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Raised awareness of pesticides' detrimental effect on the evironment and animals, triggered an environmental movement
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Ruled that women could have an abortion
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National Gay Task Force founded, to protest anti-gay laws
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Nixon resigned, with Gerald R. Ford assuming the presidency.
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Granted tribes control of federal aid programs on reservations
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Christopher Lasch's book summed up his view of the culture of the time period, criticizing "yuppies".
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A partial metldown of nuclear reactors in Pennsylvania released radioactive gases and turned environmentalists against nuclear power.
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Hostages seized from US embassy in Tehran
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Gorbachev and Reagan signed Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which removed missiles.