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EOCT #250-End
Anti War Movement
• College campuses• End the draft• Bring troops home• Tactics: sit-ins, marches, burning draft cards,
refusing to serve
Women’s Movement• National Organization of Women NOW• Gloria Steinem• Equality in employment, political/social equality• 1982 Equal Rights Amendment failed by 3 states
United Farm Workers MovementCesar Chavez
• Unionized farm workers
Grape Boycott
• MLK/nonviolence• 3 weeks/35 pounds• Wages and benefits
Environmental Movement
• 1962 Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring– Water Quality Act
• 1970 nationwide celebration• 10,000 schools/2000 colleges participated
EPAEnvironmental Protection Agency
• 1970 created by Nixon• Limits pollution, conducts environmental
research, assists state and local government clean ups
Conservative Movement
• Republican Barry Goldwater– Ran against LBJ 1964– Platform: anti-Great Society programs and escalate
our role in Vietnam– Sell the TVA– Limit Social Security retirement benefits
Nixon’s New Federalism
• Republicans are Conservative– Limit federal powers over social welfare programs
and make them state responsibilities
1971 Nixon Visits China• Sought greater
scientific cultural and trade agreements
• Capitalize on China’s 10 year feud with the USSR
Nixon’s Watergate Scandal
• Attempt to cover up a burglary of the Democratic Party offices in the Watergate apartment complex
• Republicans spied on the Democrats for the 1972 elections
• 1972 Nixon won• 1974 Nixon resigned
Roe v. Wade
• Woman’s right to choose whether to have an abortion
• constitutional right to privacy
California v. Bakke
• Gave constitutional protection to affirmative action programs
• Schools can use race as one factor in admissions decisions but cannot use quotas
President Gerald Ford
• 2 years president never elected to be VP or President
• Pardoned Nixon• Ended Vietnam• Unemployment + inflation = recession
Carter Administration
• Camp David Accords• Iranian Revolution• Iranian Hostage Crisis
Camp David Accords
• Camp David Accords– Presidential retreat in MD– Brought together Egypt & Israel over Sinai
Peninsula– Gives Israel legitimacy from Muslim world
1978 Iranian Revolution
• Iranians replaced the Shah (king) “friendly” to the U.S. with a Muslim religious leader (Ayatollah) that was “unfriendly” to the U.S.
• U.S. accepts Shah for “medical treatment”
Iranian Hostage Crisis
• Iran’s angry over our acceptance of the Shah• 52 American captives/444 days• Released when Reagan was elected• Nurtured anti American sentiment throughout
the Middle East
Reagan Administration 80s
• Conservative-shrink size of government
• Reaganomics• Iran-Contra Scandal• Collapse of USSR
• Economic policy• Budget cuts, tax cuts, increase in defense
spending• Hurt lower income Americans• Led to recession
ReaganIran-Contra Scandal
• Sold weapons to Iran (our enemy)• Used money to fund Contra rebels in
Nicaragua who were trying to overthrow their government
End of the Cold War
• Collapse of Soviet Union: easing of Soviet controls over its citizens led to the secession of 14 Russian states
• Reunification of Germany “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Bill Clinton
• Democrat• NAFTA• Impeachment
NAFTA
• North American Free Trade Agreement• U.S./Canada/Mexico• Lowered trade barriers
Clinton Impeachment
• Whitewater and Lewinski Scandal• Impeachment-perjury and obstruction of
Justice• Senate- “not guilty”
2000 Presidential ElectionBush v. Gore
• Popular vote-Gore• Electoral College vote-Bush• A minority of the population can control of majority
of the electoral votes : Get rid of electoral college???
George W. BushForeign Policy
• 9/11 al-Qaeda attack• Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan/Taliban• War on Terrorism• Operation Iraqi Freedom-Iraq/WPD/Hussein
• Able to hold citizens suspected of being terrorists for up to seven days without being charged
• Increased ability to search private communications and personal records
Department of Homeland Security
• 15th cabinet position• Protects the U.S. from terrorist attacks and
responds to natural disasters
Operation Enduring Freedom
• U.S. response to 9/11-invade Afghanistan• Destroy Taliban, government that harbors al-
Qaeda leadership and Osama bin Laden• Killed May 2, 2011 in Pakistan
Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Search for WMDs, weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein could supply to terrorists
• Overthrew Hussein• New Iraqi government convicted and executed
him in 2006 for crimes against humanity