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the Great Plains experienced intense soil erosion and dust storms in 1930
-mainly farmers suffered |
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1927 - M.R. started to be built
-Roosevelt's idea in the New Deal - to help build the country |
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March 1931- H.D. built. Biggest concrete structure on Earth.
-dam creates Lake Mead which helps CA produce more food than any other states |
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| WWII takes USA out of Great Depression |
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| Famous black boxer who gave USA hope, he fought against German boxers and Hitlers cruel remarks |
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| Causes of The Great Depression |
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1. Overproduction
2. Unequal Distribution of Wealth
3. Easy Credit
4. Stock Market Speculation |
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| More Causes of The Great Depression |
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1. "Black Tuesday"
2. those who bought their stocks on margin, ended up losing their $
3. Dow Jones - average value of the stock companies |
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| The Fed is the central banking system of the US created in 1913 |
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| 1930- cut imports in 1/2 - reduce trade w Europe |
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| Results of Great Depression |
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1. recession becomes depression
2. US depression will not end until start of WWII
3. global depression will facilitate rise of fascism, nazism, militarism |
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| used radio to promote fascist policies and promote anti-Semitism - 30 million listeners |
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| tax business, wealth redistribution, socialism |
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39 yrs old - gets Polio and is never able to walk again
-cousin to Teddy Roosevelt
-Governor of NY |
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comes to office in 1932 which was the worst time of the G.D.
-USA has lost confidence in the govt. + banks |
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| FDR's way to calm the people down over the radio |
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| Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA) |
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| gives all banks days off allowing histeryia pass and to regroup |
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| FDR's 3 goals with the New Deal |
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1. relief to poor
2. recovery (financially)
3. try and prevent something like this from happening in the future |
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| guide him, legislation that tells him what laws need to be passed |
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| men hired, fed, and paid, to work to enhance nature |
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| 15 major pieces of legislation are passed |
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Social Security Act - everyone has one
Wagner Act -gives unions more powers |
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| increased during the G.D. |
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| Republican unions, still around today |
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| "Sick Chicken Case" court found that executive branch (FDR) had over stepped |
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| Agricultural Adjustment (AAA) |
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raised prices for struggling farmers
Subsidies- $$ from govt. to pay farmers to NOT grow things |
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| Homeowners Loan Corp. (HLC) |
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| to refinance home mortgages currently to prevent foreclosure |
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| grants credit through regional banks and local associations |
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| Germany faces economic collapse |
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| Washington Naval Conference |
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| military conference called by Harding to discuss naval disarment with China, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Britain, Netherlands, and Portugal |
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| people think it's a good idea after they were hit hard by WWI |
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| more extreme version of Nationalism |
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| convinced millions of people that the bankers who had lent money to European allies had been "merchants of death" and had tricked the country into war |
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1935- Outlaws sales of arms
1937- continues sales restrictions |
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| talks about isolating the aggressors to stop aggression |
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| Prime Minister of England |
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allowed the British to come to America with cash, buy supplies, and then take them back to Europe
-FDR is trying to remain neutral and not get back into the war |
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| starts in 1939 - 2 years before USA gets involved |
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| Britain bombed and attacked by Germans |
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| Luthuafa planes are out fired |
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| we give British anything they need to survive but British must pay |
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| agreement that allows the UN to form |
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| brings the US into the war |
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chancellor of Germany
-started WWII with the invasion of Poland |
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elected to get the US out of depression
-goes to congress and asks to declare war on Japan |
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leader of USSR
-leader of communist party
-joined allied side after Hitler invades Russia
-ruled USSR with iron fist |
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fascist - sides with Hitler
-believed Italians were the best
-wanted to create greatness of the Roman Empire |
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prime minister of Great Britain
-allied with US |
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emperor of Japan
-surrendered Japan from the war |
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hero of WWII - created D Day
-supreme allied commander of the Europeans
-becomes president of the 1950s (after Truman) |
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| supreme allied commander of the pacific |
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famous general
-led operation Torch |
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supreme leader of Japan
-planned the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
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organized Nazi propoganda
-Hitler's right hand man |
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| When did Pearl Harbor get bombed? |
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| When does US declare war? |
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| 78,000 prisoners of war were taken and had to walk to a Japanese prison camp |
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| 16 B-25's bombed Tokyo, Japan to lift off US morals |
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| Japan cut off US supply lines in the pacific by attacking Australia |
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| turning point of war in Pacific |
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| was the key to winning the war in the Pacific |
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| November 1942 - will take the pressure off Stalin who betrayed Hitler and the Red army in USSR |
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| set up to protect ships in the Atlantic from the German U-boats |
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| Casablanca Conference 1943 |
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| allies decide to bomb Germany and invade Sicily and Italy |
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| Yalta Conference - Feb. 1944 |
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agreement reached!
