counterculture
Grateful Dead
Woodstock
LSD
Watts Riots
Freedom Summer
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Air Act of 1970
Resources Recovery Act of 1970
Pesticides Control Act of 1972
Richard Nixon
Great Society
unproductive social experiments
Civil Rights Act of 1964
resignation
Head Start
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Rolling Thunder
Malcolm X
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
body count of enemy dead
Pentagon Papers
Vietnam War
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Vietnamization
antiwar movement
burning draft cards
black power
Kent State University
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Election of 1968
inflation
unemployment
stagflation
federal spending
social welfare programs
New Right
conservatives vs liberals
Watergate
Jimmy Carter
Christian values
Iranian hostage crisis
domestic energy production
supply-side economics
End of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall (and Eastern European communism)
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Afghanistan
human rights
affirmative action programs
Panama Canal
worldwide shortages of oil
Religious Right
Sandra Day O'Connor
Geraldine Ferraro