Chapter 30 - The Crisis of Authority

Free Speech Movement

Free Speech Movement

The ________, as it called itself, created turmoil at Berkeley as students challenged campus police, occupied administrative offices, and produced a strike in which nearly three- quarters of the Berkeley students participated.

American life

Feminism had been a weak and often- embattled force in ________ for more than forty years after the adoption of the women suffrage amendment in 1920.

1963

The ________ publication of Betty Friedans The Feminine Mystique is often cited as an important early event of contemporary womens liberation.

Abortion

________ had once been legal in much of the United States, but by the beginning of the twentieth century it was banned by statute in most of the country and remained so into the 1960s.

Stonewall Riot

The "________ "helped make the gay liberation movement.

science of ecology

The ________ was spreading widely in the scientific community.

Ecology

________ is the science of the interrelatedness of the natural world.

Homosexuality

________ and lesbianism had been unacknowledged realities throughout American history.

New Left

One of the most visible results of the increasingly assertive youth movement was the radicalization of many American college and university students, who in the 1960s formed what became known as the ________ - a large, diverse group of men and women energized by the polarizing developments of their time.

Weathermen

The ________ were responsible for several cases of arson and bombing that destroyed campus buildings and claimed several lives

Native American

The ________ unemployment rate was ten times the national rate.

Eisenhower

The ________ administration barred further “terminations” without the consent of the affected tribes

César Chávez

One of the most visible efforts to organize Mexican Americans occurred in California, where an Arizona-born Latino farmworker, ________, created an effective union of itinerant farmworkers

The Feminine Mystique

The 1963 publication of Betty Friedan’s ________ is often cited as an important early event of contemporary women’s liberation.

Earth Day

On April 22, 1970, people all over the United States gathered in schools and universities, in churches and clubs, in parks and auditoriums, for the first ________.

Henry Kissinger

Despite Nixon’s own passionate interest in international affairs, he brought with him into government a man who ultimately seemed to overshadow him in the conduct of diplomacy: ________, a Harvard professor whom the president appointed as his national security adviser.