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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Companies was established in Iraq 1960
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Richard Nixon became the 37th President of the U.S.
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A court case against students wearing black arm bands protesting the vietnam war
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Inflation rates were alarmingly rising during the 1970;s
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A federal organization proposed by Nixon to monitor national pollution control standards
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A period of improved relations between the US and the Soviet Union
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National Rifle Association whos primary goal it to protect and defend the US constitution
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The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. International treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union
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It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its foes, and the visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides.
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Democratic HQ in Washington DC was broken into by people hired by Richard Nixon
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Imperial Presidency is a term used to describe the modern presidency of the United States
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President Richard Nixon resigned from office
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Iraq declared that they would not sell or trade oil to the us. By the end of the Embargo in 1974, oil prices raised from $3 per barrel to $12 per barrel
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An Act to provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants, and for other purposes
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Richard Nixon resigned from office before he was fired over the Watergate scandal
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Ford became the 38th president of the US after Richard Nixon resigned
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Caused by the mass oil production in major industrial nations (US, Canada, Exc) and the OPEC oil embargoes
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She was a feminist who protested against the Equal Rights Amendment
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Jimmy Carter is voted into office and becomes the 39th president of the US
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Jimmy Carter signs the Panama Canal Treaty, giving control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians in 2000
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agreements between Israel and Egypt that led the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries
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Overthrow of the Iranian leader who was liked by the US
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Nuclear Meltdown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
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Iranian religious leader
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A 444 days long event where 52 men and women were held hostage in the US embassy in Iran
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To examine the federal government from top to bottom and produce a detailed, practical conservative policy vision was the Heritage Foundation's job
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The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan spurred Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum on January 20, 1980 that the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month.
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Workers from Mexico came to work in the US in many southern states.
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Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter by a landslide in the 1981 election to become the 40th President of the US
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Congress deregulated the banking and natural gas industries and lifted ceilings on interest rates
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A feminist who fought against the Equal Rights Act in 1981
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Intelligence reports surfaced that Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi had plans to assassinate American diplomats in Rome and Paris
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Two Libyan jets fired on U.S. aircraft participating in a routine naval exercise over international waters of the Mediterranean claimed by Libya
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America and several other countries invaded Grenada who was becoming a third world country
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan
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The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War.
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3 million illegal immigrants were given the right to be citizens
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Political scandal that traded weapons to Iran for hostages during a weapons embargo
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General Secretary of the Communist Party
