1972 – 1979

1. 1910 - 1920

a. WWII

i. Women had right to to vote

2. 1930 – 1940

a. Great Depression

i. Increasing gap between rich and poor

ii. Less consumption power

b. New Deal

i. Create jobs

ii. Know two specific programs

1. Hoover dam

2. Tennesse valley etc

c. WWII

3. 1950

a. Cold war with Russia

i. Competitively of building of nuclear bombs

ii. Arms race

iii. Cause of cold of war

1. Annomisty with capitalism and communism

2. Marshall plan

3. Neto

4. Nuclear bombs

4. Late 1950 – 1960

a. Civil rights movement

i. American soldiers who fought in Vietnam didn’t receive rights

 b. Cause

i. Rosa parks

ii. Malcom X

1. Violent

a. Any means to achieve fairness

b. Segregationist

c. Argued against once blacks they get rich, they will

obtain respect

d. Urged against blacks going to white schools

iii. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. Ghandi’s approach to peaceful resolution

2. Assimilation within society

Chapter 27 Reconsidering National Priorities

1. Triangular Diplomacy

a. The Triangle: U.S., Russia and China

b. Nixon first U.S. President to visit China (1972)

i. Not invited but went anyway

ii. Then invited by Mao Shi Dong

1. Talked about diplomatic diplomacy

2. Ping pong

c. Initiates détente with Soviets

i. Russia jumps in

ii. Wants peaceful friendly relationships

2. Scandal in the White House

a. June 17, 1972: Nixon’s reelection campaign breaks into Democratic

National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel

b. Investigative reporting by Woodward and Bernstein

 i. Constantly threatened

ii. Journalism becomes 4th power

1. Executive, Legislative, Judicial

c. August 9, 1974: Nixon resigns

i. Cornered no other option but to quit

ii. Caught by his own trap

1. Recorded his own voice that found himself guilty

iii. Innocence Lost

1. President used to be trusted father figure

2. People no longer trust President or Politicians

iv. US people angered that he quit

1. Gave victor sign before he left the white house

3. The end of the Long Boom

a. “Stagflation”

i. Definition

1. High inflation, plus prices of all goods are going up

2. High unemployment rate

ii. Causes

1. War spending

2. Gap between rich and poor widens (common people)

a. Purchasing power less

b. Production stopped

c. Employees let go

b. U.S. corporations move jobs to Mexico

i. Maquiladoras

1. Corps move to Mexico use Mexican laborers

 2. No tax

3. No labor unions

ii. Anti-immigrant sentiments

iii. Beginning of a serious Globalization

1. Jobs are moving away

2. We do not have a job

4. The Oil Embargo

a. Israel seizes control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

i. Growing oil dependencies

b. 6 years later, Egypt and Syria attack Israel on Yom Kippur

c. October, 1973: OPEC begins embargo on selling oil to the U.S. or

western European nations that supported Israel in the war

i. Harm American interest

5. Congressional Power Reasserted

a. War Powers Act of 1973: President cannot wage war for more than 90
days without consent of Congress

i. Lyndon Johnson

1. Lied to public about ship being attacked

2. Sent troops without consent

6. “I Will Never Lie to You”

