2 Remain and become culture activist o The Heads v The Straights Hippies v non hippies o They experimented o Slogans I m a human being do not fold spindle or mutilate me o Movies Strawberry Statement Easy Rider The Graduate Mash o Music Satisfaction Mothers Little Helper by the Stones o People went from Jesus to Astrology o Students were leading the campaign o Most popular book about how students are being misused The Student as Nigger Lyndon Johnson steps down in 1968 We tried everything to stop the war o Rolling Thunder keep bombing the North until they give up o bath bombs Richard Nixon steps up o He is not worried about anything but winning o The economy starts to go downhill o Inflation is still going up very fast o Nixon responds by Increasing the interest rates Pouring money into the top o He imposes Wage and Price Control He sets limits on wage and prices People are upset o 1970 1973 HOPEC shut of oil to the US o Gas prices start to sour People are stealing gas from people s cars People aren t able to purchase as much which means factories are starting to produce less which leads to unemployment o Russians ruin their wheat crop and appeals to the US Nixon sells them all of our wheat US has a shortage of wheat and everything that s made from wheat Price goes up o Hated Anti War resistors Hated Youth Movement o He had the opportunity to replace 4 justices on the Supreme Court o Tries to undercut the Democratic Party by breaking into Democratic headquarters Watergate to plant a bug and go through files they were caught o Vice President of the US Spiro Agnew is caught taking a bribe in the White House and is forced to resign o Nixon is forced to turn in a video tape proving that it was his idea to break into Democratic Headquarters Gerald Ford becomes President in 1974 o 1st thing he did was pardon Mr Nixon