By: Christine Sutherland

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70's, 80's and 90's

• By Christine Sutherland
• Andrea Loveless

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Nixon and Vietnam

• Vietnamization
• Pulled 540,000 troops out of Vietnam
• Nixon Doctrine-supply South Vietnam with arms and
  money
• My Lai Massacre (1968)-American troops killed
  women and children of My Lai
• Protests at Kent State and Jackson State College
• Nixon bombed North Vietnam-cease fire on January
  23, 1973

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Nixon and Detente

• Nixon sent Kissinger to China to encourage better
  relations
• Nixon traveled to China in February 1972
• ABM (anti-ballistic treaty)
• SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talk)

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Nixons Programs

• Medicare and Medicaid
• Supplemental Security Income-raised Social
  Security and gave money to disabled
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Clean Air Act
• Endangered Species Act

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Watergate Scandal

• June 17, 1972-5 men from Republican Committee for
  Re-Election of the President caught breaking into
  Watergate and implanting bugs
• Saturday Night Massacre-October 20,
  1973-prosecuter issued subpoena for tapes
• August 5, 1974-Nixon released three tapes
• Nixon resigned before he could be impeached-
  August 9, 1974

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Gerald Ford

• 1974-Pardoned Nixon after Watergate scandal
• Engaged in a joint space mission
• Followed policy of détente
• 1976-Viking landed on Mars

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Jimmy Carter

• (1978)-18 billion tax cut
• September 17, 1978-Anwar Sadat (Egypt) and
  Menachem Begin (Israel) signed accords at Camp
  David
• Signed SALT II-U.S Senate didnt ratify it
• November 4, 1979-Muslim anti-Americans stormed
  into embassy in Tehran and took hostages
• Carter did little to free hostages

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Reagan

• Elected in 1980-former actor- neoconservative
• Day of inauguration hostages released
• March 30, 1981-shot and wounded
• supply side economics-lower individual
  taxes-create new tax-savings plans for small
  investors
• Mass amounts of spending-2 trillion dollar debt
• Widened gap between rich and poor
• Strategic Defense Initiative-took stance against
  USSR

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George Bush Sr.

• Elected in 1988
• 1933-signed START II with Yeltsin-reduce nuclear
  arsenals by 2/3 within ten years
• American With Disabilities Act
• 1922-add 133 billion dollar worth of taxes
• Ordered invasion of Panama-protect canal-Panama
  Canal Crisis
• Disintegration of Soviet Union-Cold War ends

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Bill Clinton

• Elected in 1993
• Appoints Hillary as head of committee to reform
  health care system-failed
• dont ask, dont tell policy
• 1993-Arab terrorists bomb World Trade Center
• 1993-signs Brady Bill-waiting period for the
  purchase of guns
• Whitewater Scandal-improper real estate dealings

• Led Reconciliation meeting with Yitzhak Rabin
  Israel) and Yasir Arafat (Palestine)
• Bombing of Oklahoma City Building- 1995
• Monica Lewinsky Scandal