-roosevelt and stalin agreed to division of Germany after war |
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| allies began to prepare to invade France = Operation Overlord |
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| target- region of Normandy |
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| fight to death (Bushido tradition) |
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| Battle of the Bulge - Dec. 1944 |
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hitler commits suicide rather than be captured by Red Army who enters Berlin first
NO MORE WAR IN EUROPE |
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| development of the Atomic Bomb |
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| V J Day - August 15ht, 1945 |
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| victory in Japan, war is over |
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| govt. would pay all the costs to make a product plus a % of the cost as profit for the company |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corp. |
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loaned companies money to convert war production
Homefront |
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| Fair Employment Practices Commission |
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FDR creates this
-1st civil rights agency est. by the federal govt. since reconstruction era |
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| started in 1942 to bring over 200,000 Mexicans to harvest food |
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CHEAPER, EASIER TO BUILD, HARDER TO SINK
-welded instead of riveted |
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| Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) |
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| women joined the war in clerical and nurse positions |
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DEMOCRACY
-US, Britain, and France combined zone into one nation |
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| Federal Republic of Germany |
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| western part of Germany officially became a new nation |
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| German Democratic Republic |
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| created by Soviet Union (East Germany including East Berlin) |
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| Western Allies had appeased the growing power of Hitler in the hope that he would destroy the Soviet state for them |
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| Yalta Conference - Feb. 1945 |
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
-agreed to split Germany into 4 pieces |
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| big three: US, Great Britain, and the USSR met at Potsdam near Berlin |
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| division of Europe between the East and the West |
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| Truman Doctrine - March 1947 |
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policy of CONTAINMENT
-OFFICIAL BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR |
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-to the US and Western Europe = CONTAINMENT
-to the USSR = SPREADING INFLUENCE |
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| What did the Truman Doctrine propose? |
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| US would protect any nation from communist aggression |
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| believed large scale wars were too expensive so a NEW LOOK was needed |
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US couldn't contain communism through small wars
NUCLEAR THREAT |
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| world's first artificial satellite |
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| the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down |
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| Popular Culture of the 1950's |
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-sun belt
-consumer society
-1950's family: BABY BOOM, stay at home moms
-youth culture
-youth subculture emerges
-new era of mass media |
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1964-1973
Viet Cong = North Vietnamese Communists |
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| SOUTH Vietnam Nationalist leader |
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| French defeat 1954 at Dien Bien Phu |
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-has to face losing a nation to communism
-DOMINO THEORY |
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| doesnt want democrats blamed for communist takeover of Vietnam like Truman was blamed for China |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| allows presidents to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against US and prevent further aggression." GAVE WAR POWER TO PRES. |
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-limited war
-strategy = bomb, ask for talks, bomb again
-bloody stalemate ensues |
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1. Hubert Humphrey
2. Richard Nixon
3. George Wallace |
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Nixon Doctrine - Vietnamization
Secret Bombing of Cambodia and Laos |
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| reel in presidents by requiring them to inform Congress within 48 hours of sending troops abroad |
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"Peace With Honor"
continued to BOMB |
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anti-war movements
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE UPSET |
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| Civil Rights Movement after 1945 |
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| Discrimination in the US hurt our propaganda battle against the Communists |
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| "separate but equal" facilities = LEGAL |
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| Out of School and Into the Buses? |
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the arrest of Rosa Parks DECEMBER 1955
Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott |
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| African American Churches |
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| backbone of early civil rights movement |
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9 black students enrolled in an all white school
-white families were so upset |
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MLK - SCLC
Roy Watkins - NAACP
Witney Young - National Urban League
James Farmer - CORE |
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-higher minimum wage
