The Seventies: Limits of Liberalism
Richard Nixon as President
Eastern Establishment
Foreign Policy
Ping Pong Diplomacy
China
Visit to China
SALT & the Cold War
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Premier
Détente
Henry Kissinger
Israel
Yom Kippur War
Egypt
Syria
Israel
Six Day War
Gaza Strip
Golan Heights
Sinai Peninsula
Latin America
Chile
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Salvador Allende
General Augusto Pinochet
Africa
South Africa
Apartheid
Sizing up the Government
National Environmental Policy Act
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Stagflation
Inflation
Oil Embargo
Middle East
Decline of Cities
Suburbs
Watergate
Democratic National Committee Offices
Watergate Hotel
Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)
Illegal Spying
Impeachment
Resignation
Spiro Agnew
Gerald Ford
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Gerald Ford as President
Domestic Policy
Foreign Policy
SALT II
Jimmy Carter as President
Election of 1976
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Domestic Policy
Stagflation
Energy Crisis
Nuclear Reactor
Three Mile Island
Foreign Policy
Apartheid in South Africa
Panama Canal
Mujahideen (Islamic Warriors)
Taliban
Camp David Accords
Israel
Egypt
The New Right
Republican Resurgence
Young Conservatives
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Tax Revolts
America in the 1970s
Politics of Identity
African American Activism
Black is Beautiful
Alex Haley
Roots, 1976
Affirmative Action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978
Native American Activism
Red Power
Sit-ins
Indians of All Tribes
Alcatraz Island
American Indian Movement
Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs
Mount Rushmore
Wounded Knee
The Women’s Movement
Equal Rights Amendment
Title IX of the Higher Education Act
Roe v. Wade, 1973
The Glass Ceiling
Equal Pay Movement
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The Sexual Revolution
Divorce
Opposition
Phyllis Schlafly
STOP-ERA
Gay Liberation Movement
Stonewall Inn, NYC
Gay Power
Marriage Rights
Harvey Milk
Environmentalism
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring, 1962
Earth Day
Environmental Protection Agency
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Religious Revivalism
Third Great Awakening
Zen Buddhism
Yoga
Conservative Christians
Moral Majority
Grassroots Conservatism
New Right
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Popular Culture
Sly and the Family Stone
Saturday Night Fever, 1979
The Godfather Movies
Bonnie and Clyde
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