Study Guide on Gillon, Chapter 9, pp. 209-214, Ch 10 pp. 216-219, Ch 11 253-264

Politics in the Late 60s

• What was the national temper like in 1967?
• What happened during the Tet Offensive? Militarily, who won? Psychologically, who lost?
• How did Walter Cronkite react?
• What were the repercussions of Tet for Lyndon Johnson?
• Why were Democrats excited about Robert Kennedy entering the presidential race?
• What kinds of positions did Robert Kennedy take?
• What was Lyndon Johnson’s surprising decision about the 1968 presidential race? Why did he make this decision?
• How did Martin Luther King’s assassination affect the nation, and affect the presidential race?
• Who was assassinated just three months after King? What did this mean for the presidential race?
• Where was the Democratic Convention in August 1968? What happened in the streets outside the convention hall, and why?
• What happened inside the convention hall, on the issue of the Vietnam War? Which candidate won the Democratic nomination?
• How did most Americans feel about the events surrounding the convention?
• Who was the third party candidate in 1968?
• Who was the Republican nominee? How did he present his campaign for the presidency?
• What disadvantages did the Democratic nominee face?
• Who won, and by how much?

The Spread (Decline?) of the Movement(s) in the Late 60s –Early 70s

pp. 253-264

• Besides blacks, what other racial/ethnic groups became militant in the 1960s and 1970s?
• What happened at Wounded Knee in 1973?
• What did Cesar Chavez organize?
• What was American’s fastest growing minority group in this period?
• Describe the controversy over Hispanic terminology and identity, including how they should fit into the larger Anglo-American society.
• What impact did the 1965 Immigration Act have on Asian immigration? Describe the majority of the new Asian immigrants.
• What is the significance of the Stonewall Inn?
• What was the relationship of the gay rights movement to other “rights” movements?

• What movement does Gillon call “the largest and most powerful social movement of the” 1970s?
• Describe the two wings of the women’s movement. Which wing did NOW belong to? How did women liberationists differ?
• Was the women’s movement mainly integrated (racially)?
• Was the movement stopped dead in its tracks, or did it achieve victories? What does Gillon consider to be accomplishments of the movement?
• How did women’s participation in the workforce change in the 1970s?
• What does the “feminization of poverty” mean?