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I.
 Latinos/Chicanos
1. Cesar
Chavez & the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
2. East L.A.
Walkouts & La Raza Unida vs. 2006 walkouts
II.
Native Americans
3. American
Indian Movement
Trail of Broken Treaties
Wounded Knee
Indian Self-Determination & Education Assistance Act
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1972
Indian Education Act
III.
Women’s Rights
4. Betty
Friedan, Gloria Steinem vs. Phyllis Schlafly & The New Right
5. National
Organization for Women (NOW)
Roe v. Wade
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
IV.
Unrest at Home
6. the
Counter Culture: leaders, role of drugs, housing, important
cities, language, the Summer of Love
7. Race
Riots: 1965 Watts, 1967
Detroit, 1968 MLK riots
8.
Assassinations: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bobby
Kennedy, Malcolm X
9. Campus
Protests: from Students for a Democratic Society to Kent State
10. Watergate:
the downfall of a president
11. Saving
the Environment: 1st Earth Day, Rachel Carson,
Environmental Protection Agency, 3 mile Island, and Do we drill in
Alaska?
12. Energy
Crisis of the 1970s: what are the similarities between then and
now?
13. Space
Race: from Rice University to the moon
14. Democrats
take back the White House: the Jimmy Carter presidency
V.
Problems abroad
15. The
Iran Hostage
Crisis
16.
War In the
Middle East:
the Six Day War (’67) & the Yom Kippur War (’73)
17. Peace in the
Middle East:
the Camp David Accords
18.
Nixon’s Foreign Policy: Salt I; Détente, China
VI.
Art & Music
19. Pop Art:
Andy Warhol
20. Rock
Music: The British Invasion & the Beatles
21. Rock
Music: Woodstock
22. Folk
Music: Bob Dylan; Joan Baez;
Paul Simon and Arthur Garfunkel;
etc.
23.
Surfer Music: the Beach Boys, etc.
24.
Psychedelic/Heavy Rock: the Doors, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis
Joplin, etc.
VII.
TV and Movies
25. Movies in
the 1960s: Easy Rider, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Psycho, etc.
26. TV in the
1960s: Dick Van Dyke Show; Beverly Hillbillies; Green Acres, the
Addams Family, etc
27. TV in the
1970s:
Educational:
Sesame Street
Diversity: Chico
and the Man
Social Values:
All in the Family
Independent
Women: the Mary Tyler Moore Show
VIII. Sports
28. The Super
Bowl: What happened before the super bowl? How did it come
about? What was the 1st super bowl?
29. NCAA: a
dynasty, the UCLA Bruins
30. The 1968
Olympics: Why were they important to the Civil Rights Movement?
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