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2. Vietnam War’s economic distortions: - prices went up (oil 1970) - dollar not strong enough - all the money went to the War Low improvements in: - education - scientific skill - manufacturing capacity Sources Of Stagnation

3. President Lyndon B. Johnson spend money on the Vietnam War and in his Great Society program which caused: - too much money in people’s hands and too little products to buy Causes for the U.S not advancing: - Americans got caught by the Japanese and Germans industries doing dominated: - steel, automobiles, consumer electronics

4. President Richard Nixon brought to the house: - knowledge - thoughtful expertise in foreign affairs - Nixon problems: - Americans were dissension over Vietnam and race relations - ripping apart of American society Nixon “Vietnamizes” the War

5. Fix the Vietnam dilemma: -policy “Vietnamization” - which 540,000 Americans troop were pulled out of Southeast Asian a war turned back over to Vietnamese By January 1970 the Vietnam War was the longest in America History - 40,000 killed and over 250,000 wounded - third costly War

6. My Lai Massacre 1968 American troops brutally massacred innocent women and children - led to more opposition to the war • 1970 Nixon attacked Cambodia which are Vietnam’s neighbor

7. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong used Cambodia: - bordering South Vietnam on the West as springboard for troops - weapons and supplies April 29,1970 Nixon ordered American forces to join the South Vietnamese: -clean out the enemy sanctuaries in officially neutral Cambodia

8. Students from Kent State University in Ohio respond angry to the invasion with rocks, window smashing, and arson National Guard fired; -killed 4 and wounding many Students from College in Mississippi highway patrol discharged volleys and killed 2 students 1971 the 26 amendment: - lowered the voting age to 18 the New York Times published “Pentagon Papers” which caused people to spoke between what the government said and the reality

9. China and Soviet Union were clashing over interpretations -U.S (Nixon) seized the chance to relax tension and establish “détente” Nixon then went to China to better relations (succeeded) Nixon then went to Moscow in May 1972: - foodstuffs - alarmed over possibility of a U.S Deal between America and China: -sell the Soviets $750 million worth of wheat, corn, and other cereals Nixon’s Détente with Beijing(Peking) and Moscow

10. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) struck down a state law - banned use of contraceptives, even married couples, however “right to privacy” protected the women’s abortion rights Griswold v. Wainwright (1963): - free legal counsel if to poor Escobedo(1964) and Miranda(1966) - right to remain silent and other protection when accused of a crime A New Team on the Supreme Bench

11. U.S and the USSR agreed to an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty -limiting each nation to 2 clusters of defensive missiles - arm-reduction negotiations know as SALT - freezing numbers of long-range nuclear missiles for five years • ABM Treaty(anti-ballistic missile) and the SALT(strategic arms limitation talks) lessened tension - U.S MIRV(multiple independently reentry vehicles) missiles which could over come any defense which the USSR did the same • Nixon détente policy work

12. Engle v. Vitale(1962) and School District of Abington vs. Schempp(1963) - (court)required prayers and having Bible in public schools - Brown v. Board of Education made the court back up • Nixon chose Warren E. Burger to replace Earl Warren - Nixon had four new members that were appointed

13. 1972 Vietnamese attacked with heavily equipped with foreign tanks Nixon responded with massive booms - China nor Russia helped because of Nixon Nixon’s campaign emphasized that he had wound down “Democratic war” Nixon won the election in a landslide - 520 electoral votes to 17 McGovern Nixon sought “bomb Vietnam to the peace table The Nixon Landslide of 1972

14. Nixon’s Great Society programs: - increased Medicare and Medicaid - Aid Families with Dependent Children - Supplemental Security Income = benefited indigent, aged, blind, disabled raised Social Security Nixon plan (Philadelphia Plan) = required construction-trade unions to establish “goals and timetables” for black employees White protested to “reverse discrimination” Nixon worried about the inflation: - 90 days wage freeze And took the nation off the gold standard Nixon on the Home Front

15. January 23, 1973 Nixon eventually drove the North Vietnamese to bargaining table to agree to cease fire • pace = U.S withdraw its remaining 27,000 troops get back 560 prisoners of war

16. July 1973 America was shock that U.S Air Force had secretly conducted thirty-five hundred b0mbing raids North Vietnamese in Cambodia Americans wonder that we have been fighting a war that we knew nothing about Nixon kept on bombing until June 1973 bombing inflicted grisly wounds Cambodia, blasting people, shredding it’s economy and revolutionizing its politics Cambodia was taken over by Pol Pot The Secret Bombing of Cambodia and the War Powers Act

