NixonFord

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Nixon/Ford

• Timeline

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1968

• Richard Nixon, from California, elected the 37th
  President of The United States.

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1969

• Apollo 11 Moon landing, making Neil Armstrong the
  first man to walk on the surface of the Moon.
• Three day rock concert in Woodstock New York,
  highlights the Counterculture Movement.

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1971

• Supreme Court rules that busing is a proper way
  to achieve public school integration.

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1972

• Terrorism hits the Munich Olympics. 11 Israelis
  killed by terrorists.

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1972-Domestic Issues

• To fight stagflation, Nixon implements mandatory
  price and wage controls.
• Nixon wins re-election in largest margin of
  victory ever.

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1972-Foreign Issues

• President Nixon starts formal talks and visits
  with Communist China.
• The U.S. U.S.S.R. sign SALT I TreatyThe first
  to limit nuclear weaponry.

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1973

• Senate hearings conducted after 7 men are
  arrested for breaking into the Democratic
  Headquarters at the Watergate Office Building to
  determine what President Nixon knew and when he
  knew it.

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1974

• After United States support of Israel during the
  Yom Kippur Wars, OPEC imposes an oil embargo on
  the United States.

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1974

• President Nixon resigns in the middle of
  impeachment hearings.
• Gerald Ford, from Michigan, becomes the 38th
  President. The only man not elected to the
  Presidency or Vice-Presidency

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1976
America celebrates its bicentennial, 200 years,
of independence with a big birthday bash.
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Social Movements

• NOW is organized to advance political, economic
  and social issues of women in America.
• Led by Cesar Chavez Hispanics started organizing
  to achieve economic and political equality.

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Social Movements

• The American Indian Movement used both the courts
  and force to regain lost lands.
• Environmentalists achieve victory with the
  creation of the EPA by President Nixon.

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The 1970s