Today s Topics The Triumph of Conservatism 1969-1988 1980s & Regan 1990s 21 st century 1
The Triumph of Conservatism 1969-1988 2
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Nixon s Domestic Policies moves toward the political center The Nixon administration created a host of new federal agencies. Nixon and Welfare Nixon and Race 6
Women Title IX Equal Credit Opportunity Act California 1 st to pass no-fault divorce 1969 7
Rate of divorce: Divorce of Existing Marriages Per 1000 New Marriages 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx9wo0mw0tw Start 14 mins-28mins Chile 1970 Salvador Allende, president 1973 military coup; Allende killed Augusto Pinochet, dictator, military government 1974-1990
Nixon and Détente Nixon visited China in 1972. Nixon then went to Moscow New policy of cooperation 10
Vietnamization Antiwar protests climaxed in 1970. A distraught young woman kneels beside one of the four Kent State students who were killed. 11
Chicano Moratorium, 1970 Protest over the high percentage of Mexican-American Casualties Anti-War Demonstration on August 29, 1970 in East LA over 30,000 people 3 fatalities, Ruben Salazar killed by tear gas canister 200 arrests http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhq4xs-drqm 40mins
The End of the Vietnam War The Paris Peace Agreement made possible the final withdrawal of American troops in 1973. Vietnam was a military, political, and social disaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw63wh_g6lq&feature=related 13
Watergate Nixon was obsessed with secrecy. The Watergate break-in Covered up by the White House. Supreme Court ordered Nixon to hand over the tapes. House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend impeachment. Nixon resigns 1974 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfid6qkwh88 14
The Decline of Manufacturing postwar economic expansion and consumer prosperity came to an end slow growth and high inflation. In 1971, for the first time 20 th century the United States experienced a merchandise trade deficit. Stagflation : Stagnant economic growth and high inflation. 15
Table 26.2 The Misery Index, 1970 1980 Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright 2013 W.W. Norton & Company
Oil Embargo 1973
Figure 26.2 Real Average Weekly Wages, 1955 1990 The World Trade Centre under construction 19
Ford as President Among his first acts as president, Ford pardoned Nixon. In domestic policy, Ford s presidency lacked significant accomplishment. 20
1976 Apple I on sale Founded in 1976 No. Cal Steve Jobs
Map 26.2 The Presidential Election of 1976 Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright 2013 W.W. Norton & Company
Carter Administration Carter makes human rights central to foreign policy Panama Canal in 2000 23
The Iran Crisis and Afghanistan The Iranian revolution Ayatollah Komeini creates an Islamic Republic 1979 U.S. Embassy Hostage Crisis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka-wu1jyy9u Afghanistan Iran Crisis 24
The Election of 1980 Iran Hostage Crisis 25
Map 26.1 The Presidential Election of 1980 Freedom Reagan made conservatism seem progressive. Reaganomics Reagan s tax cuts 26
The Problem of Inequality Figure 26.3 Changes in Families Real Income, 1980 1990 27
1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) About 2.4 million undocumented workers were granted legal status. It enacted sanctions against employers. It granted amnesty and eligibility for citizenship to undocumented workers who had lived in the U.S. continuously since January 1, 1982.
Conservatives and Reagan Reagan and the Cold War 30
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Nicaragua 1979-1990 Sandinistas, socialist party Augusto Sandino Contras
The Iran-Contra Affair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz4bvgtkqie 33
Reagan and the Cold War Soviet Union as an evil empire and sponsored the largest military buildup in American history. Hollywood joined enthusiastically in the revived Cold War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_i4wgbfetc 34
Map 26.2 The United States in the Caribbean and Central America, 1954 2004 35
Reagan and Gorbachev Reagan s Legacy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz4bvgtkqie 118 36
The Election of 1988 37
The Crisis of Communist world The Tiananmen Square demonstration in 1989. 1989 Berlin Wall falls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfbyic9pnoo Germany reunified in 1990. Fall of the U.S.S.R. 1991 38
Map 27.1 Eastern Europe After the Cold War 39
Globalization 1989 2000 40
1990s Wal-Mart largest employer Manufacturing jobs Service sector jobs 41
A New World Order? Characteristics are unclear. The Gulf War Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. The Gulf War was the first post Cold War international crisis. 42
The Election of Clinton 43
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) January 1, 1994 U.S., Canada, Mexico agreed to create a common market of 360 million people 44
The Newest Immigrants
The New Diversity
Figure 27.3 The Projected Non-White Majority: Racial and Ethnic Breakdown Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright 2011 W.W. Norton & Company
African-Americans in the 1990s The Role of the Courts The Spread of Imprisonment Figure 27.5 Institutional Inmates as a Percentage of the Population by Sex and Race, 1850 1990
The Freedom Revolution In 1994, Republicans Congress. Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America 1995 Federal government shutdown Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia 49
Clinton abolished the program (AFDC). Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act 1933-1999 commercial banks invested in risky mortgages The cause of the housing bubble collapse 2008 50
Clinton and World Affairs Human rights to a central place in international relations. The Balkan Crisis The disintegration of Yugoslavia. 51
A New Economy? The Computer Revolution Computers and the Internet produced a new economy. The Stock Market Boom and Bust. Investors were especially attracted to the new dot coms. The bubble burst on April 14, 2000, when stocks suffered their largest one-day drop in history. 52
The Impeachment of Clinton Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Clinton Legacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5g5_bs09u
The Election of 2000 54
Florida A member of a Florida election board 55
The 2000 Result The Supreme Court decided the outcome. No recount. Governor Jeb Bush declared his brother George Bush the winner. 56
Bush before September 11 The Twin Towers 57
The War on Terrorism They Hate Freedom Bush told America that freedom and fear are at war. The twin towers had become a symbol of American patriotism. A photograph of three emergency-response workers 58
The Bush Doctrine The United States would launch a war on terrorism. War in Afghanistan The Axis of Evil Iraq, Iran, and North Korea 59
Map 28.1 U.S. Presence in the Middle East, 1947 2010
Confronting Iraq In 2002 the Bush administration announced that a regime change was necessary in Iraq because Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq War Operation Iraqi Freedom Bush s War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoe3vybouy8 61
The Iraq War Operation Iraqi Freedom or Bush s War 62
Congress rushed to pass the USA Patriot Act. Bush s Second Term End tyranny in the world 63
Hurricane Katrina 2005 FEMA Poor residents of the city were left abandoned amid floodwaters. 64
The Housing Bubble Banks and other lending institutions issued sub-prime mortgages. The Great Recession In 2008 the stock market collapsed. The recession became the longest since the Great Depression. 65
The Rise of Obama v Barack Obama and his family A cartoon in the Boston Globe 66
The Election of 2008 Obama becomes the 1 st African-American president. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opepg12kenc 67