RTF 321C Study Guide - Final Guide: Watergate Scandal, Silent Majority, Space Race
20 Dec 2018
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Recap: golden age classic network television = vertically integrated oligopoly. Vast wasteland = the shows on tv at the time. Jfk"s new frontier discourse, space race, communist/soviet union threat. Vietnam (1964 u. s. sent a lot of troops there in 1955 the war actually began due to lbj) 1968: half a million troops are there. Drafts: young men"s names would be put on a lottery system to be drafted into the war. Ex: vietnam war - 1970: cbs camera rolls as platoon comes under fire. Nixon was supported by the silent majority, the older generation essentially wanted to make america great again . Nixon resigned in 1974 in disgrace because he had operatives break into the democratic headquarters to steal documents (watergate) Was going to get impeached - i"m not a crook . All this upset created the rise of the counterculture, revolution of culture. Hippie: freer aspects from social norms from industry, more with nature.
