The Age of Disillusionment:

America in the Seventies

I.  Overview

II.  Social Movements

A.  Environmentalism

1.  Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)
2.  Earth Day
3.  Three Mile Island and Nuclear Power

B.  The Women's Liberation Movement and Gay Rights

1.  "Consciousness-raising" Sessions
2.  National Organization for Women (NOW)
3.  Roe v. Wade (1973)
4.  Gay Liberation Movement

C.  Identity Politics

1.  Affirmative Action and Busing
2.  American Indian Movement
3.  The Chicano Movement (Cesar Chavez)
4.  Asian American Movement

III.  The Politics of Resentment

A.  Economic Insecurity

1.  Deindustrialization
2.  Oil Prices
3.  Stagflation

B.  The Conservative Backlash

1.  Proposition 13
2.  Conservative Christians
        a.  The "Moral Majority"

C.  American Politics and Foreign Policy

1.  Richard Nixon Resigns (1974)
2.  Jimmy Carter
3.  The Fall of Saigon (1975) and Poor U.S.-U.S.S.R. Relations
5.  Iran Hostage Crisis

D.  The Public Mood and the 1980 Election

1.  "Mad as Hell"
2.  Ronald Reagan

IV.  Sum-up:  The Culture Wars