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• Week 15– Review the 1960s– 1970s to the 21st century – In-class Assignment #2: Assess California’s
economic, social, and political developments since WWII Today
– Timeline Due Today– Quiz 5 Wed
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Free Speech Movement
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUc2eLe-ruI120
REAGAN1967-1975
• Pragmatic
• Cuts: mental health, higher ed.
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Regan as governor 1967
• How does Regan refer to the students? What does he blame them for?
• What is the main threat at the university? • http://www.dailycal.org/2014/12/22/history-uc-tuition-since-1868/
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Environment MovementApril 22, 1970: Earth Day
Oil Spill 2015
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• The Legacy of the Sixties– U.S. became more open, tolerant, and freer.– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUc2eLe-ruI
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The Triumph of Conservatism 1969-1988
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• Nixon’s Domestic Policies– moves toward the political center
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– Women
• Title IX• Equal Credit Opportunity Act• California 1st to pass no-fault
divorce 1969
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Rate of divorce:Divorce of Existing Marriages Per
1000 New Marriages
– Nixon visited China in 1972.– Nixon then went to Moscow
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President Nixon and Brezhnev
Port of LA 2015
• Top Trading Partners:Top five, in cargo value, CY 2014
China/Hong Kong - $142 billionJapan - $39 billionSouth Korea - $16 billionTaiwan - $13 billionVietnam - $13 billion
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– Vietnamization
– Antiwar protests climaxed in 1970.
A distraught young woman kneels beside one of the four Kent State students who were killed.
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• Anti-War Demonstration on August 29, 1970 in• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQ4XS-DrqM 40mins
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• The End of the Vietnam War
• The Paris Peace Agreement• Vietnam was a military, political, and social disaster.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw63wH_g6LQ&feature=related
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– The Watergate break-in• Covered up by the White House.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFID6Qkwh88
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• Nixon resigns 1974
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Jerry Brown 1975-1983
• Defied labels
• No perks
• Environmental protection
• Property Tax 13 (1978)• http://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/Prop13.pdf
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• The Decline of Manufacturing• In 1971 U.S. has a merchandise trade deficit.• “Stagflation”
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Oil Embargo 1973
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• The Decline of Manufacturing• In 1971 U.S. has a merchandise trade deficit.• “Stagflation”
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The World Trade Centre under construction22
Figure 26.2 Real Average Weekly Wages, 1955–1990
Feb. 9 1971 San Fernando Earthquake
• 6.5 on scale, 12 seconds, 60 killed
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1976 Apple I on saleabout $650 memory 4 kb
• Founded in 1976 • Steve Jobs
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• Ford as President
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• Reaganomics– Reagan’s tax cuts– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYVIpoJq8Ng– 44 mins -105 mins
Map 26.1 The Presidential Election of 1980
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• The Problem of Inequality
Figure 26.3 Changes in Families’ Real Income,1980–1990
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1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act
• About 2.4 million undocumented workers were granted legal status.
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California 1986http://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/watch-videos/#2365076202
1050 mins -13 mins
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• Reagan and the Cold War– Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and sponsored the
largest military buildup in American history.
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Hollywood joined enthusiastically in the revivedCold War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc
XM 9.2
• The Iran-Contra Affair
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• Reagan and Gorbachev• Reagan’s Legacy• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz4BvgTKQIE 118
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• The Crisis of Communist world – The Tiananmen Square demonstration in 1989.– 1989 Berlin Wall falls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfbyIc9pNOo
– Germany reunified in 1990.– Fall of the U.S.S.R. 1991
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Map 27.1 Eastern Europe After the Cold War36
1994 Proposition 187http://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/watch-videos/#2365076202
27 mins -32 minshttp://www.wsj.com/articles/mexican-immigration-to-u-s-reverses-1447954334
• Save our State Initiative The initiative bans undocumented immigrants and their family from receiving public education and public benefits.
• Californians pass Proposition 187 with 59% of the vote.
• 1995 Proposition 187 is unconstitutional.
Globalization 1989–2000
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1990s Wal-Mart largest employer
Manufacturing jobs Service sector jobs
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• Nicaragua 1979-1990• Sandinistas, socialist party
– Augusto Sandino • Contras
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• The Iran-Contra Affair• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz4BvgTKQIE
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• Reagan and the Cold War– Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and sponsored the
largest military buildup in American history.
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Hollywood joined enthusiastically in the revivedCold War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc
Map 26.2 The United States in the Caribbean andCentral America, 1954–2004
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• The Election of Clinton
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1992 Los Angeles RiotsApril 29 to May 4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbqDr-7oRs 23mins
• About 60 people killed
• About 4,000 businesses destroyed
• The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) January 1, 1994
• U.S., Canada, Mexico agreed to create a common market of 360 million people
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1996 Proposition 209
• Bars preferential treatment based on race or gender, virtually eliminating affirmative action in the state.
1998 Proposition 227
• Bans bilingual classroom education and English as a second language program.
The Newest Immigrants
• The Housing Bubble– Banks and other lending institutions issued “sub-prime”
mortgages. • The Great Recession
– In 2008 the stock market collapsed.– The recession became the longest since the Great
Depression.
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Silicon ValleyGabrielino tribeAngel Island 1st Spanish missionOakland Sutter’s mill
