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favoring native-born people to foreign people
-big in the 20s and 30s b/c WWI and economy's troubles |
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| Republican leadership: Harding |
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-1st prez on radio
-wanted ISOLATIONISM, LASSEZ FAIRE, & PROHIBITION
-didn't know how to say "no"
-gov't and business bonded during his term
-had a corrupted cabinet (Teapot Dome Scandal) |
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| Republican leadership: Hoover |
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-said gov't could only play limited role in helping solve problems from Great Depression
-helped Great Depression by helping businesses so they help people
-voted out of office in 1932
-people hated him b/c he was associated w/ Great Depression
-said GD was natural |
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| Republican leadership: Coolidge |
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-man of few words
-less prez does, better gov't
-moral: didn't drink
-business of america=business
-taxes DOWN, business UP |
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panic in the US began after revolutionaries overthrew czarist regime, Vladimir I.
-rebels wanted world-wide communism
-communist party formed in US
-US afraid of communism coming to US |
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| Cultural effects of radio/movies |
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-Hoover 1st prez to use radio
-FDR used "fireside chats" to talk to nation
-supported New Deal
-brought nation together
-these BOOMED |
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-Scopes taught evolution
-Bryan=prosecutor for religion
-Darrow=laywer for evolution
-Scopes found guilty and fined $100
-made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee |
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-Albert B Fall in Harding's cabinet
-secretly leased gov't land to private oil co.s
-got $400,000 in "loans, bonds, and cash"
-found guilty of bribery |
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strengthened in 20s/30s b/c anti-immigration
-used anti-communism as an excuse to attack anyone they wanted |
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-during war, strikes weren't allowed, so they increased during 20s/30s
-immigrants were willing to do anything, so lots of unions failed
-immigrants speak diff langs
-most unions excluded AAs |
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| Economic situation of farmers in 20s and 30s |
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-had borrowed $$ to buy land & machinery during WWI
-Euro agriculture flourished after WWI
-farmers lost machinery, $$, land |
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-limited amt of people allowed in each country
-mostly Roman Catholics, Jews, and Japanese affected |
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| Reaction to falling stock prices |
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-against New Deal although was at first for it
-proposed nationwide social program called Share-Our-Wealth
-program boomed
-assassinated |
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-1st female cabinet member
-major role in putting together Social Security System
-fought for labor rights, especially women
-pioneer in labor & womens rights issues
-Secretary of Labor for FDR
-gov't should play a large role in economy |
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Palmer raids: Palmer, Hoover, and agents hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists--while trampling their civil rights (invaded offices/houses)
-nothing turned up |
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-FDR won by a landslide b/c people were tired of Hoover
-4 monthes between win and presidency |
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-soldiers wanted their bonuses
-Hoover attacked them w/ tear gas
-FDR helped them get jobs |
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1930
-established highest protective tariff in US history
-designed to protect farmers & US
-reduced trade w/ US but made people not buy US goods, so US economy went down |
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-AAA (farmers crops, later abolished)
-NIRA (regulate business to prevent overproduction)
-WPA-made jobs quickly
-CCC-men built roads
-SEC (regulates stocks)
-FDIC (provides fed. insurance)
-pump priming: helps people get jobs (NIRA)
-institutional reform: helps businesses (SEC & FDIC)
-creating scarcity: lowering production in order to raise prices(AAA) |
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launched over 15 legislation
-expanded fed. gov'ts role in nations economy |
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-FDR proposed new court reform bill to reorganize fed. judiciary
-allowed him to appoint new justices |
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Chamberlain (Brit), and France gave Hitler Sudentenland if he wouldn't invade any more countries
-chamberlain didn't sign it |
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| US/Japan relations prior to 1941 |
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| -Japan wanted US to stop embargo (Lend-Lease: selling arms to democracy countries in WWII/Cash & Carry) |
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-froze prices on goods to stop inflation
-factories changed to build for war
-raised income taxes |
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-establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for military
-households received ration books w/ coupons for goods like meet, shoes, sugar, etc
-told to drive less |
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| similarities between Stalin and Hitler |
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compare/contrast:
Communism |
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-1 party, 1 leader
-state over individual
-propaganda/emotion
-extreme economic equality
-favors workers over owners
-world war followed by world peace
-socialist/communist system |
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-anyone can participate ($)
-individuals protected by civil rights
-free speech/reason=highly valued
-equality before the law
-war=neccessary to prevent attack & for freetrade
-owners and workers' rights balanced
-capitalist system |
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compare/contrast:
Democracy |
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-1 party, 1 leader
-state over the individual
-propaganda/emotion
-war is glorified
-owners over workers
-capitalist system |
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Brit
France
US
Soviet Union
Iraq
Iran
Syria |
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| giving in: France & Brit allowed Hitler Sudentenland if Hitler wouldn't take any more countries |
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lightning war: air, tanks, soldiers on foot
-Hitler used it |
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-capture Aachen, Germany
-Germ retreated a little
-after this, Germ could do nothing but retreat |
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-Germ bombed Brit for 2 months (air raids)
-Brit used radar at night, so they survived |
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| Hitler-Stalin Non-Agression Pact |
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Hitler & Stalin wouldn't attack each other
-made so Hitler didn't fight 2 front war |
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| 2nd generation Japanese (from internment camps) |
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commander of Allies @ Fillipines
-left b4 Death March |
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| broken promises by Stalin |
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| -non-agression pact w/ Hitler |
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-FDR & Churchill meet w/ Stalin
-Stalin-wanted harsher punishment for Germ
-Churchill: strong NO!
