The Modern United States (1960s-present)

Great Society

Medicare

Health insurance for old people

For 65 or older

urban renewal

Remodeling cities

War on Poverty

Effort to stop Poverty

"silent majority"

Everyone who is not a hippy or not protesting silently supports Nixon.

major foreign policy actions

Visites China

Created the EPA

Created the endangered species act

Watergate Scandal

Background of the break-in

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

Changing role of media and journalism

Reports become detectives

President Gerald Ford’s pardon

Gerald Ford pardon Nixon

Made the people angry

Legacy of distrust

Americans start to not trust the government

United States v. Nixon

Supreme court case

Executive privilege

Made Nixon turn in secret tapes

Poor economy

Oil exporting countries were shut off and Gas prices goes up

Panama Canal Treaty

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

Camp David Accords

Egypt and Israel peace deal.

Agreed to stop all the killing in the middle east

First time Arab state recognized Israel

Energy crisis

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

Iran Hostage Crisis

1979, US Embassy

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

Released after 440 days

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

invasion of Panama

1988

Overthrown Manuel Noriega

Gulf War

1990

Iraq invades kuwait

Operation desert storm

US wins quickly

Counterculture

For

their cultures

Against

other cultures

Generation Gap

Different generations believed different things

Hippies

Anti-War people

Woodstock

New york

Hippies gathering

Environmental Protection Agency

Created by Nixon

Love Canal

Toxic waste dump in neighborhood

1,000's died.

Three Mile Island

Nuclear reactor meltdown

Revitalization of national pride

Pride goes up

Reaganomics

Supply side

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

Iran-Contra affair

Scandal

Lying to Congress

Selling weapons to Iraniens

War on Drugs

"This is your brain on Drugs"

Anti Drug Addicts

Strategic Defense Initiative

Starwars

Missile defence shield

AIDS epidemic

Early 80's AIDS was found out

Little was done about it.

Welfare-to-work

Program to reduce welfare

Kick people off of welfare and send them to work

Balanced budget

Zero National Dept

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement

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

Scandals

Monica Lewinsky

Had an affair with her and lied about it