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Contemporary America

Contemporary America. The Conservative Ascendancy, the Fall of the Wall, and the “End of History.”. Standard 26: Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century.

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Contemporary America

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  1. Contemporary America The Conservative Ascendancy, the Fall of the Wall, and the “End of History.”

  2. Standard 26: Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century • AP US 26.3 Analyze the changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the emergence of the service economy • AP US 26.4 Trace the development of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution

  3. Election of 1976 • Nixon/Watergate/Republican backlash? • Impact of oil embargo and/or economy?

  4. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1976

  5. Jimmy Carter • Camp David Accords • http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/campdav.asp • Iranian Hostage Crisis • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/e_hostage.html • Afghanistan • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4243737

  6. A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan certainly succeeded in that aim.

  7. The New Right • The “Moral Majority” that feel like “traditional family values” are being undermined. • Conservatives who believe that taxes are too high and/or that the federal government is too large and/or that government intervention does more harm than good (“Stop helping me!” -- thanks Mr. Morris!).

  8. The New Right • Roe v. Wade (1973) • http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1971/1971_70_18/ • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) • http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/aa/aa02.html • http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_811/

  9. Election of 1980 • Lingering economic issues? • http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Jimmy_Carter_Budget_&_Economy.htm • http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/218 • Question: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” • Foreign policy!

  10. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1980

  11. Ronald Reagan • Reaganomics! • http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/Reaganomics.html • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=406 • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576530412322260784.html • http://www.ushistory.org/us/59b.asp • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI aka “Star Wars”) • “The Evil Empire” • “Epidemics” including drugs and AIDS • Iran-Contra

  12. Trouble Spots in Central America and the Caribbean

  13. Trouble Spots in the Middle East

  14. Ususdu US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachov at the first Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. November 1985

  15. Mikhail Gorbachev • http://books.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/13/gorby_didnt_fall_he_was_pushed • http://books.foreignpolicy.com/category/one_time_tags/the_rebellion_of_ronald_reagan

  16. U.S. President Ronald Reagan delivers his famed speech at the Berlin Wall in June of 1987, in which he called for Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to “Tear Down This Wall!"

  17. Essay question • “Shifts in party control of the presidency during the second half of the twentieth century have typically not brought major shifts in domestic policy.” Assess the validity of this statement using the domestic programs of TWO of the following presidential administrations: Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon Ronald W. Reagan

  18. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1988

  19. The End of the Cold War

  20. The Persian Gulf War • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/

  21. Standard 27: Society and Culture at the end of theTwentieth Century • AP US 27.1 Trace and evaluate demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the “graying” of America • AP US 27.2 Analyze the revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers • AP US 27.3 Evaluate the politics of America’s multicultural society

  22. Standard 28: The United States in the Post Cold War World • AP US 28.1 Define and explain globalization and the American economy • AP US 28.2 Compare and contrast unilateralism and multilateralism in foreign policy • AP US 28.3 Analyze the causes of domestic and foreign terrorism • AP US 28.4 Evaluate environmental issues in a global context

  23. U.S. Budget Deficits, 1980-1997

  24. Share of Aggregate Household Income by Quintiles, 1975-1995

  25. Clinton years • “It’s the economy, stupid.” • http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1992 • Los Angeles Riots • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) • “Contract with America” • The Internet and World Wide Web • Bosnia

  26. The Breakup of Yugoslavia/ Civil War in Bosnia

  27. “The Culture Wars” • In California: • Proposition 187 • Voting to end consideration of race, ethnicity, and gender in college admissions and public employment • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041905118.html?hpid=topnews • Timothy McVeigh • Defense of Marriage Act • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040701663.html?hpid=topnews • Impeachment

  28. Population Shifts, 1970-2000

  29. Essay question • Explain the causes and consequences of TWO of the following population movements in the United States during the period 1945-1985. Suburbanization The growth of the Sun Belt Immigration to the United States

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