The Modern United States (1960s-present)

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Major Issues Currently facing State and Local Governments

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DISTRIBUTION AND CAUSES OF POVERTY & WAYS TO ADDRESS IT

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President Bill Clinton

Scandals

Monica Lewinsky

Had an affair with her and lied about it

NAFTA

Canada, Mexico, America didn't have any tariffs against each other.

North American Free Trade Agreement

Balanced budget

Zero National Dept

Welfare-to-work

Kick people off of welfare and send them to work

Program to reduce welfare

President Ronald Reagan

AIDS epidemic

Little was done about it.

Early 80's AIDS was found out

Strategic Defense Initiative

Missile defence shield

Starwars

War on Drugs

Anti Drug Addicts

"This is your brain on Drugs"

Iran-Contra affair

Selling weapons to Iraniens

Lying to Congress

Scandal

Reaganomics

Supply side

Give money to the rich and it trickle down to the poor.

Revitalization of national pride

Pride goes up

Environmentalism

Three Mile Island

Nuclear reactor meltdown

Love Canal

1,000's died.

Toxic waste dump in neighborhood

Environmental Protection Agency

Created by Nixon

Social Activism

Woodstock

Hippies gathering

New york

Hippies

Anti-War people

Generation Gap

Different generations believed different things

Counterculture

Against

other cultures

For

their cultures

President George H.W. Bush

Gulf War

1990

US wins quickly

Operation desert storm

Iraq invades kuwait

invasion of Panama

Overthrown Manuel Noriega

1988

President Jimmy Carter

Iran Hostage Crisis

Carter order an a helicopter to try and help the hostages but it crashed in a sandstorm

The Iranian college kids started to protest and take US embassy employees hostage.

Released after 440 days

1979, US Embassy

Energy crisis

Opec turns off the Oil as a way to punish the U.S

Camp David Accords

First time Arab state recognized Israel

Egypt and Israel peace deal.

Agreed to stop all the killing in the middle east

Panama Canal Treaty

Signed a treaty to give the Panama Canal back owner ship to Panama in 2000

Poor economy

Oil exporting countries were shut off and Gas prices goes up

President Richard Nixon

Watergate Scandal

United States v. Nixon

Supreme court case

Made Nixon turn in secret tapes

Executive privilege

Legacy of distrust

Americans start to not trust the government

President Gerald Ford’s pardon

Gerald Ford pardon Nixon

Made the people angry

Changing role of media and journalism

Reports become detectives

Background of the break-in

President hired people to break in the democratic party headquarters to steal their secret plans.