-FDR: want SS still w/ them in Pacific and UN to be formed, so he played negociator |
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| Reasons for dropping atomic bombs |
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-after winning Okinawa and Iwo Jima
-Prez Truman decided only way to go was invade Japan
-but would lose
-drop a-bomb instead (b/c Japan wouldn't surrender) |
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| -declared illegal by Korematsu vs US |
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-US and Filipino troops in Phillipenes surrendered to Japanese
-were marched to prison camps
-tortured on the way there |
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-Japanese invade China
-rape women
-kill people
-b/c of war that had been going on for a long time |
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-US and Soviet Union
-country w/ the ability to contribute to world wide issues |
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| countries that Stalin put Communist govts into |
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"it must be policy of US to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation/by armed minorities by outside pressures"
(help countries to not be communist) |
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-Japan had annexed Korea
-Communist SU took over North
-US took over South
-war back and forth
-Soviets called unexpected cease fire |
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-postwar
-western Euro in chaos
-Marshall proposed aid but "not directed at any country, just directed at poverty, hunger, and desperation" |
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327 days
277000 flights
2.3 million tons of supplies shipped into Berlin during the Blockade that was set up by Soviet Union
-then, SU knew they were beat |
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formed military alliance named North Atlantic Treaty Organization (no Germ, no SU, no Brit)
-1st military alliance for US
-Warsaw pact opposed it |
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-poicy to prevent Comm by any means neccessary
-US trimmed army & navy and built AIRFORCE, used to drop bombs |
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-Berlin=in great turmoil
-East Germ troops put up wall in middle of night |
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-SU promised to defend Cuba w/ arms
-Kennedy said Am wouldn't tolerate Soviet arms in Cuba & would attack Cuba
-3 days
-Soviets removed arms if US didnt attack Cuba |
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-Soviets launched it
-1st successful artificial space satellite |
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House of UnAmerican Activities Committee
-investigated communists in motion picture industry
-blacklisted actors who were comm
-Hollywood Ten: 10 who refused to give up names of comm actors, they went to jail |
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-Eisenhower said it
-communism would spread like dominoes
-Vietnam was first domino |
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-rode bus through South
-hoped to provide violent reaction that'd force Kennedy to pay attention in South and enforce the law
-it worked! Kennedy sent 400 US Marshals and banned segregation |
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| segregation by prejudice/custom |
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-register to vote
-nonviolent |
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-legalized segregation
-14th Ammendment made
-said SEPARATE BUT EQUAL |
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-8yr old in topeka
-desegregated schools |
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-boycotted buses
-worked! congress outlawed bus segregation |
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-braceros=mexicans
-many mexicans came to US for work during WWII
-many didn't leave although it was law |
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| outlawed segregation in US |
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| -more aggressive, sometimes violent |
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-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
-Dr MLK led it
-base was church |
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-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
-student based
-many beaten/expelled
-kids were NONVIOLENT
-DIDN'T organize sit-ins |
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Malcolm X vs Dr MLK:
Malcolm X |
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-opposed ideas of black power
-nonviolent |
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| National Organization for Women |
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(NOW)
-created by Betty Friedan
-wanted childcare
-wanted equality in jobs
-inspired by civil rts act of 1964, which banished segregation of race, color, gender, etc |
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-Gloria Steinman: journalist, political activist, founded Ms.-womens' magazine
-Betty Friedan:founder of NOW
-Phyllis Schlafly: against women's rights b/c didnt want drafts, etc |
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| Kennedy's policy towards Vietnam |
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"America will pay any price, bear any burden"
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
sent 16000 advisors |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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-gave Johnson all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of US and prevent further aggression
(Vietnam attacked US military ship near them) |
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-under Prez Johnson
-to correct social wrongs like poverty, discrimination, lack of opportunity
PARTS:
-Education
-Healthcare
-Housing: HUD
-Immigration: stopped quota
-Environment
-Consumer Protection |
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| General William Westmoreland |
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-war of attrition
-wanted to break Vietcong's morale
-counted ALL Vietnamese bodies |
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| "Operation Rolling Thunder" |
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under Prez Johnson
constant bombing of Vietnam
50,000 troops sent there |
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said Nixon
pull out of Vietnam with dignity
bombed VC sanctuaries to show them his power |
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My Lai Massacre:
looking for VC but killed the whole village |
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network of paths along borders of Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh supplied Vietcong through them |