17. Pol Pot tried to commit genocide by killing 2 million people over a span • War Powers Act November 1973= president to report committing troops to foreign in 48 hours end in 60 days • “New Isolationism” = discourage to use U.S troops in other countries

18. Syrians and Egyptians attacked Israel for regain the territory they had lost in the 6 days of war 1967 the U.S back up Israel Arab nations impose oil embargo= U.S limited oil and fuel crisis “energy crisis”= 55 mph to conserve fuel U.S 1948 imported oil but then went down hill 1970 oil consumption tripled at the end of WW 2 1991 U.S went into shooting against Iraq over oil supplies The AraB oil embargo and the Energy crisis

19. OPEC lifted embargo 1974 = quadrupled oil price • U.S led on forming the international Energy Agency 1974

20. Water Gate & Unmaking of a President • On June 1972 five men working for the Republican Committee for the Re-election of the president (Creep)were caught breaking into the water gates hotel and planting some bugs in the room -what followed -a huge scandal -many prominent administrators resigned • Lengthy hearings proceeded, headed by senator Sam Eruing, and john Dean 3rd testified about all the corruption, illegal activities, and scandal's that took place • They discovered tapes that recorded the conversation, but Nixon refused to hand over the tapes

21. Vice president Spiro Agrew was forced to resign in 1973 due to tax evasion • Thus, the accordance of the new 25th Amendment • On august 5,1974, Nixon finally released the three tapes, proving he had ordered a cover up of the Watergate situation

22. Gerald Ford was the first unelected ever, since his name had been submitted by Nixon as a V.P candidate when Sprio Agrew resigned due to a bribery scandal while he was Maryland governor He was also seen as a dumb jock of a president Che was a former University of Michigan football player) and his popularity and respect further sank when he issued a full pardon of Nixon, thus setting off accusations of a “buddy deal” The First Unelected President

23. His popularity also declined when he granted amnesty to “draft dodgers” thus allowing them to between to the U.S from whenever they’d run to usually Canada and Europe • In July 1975, Ford signed Helsinki accords, which recognized soviet boundaries, guaranteed human rights, and eased the U.S soviet situations

24. Disastrously for ford, South Vietnam fell to the communist North in 1975, and American troops had to be evacuated, the last on April 29, 1975, thus ending the U.S pole in Vietnam war. America seemed to have last the war, and it had, also a lot of respect. Defeat In Vietnam

25. During the 1970”s the feminist movement became energized and took a decidedly aggressive tone. Title ix prohibited sex discrimination in any federal funded education program a) it’s largest impact was seen in the emergence of girls sports The supreme Court entered the fray in the feminist movement a) the Court decisions challenged in legislation and employment. b) the Super-hot Roev Wade case legalized abortion, arguing the ending a pregnancy was protected under a right to privacy. Feminist Victories and Repeats

26. Even more ambitious was ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) to the constitutions

27. Race was a burning issues, and in the 1974 Milliken V. Bradly case, the supreme court ruled that desegregation plans could not require students to move across school- district lines Affirmative action, where minorities were given preference in jobs or school admittance, was another burning issue,but some whiles used this to argue ‘reverse discrimination” The Seventies in Black and White

28. The Supreme court”s only black justice, thurgood marshall, warned that the denial of racial preference might sweep away the progress gained by the civil right movement

29. In 1976, Jimmy Carter barely squeezed by Gerald Ford (297 to 240) for president, promising to never lie to the American public. He also had democratic majorities in both houses of congress. 1978, Carter got an 18 billion tax cut for America, but economy soon continued sinking Despite an early spurt of popularity, Carter soon lost it The Bicentennial Campaign and the Cartar Victory

30. Carter was a champion for human rights, & in Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) & south Africa, he championed for black rights & privileges September 17, 1978, president an war sad at of Egypt & prime minister menachem begin of Israel signed peace accord at camp David In Africa, though, several communist revolutions took place not all successful, but dishearten & threatening still Carter also pledged to return the panama canal to panama ‘by the year 200, & resumed full diplomatic relations with china 1979 Carter’s Humanitarian Diplomacy

31. Economic & energy was -inflation had been steadily rising & by 1979 it was at a huge 13% Americans would learn that they could no longer rude behind their ocean moats & live happily insulted from foreign affair • carter diagnosed America's problems as streaming primarily from the nation’s costly dependence on foreign oil, which was true

32. Foreign affairs and the iranian imbroglio • Cater signed the salt 11 agreements with soviet premier Heroid Brezhnez, but the u.s senate wouldn’t ratify it • then on November 4, 1979 a bunch of anti American Muslim militants stormed the U.s embassy in Tehran and took the people inside hostage demanding that the u.s two weeks earlier for cancer treatments