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History 2057 Confidence/Corruption
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Undergraduate 3
05/08/2012

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Teapot
Definition
- Corruption
- Harding administration
- selling public land to oil companies
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Bonus Army
Definition
- Corruption
- congress passes bonus for vets
- vets want bonus immediately
- march on dc
- Hoover terms army on vets
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FDR
Definition
- New Deal
- gave people hope by providing work, food, medical care, etc
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Watergate
Definition
- Corruption
- Nixon spying on democratic nation committee
- Nixon breaks into Watergate
- went through files
- Ellsberg psychological papers
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Carter Malaise Speech
Definition
- inflation, unemployment, lost war, radical cultural change
- crisis of confidence
- lost national will and unity of purpose
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Reagan
Definition
- "getting back to American Values"
- optimistic and optimistic about americas future
- quick witted
- firm stand against russians
- reagan was Standing Strong For America
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Contras vs. reagan optimism ****
Definition
Willing to put lives in harms way
Beirut, Grenada
Nicaragua
Backed sandanista won, then we turned on them.
Started backing contras, then abandoned them
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