70s Flashcards

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problems faced by industry in the 1970s✔

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  • competition from foreign markets

* scarcity of cheap raw materials

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Southern Strategy✔

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  • Nixon got Southern support
  • Promised to slow civil rights
  • Got votes in South
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What caused the oil embargo?✔

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  • 1973, Israel goes to war with Egypt and Syria (Yom Kippur War)
  • OPEC
  • Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries (OPEC)
  • oil embargo on US.
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What does “Watergate” refer to?✔

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the Watergate hotel

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