Unit 3: Youth Culture and protests of the 1960s and 1970s- Hodder 155-166 Flashcards
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Key question: Youth culture & protests in the USA
Why, in what ways and with what results did the young in the USA rebel?
What caused student protests?
Civil rights movement, conservative university authorities, Vietnam War, inspirational president, demographic change (1960s)
HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee, which pursued Communists in the 1940s and 1950s and others considered to threaten internal security in the 1960s and the 1970s.
What occurred in May 1960
thousands of students demonstrated against HUAC hearings in San Francisco (local sympathy for civil rights movement)
What occurred in the University of Cali at Berkeley in 1964?
Student Radicalism (prior to this), 1964- the university authorities tried to restrict the distribution of political literature on campus
FSM?
Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement
Leader of FSM?
Mario Savio
What did Berkeley protests trigger?
nationwide student protests
What did students argue about universities?
Were impersonal, bureaucratic, and tried to regulate student behavior.
When do a great # of protests start at Columbia University, NY?
1968
Beat Generation
Post-WWII writers who rejected materialism and experimented sexually and with drugs
Counterculture?
Alternative lifestyle to that of the dominant culture.
Who established the SDS?
Beat Generation and student participation in the Civil Rights Movement, Tom Hayden and other university of Michigan students (inspired by 1930s’ working-class radicals).
SDS?
Students for a Democratic Society
When was SDS established?
1960
New Left
Term used by SDS to differentiate themselves from the Communist Old Left of the 1930s/
What anti-war demonstration drew national attention?
SDS’s 1965 demonstration in DC= Concerning the Vietnam War
Yippies
Radical student group that wanted to pit the politics of freedom and disorder against the machine-dominated politics of the Democratic Party at Chicago in 1968.
Who organized the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (August 1968)
The Moba, and Abbie Hoffman’s (Yippies)
Moratorium
In this context, suspension of normal activities to facilitate nationwide anti-Vietnam War protests in 1969.
Middle America
A term invented by the media to describe ordinary, patriotic, middle-income US citizens.
Why was the New Left a failure?
Authorities clearly not going to grant any of their demands, SDS—called for violent revolution, some SDS members lost interest because of Nicons end of draft, Some members retreated into communes and/or religion
Acid, abortion, and amnesty
Republicans smeared Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern as being in favor of legalizing LSD and abortion, and pardoning Vietnam War draft dodgers
Neoconservatism
Ideology combining traditional conservatism with greater faith in the free market.
