An Age of Limits

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Chapter 32
An Age of Limits
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Richard Nixon

• 1969 became President of the United States
• New Conservatism

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New Federalism

• To distribute some of the Federal power down to
  the states and Local Governments

Revenue Sharing State and Local Governments could
spend their federal money however they see fit
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Nixons Southern Strategy

• Appeal to the Southern Democrats that had become
  disenchanted with the democratic philosophies
• Slow down Integration
• Controversy over the Busing Programs

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OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Nixon was the Master on Foreign Policy
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger
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Realpolitik
Comes from German meaning political Realism.
Means that Foreign policy regarding a country
should be directly related to the Countries power.
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Detente
This became the policy of the Nixon Administration
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Nixon visits China for the first Time since the
Communist take over in 1949
East Meets West
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Next Nixon Travels behind the Iron Curtain to the
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
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Salt I Treaty
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
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Nixon's Re-Election Campaign
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All The Presidents Men
John Mitchell
John Dean III
John Ehrlichman
H.R.Halderman
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Watergate
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Senate Begins Investigation

• Burglary at the Watergate Hotel
• The Cover up of the Administrations role in the
  burglary
• Testimony All the Presidents Men
• Audio tapes of the Oval Office
• The Saturday Night Massacre
• Spiro Agnew Resigned
• Nixon Nominated Gerald Ford as Vice President

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Gerald Ford is then Appointed the President of
the United States
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Nixon Departing Washington after his Pardon
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Election of 1976

• Jimmy Carter Became President
• Peanut Farmer from Georgia from Plains Georgia

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Carters Issues

• Energy Crisis
• Economy is in a slump
• Detente
• Civil Rights and Affirmative Action
• Human Rights
• Panama
• Middle East

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OPEC issued an Oil embargo on the US, cause a gas
shortage that created long lines at the gas pumps
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SALT II
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Carter Signed a treaty that turned control of the
Panama Canal back over to the Panamanians on
December 31, 1999.
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Conflict in the Middle East
Menacham Begin Israel
Anwar El Sadat Egypt
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Camp David Accords
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Environmentalism
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The Defining moment for Carter
Iranian Hostage Crisis
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Ayatollah Khomeini led a Muslim revolt to over
throw the Shah of Iran. The United States gave
asylum to the Shah and infuriated the Iranian
Muslim
Shah
Ayatollah
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Students Broke into the US Embassy in Iran and
took 52 American Hostages and Held them Captive
for 444 days
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad