A TROUBLED JOURNEY: FROM PORT HURON TO WATERGATE
 
 

Issues to Understand

1. The New Left and Students for a Democratic Society; who was involved, what they stood for and the results

2. Causes of the decline of student radicalism

3. The 1960s youth counterculture; its beginnings, values, dress, music, and waning .

4. Causes, results of, and reactions against the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the "1970s

5. Results of the Tet offensive in Vietnam and in the United States.

6. Why President Johnson decided not to run for another term in 1968

7. Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and what resulted from it

8. The election of 1968; candidates, issues, violence surrounding it, and emergence of a new conservative majority

9. Nixon, Kissinger, and the policy of Vietnamization

10. How the Vietnam War ended and its costs to the United States and Indochina

11. Foreign policy of the Nixon administration; establishment of diplomatic relations with China, detente with the

U.S.S.R., and application of realpolitik in the Middle East and the Third World

12. The Nixon administration's domestic record; the economy, civil rights, social welfare, judicial appointments, and use of law-enforcement and other federal agencies

13. Reasons for Nixon's triumph in the 1972 election

14. The Watergate break-in and cover-up and Nixon's downfall.
 
 

VOCABULARY

The following terms are used in Chapter 31. To understand the chapter fully, it is important that you know what each of them means.

alienation feelings of withdrawal or estrangement from a person, thing, or society

obsession a dominating, persistent feeling, idea, or action, which a person cannot escape

maverick a dissenter

participatory democracy a society in which most citizens directly share in governmental decisions by holding office or making policy

napalm and Agent Orange chemicals used by the United States in Vietnam to burn villages and defoliate forests

ecology the scientific study of the relations between organisms and their environment; the political and social movement to protect those relations

chauvinism zealous and belligerent patriotism or devotion to any cause

taboo a prohibition; something set apart or forbidden

monogamy marriage of one woman with one man

pubescent arriving or arrived at puberty

realpolitik a pragmatic politics (especiallyas applied to foreign policy) based on advancement of the national interest without concern for ideology or morality

paranoid displaying the traits of a mental disorder in which one mistakenly believes that others have hostile intentions toward him or her

innuendo an indirect intimation (or hint) about a person or thing, especially of an unfavorable nature

dossier a file of documents relating to the same matter, subject, or person

vendetta blood feud or private war of revenge

prior restraint a type of government censorship that stops publication beforehand of materials deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds, rather than punishing the publisher or writer after the material is printed

impeachment the charging of a public official, such as the president, with misconduct in office

IDENTIFICATIONS

After reading Chapter 31, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

Mario Savio and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement

the New Left and red-diaper babies

Students for a Democratic Society, the Port Huron Statement, and Tom Hayden

Kent State and Jackson State killings

hippies and the counterculture

Woodstock

flower children and Haight-Ashbury

sexual revolution, the Pill, and Roe v. Wade

Tet offensive

Eugene McCarthy

Robert Kennedy

.Hubert Humphrey

George Wallace

Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and the Yippies

Henry Kissinger

Nixon Doctrine

My Lai massacre

SALT I

OPEC and the oil embargo

Salvador Allende

Neil Armstrong and Apollo II

the silent majority

Daniel EIisberg and the Pentagon Papers

Warren Burger

Spiro Agnew

George McGovern

Carl Bemstein and Bob Woodward

the White House "plumbers" and the Watergate break-in

Saturday Night Massacre

Senator Sam Ervin

SKILL BUILDING: MAPS

On a map of China and Indochina, locate and explain the importance in U.S. foreign policy of each of the following:

South Vietnam

Saigon "

Danang

Cambodia (Kampuchea)

Laos

North Vietnam

Hanoi ,

Haiphong

People's Republic of China

Beijing

Sino-Soviet border
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