a. Jimmy Carter wins Presidency in 1976

b. Moralistic views and a desire to balance the federal budget

c. Takes moralistic views

7. Rise of a Peacemaker

a. Promotion of human rights

b. Signs treaties giving Panama sovereignty over canal

c. Camp David Accords

8. The War on Waste

a. “The Moral equivalent of war”: conservation of energy

b. Department of Energy

c. Tax incentives for development of alternative sources of energy

d. Revolution in Iran

9. New Opportunities in Education, the Workplace, and Family Life

a. Education: Number of women law students increases by 35% in 10

years

b. Women as police officers, construction workers, doctors and lawyers

i. Women had hard time finding husbands with equal jobs

10.Regend

a. Too much government

b. New Trend

i. Actors being presidents

ii. Smart people cannot be president

c. Cabinet filled with people who opposed government

i. Their idea was distained

ii. Close down agencies

iii. Did not want to make government more efficient but to get rid
of it

iv. Air controllers

1. Fired all controllers who went on strike

2. Get rid of them

a. More people to come

d. Recession

i. Can the government affect the economy

e. Deregulate everything that could be

 1. Bank regulations

a. More freedom of loans

ii. Donald regan

1. Financial advisor (Goldman Sacks)

a. no regulations

i. cause of recession now

2. Ninja loans

a. No money, no assets

b. Small banks take these bad loans and sell it to big

banks

c. Goldman sacks made money when stocks go down

or up

f. Reagan

i. Stupid or controlled by the government

ii. Mutually Assured Destruction

1. China and Russia have enough nukes to blow up the war

2. Star wars defense

a. Star wars evil empire

b. Connect to public on those points

3. People need to start research on defense

a. Us starts

b. Then Soviets ramps it up

i. Spend too much, no money

ii. Countries begin to pull away

1. Become non-communist

c. Reagan can credited to fall of soviet union

d. Communist way of life is not great

 i. Will end itself through its own weight

iii. Built up the largest deficit in history

1. 500 million a year for 8 years

2. In dollars value, and real value

3. More money than any other administration in history

4. Ends era of big spending

11.GHW Bush

a. Iraqi invaded Kuwait

i. Sadam Hussain invades Kuwait

ii. 4th or 5th oil producer for US

iii. With support of united nations

1. Attacks and kicks out Iraqi within 100 hours

2. Chase to border and with 30 – 50 miles of Baghdad

a. Not going to invade Baghdad

i. Can not invade another county for social

reason

ii. They surrender

iii. Before they leave they set fire to oil wells

b. Did not help Kuwait in the name democracy

i. Rather for the oil

b. Not doing well in polls

i. Economy

1. Unemployment not high

2. Little inflation

12.Bush Loses to Clinton

a. Clinton
 i. Well spoken, Likeable, Handsome

ii. Can relate to average person

iii. Did not like because he

1. Avoided draft

2. Admitted to smoking

a. Joint to mouth

b. But didn’t smoke

b. Lied about one of the white house interns

i. Monica louisenci

1. “did not have sex with that woman”

ii. Impeached

1. But not removed from office

a. High crime or misdemeanor

b. House determined he committed a misdemeanor

by lying to congress

c. Trail by jury

c. Liberals thought he was conservative

i. Conservative thought he was liberal

1. Choose Al Gore as his vice president

d. Reduces deficient to 0

e. Iraqi war

i. Don’t ask don’t tell

1. Gays in the military

13.2000

a. Gore vs bush

i. Bush was a cheerleader

ii. Closest race ever

 b. Florida electoral votes

i. Determines balance of vote

ii. Hanging chad

c. Vote

i. Goes to Florida supreme court

1. Revote to counties

ii. Supreme court

1. Orders to keep vote they way it is

2. Bush wins

3. US lost with supreme court get involved

4. First time US supreme court involved in states voting

a. One time only decision

14.9/11

a. Twin towers get attacked

b. They narrow it down to

i. al-quida

ii. afaganhistan

c. George Bush

i. Looks for reason to attack sadam hussian

1. Nuclear weapons

2. Weapons of mass destruction

ii. In the News

1. United Nation

a. Still developing them weapons of mass destruction

2. Al-quida linked with sadam hussain

3. Colin Powell goes in front of UN on tv

 a. Has proof of selling of arms to Sadam Hussain

4. Bush administration put out info

a. New York Times would publish this information

b. White house leaked information to newspaper

iii. Us goes into Iraq

1. Iraqi army is let go free

a. Sent home with guns

b. Keep army in tact

i. Officers in tact

ii. So they do not revolt against them

c. Soldiers

2. Public opinion is supported

a. Public opinion poll

i. 1500 out of all the people in the US

3. 500000 iraqi killed vs 3000 US soldiers killed

4. Created tremendous deficit

a. Lead to downfall of banks

b. Unmentioned costs

i. Suicide deaths not counted in casualties

5. Cost of war was supposed to be paid by the oil

6. Save oil companies

a. Us and European oil companies need profit

b. Iraq still needs to pump oil

7. No matter who controls the oil

a. Oil the will still be on the market

d. For every oil sold by other nations other nations are getting out money
15.Obama wins election

a. Historic 1st African American elected

16.Sarah Palin

a. Wanted to go back to old government

i. Small government

17.Diversity

a. If no diversity

b. Its black and white