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Gay Liberation Movement
-Police raid on the Stone Wall, a gay bar in New York city
-encouraged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical action -
The Environmental Movement
-Led by Theodore Roosevelt
-20 million people participated
1st Earth Day was in 1970 -
Richard Nixon's Foreign Policy
-policy that would reduce tensions of Cold War
-promised to bring Americans together after the turmoil that negatively impacted their lives. -
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Detente with China & Soviet Union
-a reduction of Cold War Tensions
-Nixon negotiated with Chinese leaders about diplomatic exchanges and to imrpove relations and future conflicts.
-Recognized communist government in 1979 -
The Burger Court
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Clean Air Act-passed
-more social stress and fragmentation
-controls air pollution at a level. -
Nixon's Economic Policies
-U.S economy faced economic slowdown and high inflation
-Nixon reduced federal spending, which caused unemployment
-took the dollar off the gold standard -
Vietnamization
-will withdraw U.S troops from Vietnam and give money, training, and weapons to Southern Vietnam for the war.
*Nixon Doctrine-U.S would get involved in defense of its allies. -
White House Abuses
-Nixon hired a group of white house officials to break into the White housethat resulted as an illegal activity. -
Congress passes the Title IX
-It was a statue that was built in order to end sex discrimination in all schools that were under federal funding
-girls received the same opportunities as boys (Ex:sports).
-This event was a rise in societal status of women. -
The Election of 1972
-Democrats won: Senator George McGovern of South Dakota
-Ran an anti war campaign between Nixon (republican) and McGovern (democratic). -
Endangered Species Act
-signed by Richard Nixon
-protected species from extinction -
Watergate Investigation
U.S V. Nixon!
Nixon denied knowing anything and refused to hand in tape recordings. -
United States V. Nixon
-important event because of the Watergate Scandal
8-0 votes against Nixon
-This event limited the power of any President -
Genocide in Cambodia
-Cambodia fell to Khmer Rouge, who was a radical communst and killed over a million people -
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Jimmy Carter's Presidency
This was an effort to end imperial presidency.
-unique when people saw that he walked to the white house rather than driving in a limo.
-impressed everyone worldwide
-Jimmy Carter:democratic -
Camp David Accords
-It was a peace settlement between Egypt and Israel
-Egypt was the first Arab nation to recoginize the nation of Israel -
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Iran and Hostage Crisis
-The Islamic fundamentalists overhtrew the Shah, who led the Iranian government.
(Antiwar sentiment)
-Caused Carter to become frustrated. -
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American Society in Transition
-Social changes were greater significance than politics.
-Growth of Immigration
Undocumented Immigrants- about 12 million were in the U.S illegaly
-There were demands for minority rights -
American Indian Movement
-encouraged American Indians to leave reservationsists and assimilate into urban areas