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Changing and Enduring Issues

Changing and Enduring Issues. 1970 - The Present. #37: Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 What is the significance of this image?. Nixon visits China & USSR --> Detente - easing of Cold War Tensions SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty). Watergate Scandal When: June 17, 1972

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Changing and Enduring Issues

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  1. Changing and Enduring Issues 1970 - The Present

  2. #37: Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 What is the significance of this image? Nixon visits China & USSR --> Detente - easing of Cold War Tensions SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

  3. Watergate Scandal When: June 17, 1972 Where: Watergate Towers, Washington DC Who: Nixon re-election advisors What: Break in to the Democratic Party Headquarters to install wiretaps Why: To get information that would help Nixon get re-elected

  4. Nixon recorded Oval Office conversations Nixon believes that as President, he is above the law US v. Nixon - Supreme Court orders him to turn over tapes but parts of the recordings had been destroyed --> limited executive privilege

  5. Nixon resigns on August 9, 1974

  6. Also during the Nixon Administration Foreign Vietnamization “Peace with Honor” War Powers Act Domestic OSHA EPA DEA 1969 - moon 26th Amendment

  7. #38: Gerald Ford, 1974-1977 Tries to rebuild US trust in government Amnesty to draft dodgers Pardon for Nixon

  8. OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) places embargo on US due to our support of Israel --> Inflation and high oil prices

  9. #39: Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel 1980 Olympics in Moscow Boycotted Iranian Hostage Crisis Stagflation High Oil Prices

  10. #40: Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989 Supply-Side Economics (Reaganomics, Trickle-Down Theory) --> Tax Cuts for businesses and the wealthy Trade Deficits

  11. Iran-Contra Affair Fall of the Berlin Wall

  12. #41: George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993 Persian Gulf War Operation Desert Storm “No New Taxes”

  13. #42: Bill Clinton, 1993-2001 Bosnia NAFTA Healthcare Reform Impeachment

  14. #43: George W. Bush, 2001-2009 2000 Election Dept. of Homeland Sec. Hurricane Katrina

  15. September 11, 2001 War in Afghanistan/Taliban War in Iraq Operation Iraqi Freedom

  16. #44: Barack Obama, 2009-2015 Foreign Policy Challenges • Iraq • Afghanistan • North Korea • Middle East

  17. Domestic Policy/Events Stimulus Plan Fair Pay Act Healthcare Reform - “Obamacare” Acts of Mass Violence Gay Rights Immigration Reform Superstorm Sandy

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