The Day After (1983)



Our friends, the Taliban:



Be All That You Can Be! (1986)



Yakoff Smirnoff comedy skit:



We return to Berlin:



The big collapse:

Study terms for the final exam (Textbook)

These are the terms from the textbook. You will have seen other terms in the lectures that also appear in your textbook, but are not listed here. If they were in the lecture, I will still test on them. Of course, your notes and the blog can help you out to formulate a list of lecture terms. Most of what you find here are terms that I did NOT mention in class.

Chapter 23
Containment
Long Telegram (George Kennan)
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Inchon
McCarthyism
HUAC
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Taft-Hartley Bill

Chapter 24
MAD
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Massive Resistance
SNCC
Direct Action

Chapter 25
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Barry Goldwater
Great Society
NOW
AIM
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
silent majority

Chapter 26
detente
Vietnamization
My Lai
Watergate
SDI
Iran-Contra

Ah, the Carter Years: America Comes to Grip With Some Hard Realities

1968 Pontiac GTO ad



1973 OPEC Oil Embargo



A piece when they did away with the 1973 55 MPH Speed Limit in the 1990s



The AMC Gremlin



another Gremlin ad!



Evacuation of the Embassy in Saigon, 30 April 1975



The Embassy in Tehran



Carter's "crisis of confidence" or "malaise" speech.



The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow - Who is missing here (hint: THE USA!)



This after the 1980 Lake Placid Games featuring the "Miracle" hockey upset!



The 1980 Election

And, of course, who could forget Operation Eagle Claw?

The 1970s and Backlash Politics

We've spent a lot of time looking at how media images were important in shaping public opinion and the overall course of events in both the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. By the 1970s, these media images had taken on a new dimension. Combined with the actions of the Warren and Burger Court, these images created an environment ripe for backlash politics.

But first, here is the companion site for the Wallace documentary, which you should have viewed by now. It is back up on Blackboard for two more weeks.

Dirty Harry: Do you feel lucky?



Jerry Falwell: Old Time Christian Gospel Hour



The Congress and the Supreme Court were busy trying to address civil liberties, rights, and poverty during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a lot of their actions, however well intentioned, created a great deal of backlash - the sort of backlash you saw in the Wallace video. Here are just a few topics that we will look at

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
The Fair Housing Act (1968)
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Title IX (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973) Do I even need a link?
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1974)
Section 8 Vouchers (1974)

Guns and Butter

Some videos to go along with today's material:

David Bowie: Panic in Detroit



The 1967 Detroit Riot



Marines at Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive



The Assassination of Martin Luther King




LBJ Announces that he will not run for reelection:

Civil Rights and the Cold War under JFK

The Nixon - Kennedy Debate of 1960:



Here is a LINK to the electoral contest in 1960

Forgive the Mad Men moment, and the overglorification of JFK's speech, but think of this video as a powerful document of the Cold War and why Berlin was so very important symbolically.



The bombing of the 16h Street Baptist Church, Birmingham:

The Birth of the Mall Rat

Here is an interesting video about Midtown Plaza Mall in Rochester, New York - a shopping center opened in 1963 to combat (oh, excuse me, coexist with) suburban growth.



some terms to consider today: baby boom, GI Bill (in education and credit), suburban shopping, Eisenhower Interstates, white flight.