70’S

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A TURNING POINT

Social Movements from 1960s advanced. Backlash by Americans

feeling economic insecurity and loss.

Contributes to rightward turn in American politics. New Deal liberal reform

movement shattered. Culture wars we are still

fighting.

1960S HANGOVER

National exhaustion from the reform and conflict of the 1960s, but still an ongoing commitment to social change by: Environmentalists,

feminists, gays and lesbians, people of color

ENVIRONMENTALISM

Rachel Carson and DDTFossil fuels and chemicals threatening global warming.

Nixon- Environmental Protection agency Set air & water pollution

standards for cities

Endangered Species Act- Protect fish & wildlife

threatened with extinction.

Equality of rights Jobs Government Education

1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court

decision that, on the basis of the right to privacy, gave women an unrestricted right to abortion during the first three months of pregnancy.

Phyllis SchlaflyOpposed WLMStated equal rights would attack a woman’s right to be protected & supported by men.

WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

11 Israeli Athletes killed by terrorist organization “Black September”

1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS

Watch the link below1972 Munich Massacre

Détente- effort to relieve tension between the U.S. and China & Soviet Union.

China & U.S. agree to make strides for peace.

NIXON VISITS CHINA

Nixon visit China

Mmmm, tasty

1st U.S. president to visit since WWII.

Moscow SummitSALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) Limit Nuclear Arms Exchange scientific

information

NIXON VISITS USSR.

Break-in looking for campaign info from the democratic party headquarters.

Burglars caughtNews reports reveal one of the burglars was ex-CIA.

Rumors of Whitehouse involvement Nixon

Did not order break-in Did order the cover up

Tapes Missing 18 ½ min. Nixon refused to give up

tapes Executive privilege Threaten national security Supreme Court orders Nixon

to release tapes Tapes revealed Nixon

ordered CIA to stop FBI investigation

Vice President Agnew Resigns, he had taken

bribes. Gerald Ford appointed new

vice President

Nixon resigns before he is impeached.

WATERGATE BREAK IN 1972

PRESIDENT GERALD FORD

“Our long national nightmare is over. ” Ford pardons Nixon.

US dependent on Foreign oil.

OPEC placed embargo on nations that supported Israel (US supports Israel)

U.S. suff ered fuel shortages and high gas prices.

Rising prices + economic stagnation (unemployment, low wages) + STAGFLATION

ECONOMIC CRISIS

Organization of

Petroleum

Exporting

Countries

OIL ROSE FROM $3 TO $34 A BARREL (1973-1979)

Rationing for Gasoline

Dept. of Energy created

Restrictions on Fuel

Pres. Ford pardoned Nixon Approval rating

droppedCarter promised to

Restore morality & honesty to govt.

Welfare reform National Medicare

ELECTION OF 1976

“I WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU.”-- PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

An ineff ective president.Micromanaged affairsPlayed the outsider and alienated potential insider allies.

Economic problems too big.

CARTER 77-81

Returned the Panama Canal to Panama

Camp David AccordsPeace treaty between warring Egypt & Israel.

U.S. diplomatic relations w/ China

Dept. of EnergySALT II with USSR

LOSS OF INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE

Fall of Saigon, 1975Communist N. Vietnam overthrows Democratic S. Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City)

Crumbling relations between U.S. and Soviet UnionSoviet Union supports revolutions in Africa and invades Afghanistan in 1979.

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IRANIAN REVOLUTION

overthrow of Iran's monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic Republic. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was replaced by the cleric Ayatollah Khomeini.

IRANIAN REVOLUTION 1979

IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS

53 Americans are taken hostage from the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979.

Failed U.S. helicopter rescue mission reinforces sense of helplessness.

Television Took more risks

Challenged the status quo.

Social issues Criticized

government

Mary Tyler Moore

Single professional working woman

All in the Family

Racism Ignorant bigotry

TELEVISION

Watch the clip below…. Listen to what Archie Bunker

says about the energy crisis vs. technology

Archie vs DemocratsHow did the Mary Tyler Moore show break the stereotype of Women.Mary Tyler Moore

ARCHIE BUNKER ON GUN CONTROL

Watch the link belowArchie on Gun Control

Revival in MoviesDistraction from bad economy

Source of entertainment

New technology Sound FX Visual FX

70’S MOVIES

USA v. USSR1980 Lake Placid Olympics

Morale low in nation

One of the biggest upsets in sports history

Helped lift America from a decade of gloom and despair, reviving patriotism and nationalism

“MIRACLE ON ICE”

Miracle on Ice

VOTER REVOLT

Americans seething with frustration at elected leaders and the political system.

With economic troubles and international humiliation, Carter defeated in 1980 election.

NRA National Riffl e AssociationOpenly supported a presidential candidate for the first time since it began

Moral MajorityFundamental Christians

Rev. Jerry FarwellReligious push to get the Bible to influence American politics.

NEW CONSERVATISM

Coalition of Evangelicals Catholics Conservatives Corporate leaders

Comprised to fight against Business Regulation Policies that were anti

Minorities Homosexuals Welfare recipients Feminist

NEW RIGHT

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1980 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Ronald Reagan- (R)Jimmy Carter- (D)

Path to White HouseCollege baseball announcer

Motivational speaker

ActorPresident Screen actors guild

Governor of Cali

RONALD REAGAN

This one question days before the election turned the undecided voters to Reagan!

Reagan

“Are you better off than you were four years

ago?”

Republicans won control of the United States Senate for the first time in 28

years

Republicans won control of the United States Senate for the first time in 28 years