-increase in spending for education
-help for migrant workers |
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| The Warren Court 1953-1969 |
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expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power and federal power
"ONE MAN, ONE VOTE" |
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CONTAINMENT
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Assassination -- NOVEMBER 23RD, 1963 |
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| POVERTY, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION |
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| Post Civil War Amendments |
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13th- slavery ILLEGAL
14th- everyone is granted equal rights
15th- voting rights for EVERYONE no matter what race or gender |
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-JFK 1963
-Malcolm X 1965
-MLK April 1968 |
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| set up by LBJ, blames white society and racism for problems in the inner cities |
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focus on holding discrimination
HAD LITTLE IMPACT |
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| growing tensions between Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
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| party led by Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver |
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| black muslims/nation of Islam.... advocated black supremacy |
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| athletes raised clenched fists on podium --- highlight of Civil Rights movement |
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| Decline of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| Vietnam replaces Civil Rights as the liberal crusade |
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| Regents of University of CA vs Bakke |
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| 1978! bars quota system for college administration. END OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION |
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| second great awakening early 1800's WOMEN'S RIGHTS |
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| 19th amendment passage in 1920 |
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-early marriage
-babyboom
-stay at home moms
-nuclear family
-media portrayals of gender |
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| decided a woman with her doctor, could choose abortion in 1st 3 months of pregnancy without restrictions |
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| educational amendments passed in 1972 banned gender discrimination in education |
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| where women rise in a corporation and can see the top but cannot get there |
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| 1964 - led by Mario Savio and started at Berkley |
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| CHECKERS SPEECH - it was about his dog but he isn't going to get his dog back :( |
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July 1959 Eisenhower sent Nixon to the USSR
DISCUSSION GOT HEATED AS THEY ENTERED A MODEL KITCHEN EXHIBIT |
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| Richard Nixon narrowly won the election |
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| The 1960's? WHAT HAPPENED? |
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| it began as an era of optimism and possibility but ended in DISTRUST AND DISUNITY |
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to pray on the Southern whites
republicans get the democratic votes |
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| Nixon campaigned on the "silent majority" - the hard working Americans who paid taxes and desired a restoration of "law an order" |
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Nixon Doctrine - VIETNAMIZATION
Secret bombing of Cambodia and Laos
War Powers Act |
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-US/Soviet tensions ease
-SALT 1 - limits nuclear arms
-ABM treaties |
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| Domestic Policy - New Federalism |
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| system which directed money and power away from the federal bureaucracy and toward states and municipalities |
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| federal govt. gives $$ to local state agencies |
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| Mixes record on Civil Rights |
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| pro Affirmative Action but fought busing |
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| revealed govt. papers to the press |
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| when inflation and unemployment rise the economy remans stagnant |
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| a series of agreements made on European security |
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| new Cabinet created: The department of energy |
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| a partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor at 3 MILE ISLAND |
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| What happened at the 1980 Olympic Games? |
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| considered one of the WORST Presidents |
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| New Rights and Ronald Reagan! |
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dont trust the federal govt.!
want them to keep out of private life/business
WEST ALLIES WITH SOUTH |
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midwest small towns
wealthiest americans
white southerners |
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| kept interest rates high, massive tax cut |
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| 1st FEMALE member of the Supreme Court |
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| William Rehnquist (Supreme Court member) |
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| conservative head justice |
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| landslide victory for REAGAN |
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| made weapons that could shoot missiles out of the sky before they reach US shores |
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| improved relations with the Soviet Union (beginning of the end of the cold war) |
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| could now focus on his own economic and political problems |
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1987- Reagan makes a speech and said "Gorbachev tear down this wall"
TORN DOWN TWO YEARS LATER IN 1989 |
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