The Age of Limits

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• The Age of Limits

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•  The Age of Limits
• MAIN THEMES
• How existing social norms were greatly challenged
  and to some extent altered by movements of youth,
  ethnic minorities, and women.
• That President Nixon and his national security
  adviser, Henry Kissinger, believed that stability
  in a "multipolar" world could be achieved only by
  having the United States forge a new relationship
  with China and seek détente with the Soviet
  Union.
• How the scandals collectively known as Watergate
  brought about the downfall of Richard Nixon.
• That President Reagan's optimistic personality
  and his brand of conservatism, which included
  both a reduced role for government in the economy
  and a greater emphasis on military spending,
  combined to spell political success for the
  president and his Republican Party.
• How and why the New Right came to offer a
  significant challenge to the liberal consensus
  that had dominated American politics since the
  New Deal.

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• The Youth Culture
• The Counterculture
• The New Left
• SDS
• Berkeley revolts
• Anti-Militarism
• The Legacy?
• American Foreign Policy
• Political
• Cultural

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• The Mobilization of Minorities
• The Indian Civil Rights Movement
• Latino Activism
• Gay Liberation
• The New Feminism

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Leonard Peltier

• The Indian Civil Rights Movement
• 1953-Termination Policy
• 1968- American Indian Movement (AIM)
• 1973/1890 Wounded Knee

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• Seeds of Indian Militancy

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• The Mobilization of Minorities
• Latino Activism
• 1980 Marielitos Cubans
• Expanded immigration
• 1965 - Immigration Act (no national quotas)
• Cesar Chavez
• La Raza, Unida

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• Gay Liberation
• 1960 - Stonewall Riot
• -Coming Out
• -AIDS
• 1993- Do ask Dont Tell

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• Womens Liberation

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• The New Feminism
• 1960 - NOW
• Failure of Equal Rights Amendment
• The Abortion Controversy
• 1973 - Roe Vs. Wade

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• Politics and Economics Under Nixon
• Domestic Initiatives
• Affirmative Action
• Abolish OEO
• The Third World
• Portugal v. Angola

Richard M. Nixon (Library of Congress)
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• Politics and Economics Under Nixon
• From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court
• Warren Court
• 1962 Engel v. Fink (Prayer in Public School)
• 1966 - Miranda Vs. Arizona (Miranda Warning)
• Rhenquist Court
• 1971 Swann v. Mecklenburg Board of Education
• (Busing)
• 1972 Furman v. Georgia (Capital Punishment)
• 1973 Roe v. Wade
• 1974 - Milliken Vs. Bradley (inter district
  school transfers)

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• Politics and Economics Under Nixon
• The Election of 1972
• George Wallace
• Watergate

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• The Troubled Economy

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• Politics and Economics Under Nixon
• The Nixon Response
• Stagflation
• OPEC

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• The Watergate Crisis
• The Scandals
• The Fall of Richard Nixon

What did the president know and when did he know
it? Senator Howard Baker Our long national
nightmare is over. Gerald Ford
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• Debating the Past WATERGATE

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• Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate
• The Ford Custodianship

Gerald Ford (Library of Congress)
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• The Trials of Jimmy Carter

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• Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate
• Human Rights and National Interests

Jimmy Carter (Library of Congress)
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• Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate
• The Year of the Hostages
• Iranian fundamentalism
• Soviet invasion

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• The Rise of the American Right
• The Sunbelt and Its Politics

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• The Rise of the American Right
• The Tax Revolt
• Religious Revivalism and the Emergence of the New
  Right
• Evangelism
• Christian Right
• Conservatism

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• The Rise of the American Right
• The Campaign of 1980

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• The Reagan Revolution
• Reagan in the White House

Ronald Reagan (Library of Congress)
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• The Reagan Revolution
• Supply-Side Economics

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• The Reagan Revolution
• The Fiscal Crisis
• Deficit Spending
• Tax Cuts
• Cuts on Domestic Spending

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• The Reagan Revolution
• Reagan and the World
• SALT II
• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
• Reagan Doctrine

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• The Reagan Revolution
• The Election of 1984

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• OBJECTIVES
• A thorough study of Chapter 32 should enable you
  to understand
• The reasons for the rise of the New Left and the
  counterculture.
• The problems of American Indians and Hispanics
  and the nature of their protest movements.
• The meaning of the new feminism.
• The Nixon-Kissinger policy for terminating the
  Vietnam War and the subsequent Paris peace
  settlement.
• The changes in American foreign policy
  necessitated by the new perception of the world
  as multipolar.
• The ways in which the Supreme Court in the Nixon
  years began a change to a more conservative
  posture and the reasons for this change.
• The reasons for the decline in the American
  economy in the early 1970s and President Nixon's
  reaction to the decline.
• The significance of Watergate as an indication of
  the abuse of executive power.

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• OBJECTIVES
• A thorough study of Chapter 33 should enable you
  to understand
• The efforts of President Gerald Ford to overcome
  the effects of Richard Nixon's resignation.
• The rapid emergence of Jimmy Carter as a national
  figure and the reasons for his victory in 1976.
• Carter's emphasis on human rights and its effects
  on international relations.
• Carter's role in bringing about the Camp David
  agreement and the impact of this agreement on the
  Middle East.
• Why the United States had so much difficulty in
  freeing the hostages held by Iran and the effect
  of this episode on the Carter presidency.
• The political importance of the rise of the
  Sunbelt and the increasing strength of
  conservative evangelical Christianity.
• The nature of the "Reagan revolution" and the
  meaning of "supply-side" economics.
• The staunchly anticommunist Reagan foreign
  policy.