Printable American History Readings with Questions
 
 
Decades of Change: 1960-1980
 
 
 
1. The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1980
 
2. The Women's Movement
 
3. The Latino Movement
 
4. The Native-American Movement
 
5. The Counterculture
 
6. Environmentalism
 
7. Kennedy and the Resurgence of Big Government Liberalism
 
8. Kennedy and the Cold War
 
9. The Space Program
 
10. Death of a President
 
11. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
 
12. The War in Vietnam
 
13. The Election of 1968
 
14. Nixon, Vietnam, and the Cold War
 
15. Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats
 
16. The Ford Interlude
 
17. The Carter Years
 
 
 
 
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Text courtesy of the U.S. State Department,
Bureau of International Information Programs, 2005