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former defense dept worker Daniel Ellsberg leaked info to papers bit by bit
about LBJ and said he had already planned to enter Vietnam before Gulf of Tonkin |
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| Final outcome of Vietnam war |
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after US got out, Communist North Vietnam won
-made South Vietnamese go to labor camps |
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-said a prez must inform congress within 48 hrs of sending forces into hostile area w/o declaration of war
-troops may remain there no longer than 90 days unless congress approves prez's actions/declares war |
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-on Vietnamese New Yrs
-there were funerals, but they had guns in caskets
-attacked at once in 100 cities
-lasted 1 month
-US public support lost bc of this "VIETNAM WILL NEVER END!" |
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| US war strategies in Vietnam |
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-napalm
-agent orange
-search-and-destroy missions: uprooted civilians suspected of VC, burned villages |
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| Treatment of vets of Vietnam |
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post-traumatic stress disorder, abusing drugs/alcohol
US made Vietnam Vets Memorial (the wall) in Washington DC for them |
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| communist opposition group that assassinated 1000s of South Vietnam officials |
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-Johnson's sec of defense
-resigned |
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South Vietnam's Prez
strong anti-communist
restricted buddhism
didn't give land to peasants |
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communist organization whose goal was to win Vietnam's independence from foreign rule
-Ho Chi Minh=leader
-won against Japan
-French battled too, US helped em |
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| US lost battle here-first domino |
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-12 days of negociation with Carter
-Egypt, Israel signed it
-Israel withdrew from Sinai Peninsula and Egypt recognized Israel's right to exist |
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Nixon's VP
resigned bc of tax fraud |
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-Nixon's foreign policy
-aimed at ending Cold War tensions
-more flexible approach w/ comm nations (like china, soviet union) |
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| Nixon's defense in watergate |
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| Ford's pardoning of Nixon |
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-b/c wanted to put Watergate behind Am people
-angered MANY |
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under Carter
-thought we were dependent on foreign oil
-Carter proposed over 100 proposals on energy conservation/development
-got Nat'l Energy Act-put tax on gas-guzzling cars, removed price controls on oil and natural gas produced in US |
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handled Nixon's foreign policy
believed in realpolitik:based on power, not morale |
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-Carter let the shah of Iran into US for cancer treatment
-rebel govt that had taken over got angry
-armed students took 52 Am from US Embassy in Iran and marched them through Tehran's streets
-wanted the shah in exchange for hostages
-Carter refused
-hostages released about a yr later, shortly after Reagan became Prez |
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| Environmental Protection Agency |
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set/enforced pollution standards, conducted environmental research, assisted state/local govt in pollution control
-Reagan cut budget |
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Committee to ReElect the Prez
helped with Watergate scandal |
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| Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring |
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marine biologist wrote book that warned against pescdices
-led to outlawed DDT
-opened ppls eyes |
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| Nixon's visit to Soviet Union |
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-met with Brezhnev
-signed SALT I Treaty: 5yr agreement to limit # intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine missiles |
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-OPEC announced price hike of oil to restrict oil production
-made price of gas go UP! |
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| Reasons for Carter's popularity |
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| down to earth, peanutfarmer |
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
-many countries in Middle East in this
-US dependent on oil from them
-gradually raised oil prices in 60s
-cut off sales of oil to US when we helped Israel in Yom Kippur War |
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-again w/ Brezhnev signed to limit missiles again
-BUT congress disapproved of it
-Carter didn't fight it bc Soviets invaded Afganistan |
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| -wanted to reduce size/influence of fed gov't (cut budget, taxes) |
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-Reagan wanted it
-trillions of $
-defense system by Am scientists involving lasers
-didn't work |
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-Reagan "we will not negociate w/ terrorists"
-we sold arms to Iran for hostages and for $
-part of $ got sent to Contras in Nicaragua |
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| Reagan's economic policy was conservative |
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| 1st woman on Supreme Court |
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| Supply-side economics (Reaganomics) |
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1)budget cuts
2)tax cuts
3)increased defense spending |
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-have to hire AAs, women, etc
-favoring one group over another still |
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| Reasons why Iraq invaded Kuwait |
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Kuwait was going under the ground w/ a tube and stealing oil from Iraq
-wanted it from Iran |
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-to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control
-under Bush Sr
-lasted 3 months |
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-during Monica L scandal w/ Clinton
-ten items Republicans would enact if they won control of congress: tougher crime laws, welfare reform, tax cuts
-won |
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