Moving towards modern-day America

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Moving towards modern-day America
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President Johnson
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Revisiting the Great Society

• The BIG 4
• Aid to education
• Medical care for the elderly
• Immigration reform
• New voting rights bill

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Education Society

• War on poverty
• Office of economic opportunity (2billion)
• 1billion for foothills of Appalachian mtns
• Medicare (elderly) Medicaid (poor)
• Federal money to schools
• Head Start
• National endowments for the arts humanities
• Dept. of Transportation HUD

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Immigration

• Immigration Nationality Act of 1965
• Eliminates the quota system
• Strict limits on Western Hemisphere for the 1st
  time
• Family unificationallowing family members of
  naturalized Americans
• Opens door to many more immigrants esp. Asians

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Civil Rights

• Civil right act of 1964 (desegregates all public
  facilities)
• Title VII-1965 (on the basis of sex)
• EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity commission)
• Affirmative Action

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The Politics of President Nixon
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World Affairs

• Communist China (Détente)
• Henry Kissinger
• Soviet Union
• SALT I
• Nixon Doctrine
• Crises in the Middle East
• Yom Kippur War
• OPEC

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Domestic policy and demise

• Reduction of the Great Society
• Creation of the EPA OSHA
• Clean Air Act of 1970
• Stagflation
• Title IX (opens athletic opportunities to
  females)
• Educational Amendments Act of 1972
• Watergate
• Vice President Spiro Agnew
• U.S. v Richard M. Nixon
• Impeachment hearings

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The Supreme Court

• The Warren court and the Burger court
• Retirement of Chief Justice Earl Warren
• Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist
• Court legislation
• Engel v Vitale
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg
• Roe v Wade

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President Gerald Ford
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Fords Downfall

• Presidential pardon
• Helsinki Accords
• Recession of 1974 1975
• Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974

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President Jimmy Carter
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Carter Politics

• Energy and economics
• Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Education
• Voluntary constraint
• Fuel shortage
• Malaise speech

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Lines at the gas stations
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World Affairs

• Advocate of Human Rights
• Soviet Union
• SALT II
• Afghanistan
• The Panama Canal
• Egyptian-Israelis Peace TreatyCamp David
  Accords
• Opening the door to China
• Iranian hostage crisis
• The Shah of Iran
• Ayatollah Khomeini
• Boycott of the Summer Olympic Games
• Election of 1980
• Jimmy Carter since his Presidency

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President Ronald Reagan
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The Excess of the 80s
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Big Hair
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Reaganomics

• supply-side economics
• Economic Recovery Tax Act
• Tax Reform Act
• deregulation of natural gas production
• cutting funding for domestic programs
• Are the Yuppies running the country?

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Reagan-Pro Big Business and Govt

• Air Traffic controllers strike
• S L Scandal

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Reagans foreign policy

• Star Wars
• Reagan Doctrine
• Latin America
• Middle East
• Bombing in Lebanon
• South Africa and Apartheid
• Thawing of the cold war
• Meeting with Gorbachev
• Glasnost Perestroika
• START

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The Cold War Thaws
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Bombing of the Marine barracks in Beruit
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The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
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Scandals in the White House (again)

• Iran-Contra hearings
• Oliver North
• President Reagan in the later years
• The Election of 1988

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Lt. Col. Oliver North
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President George Bush
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Bushs domestic agenda

• The Veto President
• Americans with Disabilities Act

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Foreign Events during the 1980s-1990s

• The fall of the Soviet Union
• The Berlin Wall comes down
• Students rally at Tiananmen Square
• The Persian Gulf War
• Saddam Hussein

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The Election of 1992

• William Jefferson Clinton (D)
• George Bush (R)
• Ross Perot (I)

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William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton

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Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Clintons Domestic Policy

• Americorps
• Health Care Reform Plan
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Dont ask, dont tell policy
• Oklahoma city bombing
• NAFTA

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Scandal in the White House(again, again, again)

• White water scandal
• Paula Jones scandal
• Monica Lewinsky
• Special Investigator
• Kenneth Starr

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Foreign affairs in the 1990s

• Bosnia
• Kosovo
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Terrorism
• Kenya and Tanzania
• Iraq
• Desert Fox

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The Economy in the 1990s

• Large stock market gains
• Booming business in IT
• The Internet
• Computer geeks turn millionaires!
• Steve Jobs
• Bill Gates
• Michael Dell

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The Election of 2000

• George W. Bush (R)
• Albert Gore (D)
• Pat Buchanan (I)
• Ralph Nadar (I)
• Disputed Election Returns

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George W. Bush
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The Bush Family
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President George W. Bush

• Politics and policy
• Tax Rebate
• Ongoing war on terrorism
• September 11th attacks
• Restructuring the federal government
• The creation of HomeLand Security

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Topics in recent history

• Terrorism and the hatred of Americans
• The September 11th Attacks
• Biological and chemical warfare
• Energy crisis-will we have enough?
• High gas prices
• Environmental issues-are we destroying our world?
• Going green
• School violence
• Columbine
• Legislative issues-One Nation Under God
• Legalization of Gay Marriages

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Homelessness
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Urban renewal of NYC
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The way things were
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September 11th
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U.S. Marines in Afghanistan
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Bombing of Baghdad 2003
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Historic Election 2008