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What important events occurred during the 1970s and 1980s?

Explore significant events such as the Vietnam War, Watergate scandal, Iran hostage crisis, and Reaganomics during the 1970s and 1980s in the United States.

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What important events occurred during the 1970s and 1980s?

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  1. What important events occurred during the 1970s and 1980s? President Richard Nixon (1969–1974) President Gerald Ford (1974 –1977) President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) President Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)

  2. Richard Nixon with running-mate Spiro Agnew Election of 1968

  3. In 1973, PresidentRichard Nixon ended the involvement of the U.S. in theVietnam War. U.S. leaves Vietnam (March 29, 1973)

  4. As a result of the Vietnam War, the War Powers Act was passed in 1973 to limit the president’s ability to send U.S. troops into combat abroad.

  5. Nixon used a policy of détente to decrease Cold War tensions. Nixon with China’s communist leader Mao Zedong Nixon with Soviet Union communist leader Leonid Brezhnev

  6. Election of 1972

  7. In 1972, it was discovered that advisors of Nixon tried to spy on the Democrats, which Nixon illegally tried to cover-up. Watergate apartment complex; Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

  8.  Watergate hearings (1973) “I’m not a crook!”

  9. Rep. Gerald Ford becomes new vice president (December 6, 1973) Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being accused of taking bribes and income tax evasion as Governor of Maryland (October 10, 1973)

  10. This Watergate scandal resulted in Nixon resigning from office in 1974. Nixon’s resignation speech (August 8, 1974)

  11. Ford pardons Nixon (September 8, 1974) Gerald Ford sworn in as president (August 9, 1974)

  12. Election of 1976 Jimmy Carter with running-mate Walter Mondale

  13. In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries placed an embargo on oil imported by the U.S., . . . Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) (Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela)

  14. . . . which increased oil’s cost and hurt the U.S. economy during the 1970s. 1970s energy crisis

  15. In 1978, PresidentJimmy Carter helped negotiate the Camp David Accords,which established peace between Egypt and Israel. Egypt’s Prime Minister Anwar El Sadat shakes hands with Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin

  16.  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Former shah (king) of Iran until being overthrown during 1979 Iran Revolution Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979–1989) Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981): For 444 days, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran

  17. Election of 1980 Ronald Reagan with running-mate George H. W. Bush

  18. January 20, 1981

  19. During the 1980s, PresidentRonald Reagan lowered federal income tax rates to create an economic boom for the U.S. “Supply-side economics”

  20. In the Iran-Contra affair of 1986, Americans learned that the U.S. was selling weapons to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini Anti-communist contra rebels

  21. Reagan was cleared of any crimes, but this affair and the Watergate scandal undermined public trust in elected government leaders.  Lt. Col. Oliver North

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