Chapter 30 - Rebellion and Reaction (the 1960s and 1970)

Civil rights activism

inspired a heightened interest in social causes during the sixties, especially among the young.

Stonewall riots

The in New York City in 1969 marked a militant new era for gay rights.

Nixon

In 1968, campaigned for the presidency pledging to secure "peace with honor" in Vietnam, but years would pass before the war ended.

Richard Nixons southern strategy

"drew conservative southern white Democrats into the Republican party.

Watergate

During the 1972 presidential campaign, burglars were caught breaking into the Democratic partys national campaign headquarters at the complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon tried to block congressional investigations, which eventually led to calls for his impeachment for obstruction of justice.

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

embodied the New Left ideology, and their ideas and tactics spread to many other campuses.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Nixon did grudgingly support new federal environmental policies such as the creation of the .

Paris Peace Accords

The publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the intense bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972 aroused more protests, but a month after the bombings began, North and South Vietnam agreed to a cease-fire called the .