19: 1970s Malaise

19: 1970s Malaise

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Love Canal Collection -
Love Canal Collection -
An introduction to the history and background of the events that occured at Love Canal. Includes two chronologies of events, scanned documents of the Ecumenical Task Force, database of Love Canal articles, and a glossary of definitions for individuals, organizations, businesses, government agencies, chemical waste dump sites, and major issues relating to the Love Canal and other local environmental disaster areas.
#US History#US History II#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·library.buffalo.edu·
Love Canal Collection -
The Living Room Candidate - Commercials - 1976 Election Carter vs. Ford
The Living Room Candidate - Commercials - 1976 Election Carter vs. Ford
The site includes a searchable database of television commercials and features commentary, historical background, election results, and navigation organized by year, type of ad, and issue
#US History#US History II#President Carter#President Ford#primary source#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·livingroomcandidate.org·
The Living Room Candidate - Commercials - 1976 Election Carter vs. Ford
"Original Godspell Cast on The Today Show" - YouTube
"Original Godspell Cast on The Today Show" - YouTube
A slice of the seventies counter-culture crossover into popular culture.  The original cast of the Broadway musical Godspell appear on a minstream morning program.  If we take just this example to understand the 70s is it accurate?  Does this mean we overstate the flappers of the 20s?
#primary source#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·youtube.com·
"Original Godspell Cast on The Today Show" - YouTube
WashingtonPost.com: Nixon Forces Firing of Cox; Richardson, Ruckelshaus Quit
WashingtonPost.com: Nixon Forces Firing of Cox; Richardson, Ruckelshaus Quit
Instead of trying to teach Watergate by lecturing the story of the break-in, the plumbers, CREEP, etc. - why not just give students this newspaper article and have them generate questions. If they can't generate a healthy list of questions from this article, no amount of story telling and lecture is going to help them.
#lesson plan#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·washingtonpost.com·
WashingtonPost.com: Nixon Forces Firing of Cox; Richardson, Ruckelshaus Quit
Gerald R. Ford: Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Reporting on the State of the Union.
Gerald R. Ford: Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Reporting on the State of the Union.
What is going on in a country when the presidents says "I must say to you that the state of the Union is not good"?
I must say to you that the state of the Union is not good
Now, I want to speak very bluntly. I've got bad news, and I don't expect much, if any, applause.
#President Ford#primary source#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·presidency.ucsb.edu·
Gerald R. Ford: Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Reporting on the State of the Union.
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin' - YouTube
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin' - YouTube
After Stevie Wonder left Motown records and Berry Gordy gave him the free reign he had given Marvin Gaye, his string of pop and soul hits had strong political messages. None was quite as direct as this direct attack on Richard Nixon. Play this to give students a funky start to your seventies class, but remember to project the lyrics so they can see how clear this message really is. Hold the trivia that it's the Jackson 5 (including Michael) in the background.
#historical music#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·youtube.com·
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin' - YouTube
Cold War Museum - Chile 1973
Cold War Museum - Chile 1973
Have your students used ColdWar.org? This article, written by a high school student and published by the site suggests that the US might have played a role in the 1973 coup in Chile. Yet the CIA not only admits its role in the removal of Allende from power, it provides all of the details. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol47no3/article03.html
#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·coldwar.org·
Cold War Museum - Chile 1973
CIA Machinations in Chile in 1970 — Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Machinations in Chile in 1970 — Central Intelligence Agency
This article from the CIA itself shows the manner in which released documents involving American actions in Chile in 1973 are used to write history again. At first brush it was through the denial of any role, than a popular conception (perhaps) of a major role in which American actions overseas contradicted foundational principles of democracy at home. This article tries to find a path between the two
#secondary sources#primary source#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·cia.gov·
CIA Machinations in Chile in 1970 — Central Intelligence Agency
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - July 16, 1974 - onair suicide
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - July 16, 1974 - onair suicide
Students can get a first-hand look at 70s malaise in one issue of a Florida newspaper in 1974. Right alongside the front page story of revelations of President Nixon's role in the break-in to Pentagon Papers figure, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, is the story of a local news reporter who committed suicide, live on the air. Some americans seeing such news on a daily basis grew more and more despondent about the future of their country. Give this to students and ask them to find a connection between the two front page stories - would they see it that way?
#primary source#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·news.google.com·
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - July 16, 1974 - onair suicide
The Greatest Play In Baseball - Rick Monday Saves U.S. Flag - YouTube
The Greatest Play In Baseball - Rick Monday Saves U.S. Flag - YouTube
Four minute video from the baseball game in which outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs stops a man and his son from burning an American flag on the field in the middle of the game. The video also includes interviews with Monday and other players of this event that demonstrates the illustrates the decisiveness of the 1970s. This event occurred the months before the Bicentennial.
#8th Grade Social Studies#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·youtube.com·
The Greatest Play In Baseball - Rick Monday Saves U.S. Flag - YouTube
Oliver Sipple - Wikipedia, - First he saves a president's life, then his homosexuality is made public
Oliver Sipple - Wikipedia, - First he saves a president's life, then his homosexuality is made public
Oliver Sipple saved Gerald Ford's life by deflecting the would-be assassin's arm just as the gun was aimed at Ford. Sipple was an ex-marine and Vietnam War vet whose life experience after this 1974 event was shaped by the manner in which his homosexuality was made public by his heroism.
#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)
·en.wikipedia.org·
Oliver Sipple - Wikipedia, - First he saves a president's life, then his homosexuality is made public