1970s

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1970s
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MOON LANDING

• July 20, 1969- Apollo 11
• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
• Thats one small step for man, one giant leap
  for mankind

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NIXON ADMINISTRATION

• Silent Majority
• Failure of Great Society
• Law and order
• Southern strategy
• Warren Court- criticized liberal rulings
• Names Warren Burger Chief Justice

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ECONOMIC ISSUES

• High levels of government spending on social
  programs and Vietnam War
• Recession
• Inflation and unemployment both rise- stagflation
• Energy crisis- dependence on foreign oil
• Alaskan pipeline
• OPEC- raises oil prices

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ENVIRONMENT

• EPA- Environmental Protection Agency
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  (OSHA)
• Clean Air Act
• Water Quality Improvement Act
• Increase in nuclear power

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FOREIGN POLICY

• Names Henry Kissinger National Security Adviser
• Realpolitick- practical politics
• Puts national interest first
• Balance of power- Soviet Union, China, Japan,
  Western Europe, and United States

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CHINA

• China and Soviet Union become enemies
• Nixon takes advantage
• 1972- Nixon goes to China
• Works out trade and cultural exchanges

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SOVIET UNION

• 1972- 3 months after visiting China, Nixon goes
  to Soviet Union
• Soviet leader- Leonid Brezhnev
• Promotes trade and cooperation on areas of mutual
  concern
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
• Détente- lessening of tensions

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CHILE

• 1970- Chile elects a Socialist president Salvador
  Allende
• Does not want another Cuba
• Gives support to Allendes opponents
• 1973- Allende killed and army sets up military
  dictatorship

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ISRAEL

• 1967- Six-Day War
• Israel defeats Egypt, Jordan, and Syria
• Soviets help Arabs, U.S. supports Israel
• Prime Minister- Golda Meir
• 1973- Yom Kippur War
• Israel defeats Egypt and Syria

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WATERGATE

• June, 1972- Break-in at DNC offices
• Burglars had ties to White House
• Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of Washington
  Post
• Senate investigation- Sen. Sam Ervin
• Existence of tapes
• Special prosecutor Archibald Cox orders tapes to
  be released

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• Oct. 1973- V.P. Spiro Agnew accused of taking
  bribes
• Agnew resigns, Gerald Ford nominated to be
  Vice-President
• Saturday Night Massacre- Cox is fired
• Facing impeachment- Nixon resigns
• Ford becomes President and V.P. is Nelson
  Rockefeller

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FORD ADMINISTRATION

• Tries to unite country
• Pardons Nixon
• Partial amnesty to draftdodgers
• Tries to fight inflation, but recession continues
• Détente begins to erode
• Mayaguez incident

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ELECTION OF 1976

• Rep. nominate Ford over Ronald Reagan
• Picks Bob Dole for V.P.
• Dem. nominate Jimmy Carter
• Picks Walter Mondale for V.P.
• Carter runs as outsider
• Carter wins

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CARTER ADMINISTRATION

• Changes style of White House
• Economic problems- inflation and unemployment
• Department of Energy- 1977
• Energy problems- Three-Mile Island

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FOREIGN POLICY

• Rejects realpolitik
• Focus on human rights
• Panama Canal Treaties
• South Africa- Apartheid
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Camp David Accords- Egypt and Israel
• Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin

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IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS

• 1979- Islamic fundamentalists overthrow the Shah
  of Iran
• Ayatollah Khomeini becomes leader
• Nov. 1979- Americans are taken hostage
• Apr. 1980- rescue mission fails

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ELECTION OF 1980

• Dem- Carter
• Rep- Ronald Reagan
• Ind.- John Anderson
• Reagan wins

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SOCIAL ISSUES

• Affirmative Action
• California v. Bakke
• Abortion- Roe v. Wade
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Sunbelt