APUSH Chapter 30 Flashcards

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oil embargo

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us used 70% of worlds oil

arab countries made organization of petroleum exporting countries, made an emnargo on us for their support of isreal during the yom kippor war, made pricis go up 1973

nixon tried to combat this with “energy czar” wh energy saving policies, prices for gas + such still rose

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us workforce

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alf-cio support down, no more meaningful work

only public employees really unionizing

more women working 1980, paid less, worked on smaller paying jobs

aa workers wh no discrimination law,s black women pay was almost like w womens pay, Hispanic women had few jobs

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environmentalist movement

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starting wh biologist Racheal Carsons boom “silent spring” talking abt effects of pesticides

now recycling, earth day

oil embargo + other stuff showed bad effects ww2, now a political issue

love canal NY: chemical waste got into ppls yards + got them sick, they organized and it was declared a health emergency, relocated the ppl

environmental protection agency

1970s bills on endangered species, emissions

business based groups like united auto workers didnt like environmentalist, thought they were bad for economy

lost the campaign to stop trans Alaskan pipeline, made population rise

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carter running for presidency + beginning actions

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carter was democrat, not liberal, religious, defending existing enlightenment programs, opposed comprehensive healthcare

needed d and r votes, won 1976

start of presidency:

  • deregulated airline, made flights cheaper, reforms in ss, education
  • inflation made stuff more $ and carter didnt help

symbol of a larger collapse

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carter- international policy

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europeans making better cars, japanese making better tech, us tried to import cheap materials but had more goods than could export, not #1 anymore

put international human rights at top, get cia to speak out against south african regime, Brazil

panama got control of Panama cannal by 2000

us had diplomatic relations wh ppls republic of china (conservatives mad, ad to end ties wh taiwian)

backed el savadors oppressive gov

Nicaragua:

  • lost Nicaragua, replaced wh dictator debaye, us had non one else top put in, tried to get funding for aid but turned down
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camp david

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carter got isreal to re-conciliate wh egypt, negotiations, camp david accords where egypt recognized Israel and had diplomatic relations

egypt regained control over sinai peninsula oil fields

carter hoped to make peace between Israel and Palestine but didnt work

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us + soviets

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soviets invaded afgantstan, threat to oil industry, ready to use us force if needed, us cut off trade wh soviets, no more detante

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iran hostage crisis

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us put pahlavi family in control of iran in 1953 for oil

shah was president, got overthrown by islamic leader khomeni

shah went to us for cancer treatment, kohemis followers stormed us embassy, took hostages

carter refused demands, after 444 days had a secret hostage helicopter rescue mission, failed, koheimi angry

fallout:

  • cyrus vance sec of state resigned cause of disagreements
  • oil $ rose 60%
  • failed in energy, failed in international human rights policy

hostages returned right as Reagan went into presidency, jan 21 1981

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neoconservatism

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democrats who turned aginst new deal style welfare state liberalism, wanted = opportunity but rejected outcome of equality

  • dismantle poverty programs, appeal affirmative action programs

wanted stronger national defense against communism, x detente, sad carter allowed communist to advance

building the institution foundation for rightward turn in american politics, well funded programs like heritage foundation

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the new right + religous right

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political: wanted to build up military, small gov, anti communist

economic: less taxes, regulation

social: pro family, traditional, not progressive (anti gay, etc)

who was in it: conservatives

religous right: wanted to return to traiditonal family, anit abortion, pro public prayer

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evangelical prodestants

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religious right

supported neoconservative on foreign policy, return prayer to public school, death penalty

moved conservatives to repub party

ppl on tv for specialized prayer, money, politics, by 1970s 30 religious tv stations

moral majority: 1974 revered jerry fallwell, bible Baptist, formed mm, anti gay, anti integration, stronger defense

new right and their traditional family values

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feminism- ERA, roe v wade

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phyliss schafly, headed stop ERA campaign, strong, big, religious group of ppl, said ERA was against gods plan

era approved by congress 1972, ratified by only 33 votes and died 1979

era timeline: introduced 1923, passed in 1950, 1967 NOW trying to get ratfied, approved 1971, 1982 didnt get contunied

  • 85% dems ad 33% repubs voting in favor

rove v wade 1973, laws saying abortion 2 trimesters in pregnancy is violation of privacy

  • orange county pro life political action committee made in 1973 anti sex ed, picketed plant parenthood
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dems v repubs

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democrats: liberals

  • carter - infuse religion, democrat, human rights, idealist (like Wilson)
  • urban (places red v blue similar to today)
  • mondale

republican: conservatives

  • reagan
  • bush- military CIA intelligence background
  • wealthy, fiscally conservative

carter: 1977-81

reagan: 1981-89

bush: 1989 - 93

clinton: 1993-2001

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reagan + election 1980

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reagan was a past actor, handsome, used to be democrat than switched

  • as cali governor he cut state welfare, reduced state employees, state tax revenue back to local gov
    • attacked student protestors
    • “the great communicator”
    • ended/rejected free spirot liberalism of the 60s

carter knew he needed to help economy and iran situation

reagon won election

white working ppl turned repub, women+aa didnt vote for reagan

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Reaganomics

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eagan revolution a new age in american political life

Reaganomics helped us economy wh supply siders wanting tax cuts, reductions in public spending to give intensive for piv investors to start business. create wealth and jobs

revenue lost by lower tax rates would make up for new economic growth, spending cuts would keep federal army of deficit (sum of money is too small)

george gidders “wealth and poverty” said a successful economy depends on the large increase of the rich

supply siders looked to reward the loyal republicans, affluent, business community and reduce democrat constituencies (voters who elect a rep)+ the recipients of welfare programs

increase in defnse spedning, slow gov spedning, reduce fedral tax income (taxes levied by gov) and tax rate depending on income, deregulation, trying to reduce inflation

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reagonomics- economic recovery tax act + other lesgeslation

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1981

got cuts for corporations and individuals

  • reduced minimum tax income 70-50%

lowered tax pay on profitable investments

eliminated distinction from earned + unearned income

  • inherited, invested, more ppl in top tax bracket

created a favor to small rich population as they paid less taxes, less $ in taxpool

cuts for cutting social/cultural programs, arts, etc

shift to funding military

air traffic controlworkers organization went on strike, 1981, all fiend and replaced, union membership lower than 15%

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deregulation

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abloshied environmental protection rules, workplace safety, etc

james watt opened wetlands to priv developers, secretary of transport lowered regulations

weakend ssc, justice department antitrust division, let large corporations, stocks, loan industry have free reign

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1984 election

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democrats choose mondale, more military minded, carters vp, had the frist female vp of gerdoine ferraro, emphasized growing deficit and unhelped majority

reagons popularity made him win over 50% of vote majority blue collar +54% women, ¼ dems

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strategic defense initiative

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reagon very anitcommunist, rollback communism, said us was behind ussr in military (not true), proceed wh plans to become global superpower + had largest peacetime military buildup

sdi 1983- space defense, use space missiles to defeat missiles coming to us

  • not possible, too $$$, destabilized treaties
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cuba and latin america

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reagan doctrine- us supported any anti communist regime

  • hoped to establish historical control over carribean, problems were from moscow havnnah alliance, and us tried to support anti communist in L america

1983 US admin said us invade grenada cuba, governed by Marxists, un didnt approve invasion

in el savador, us but billions of $ into us regime in e-s, bad regime, highly repressive

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Afghanistan (reagan era)

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us gave $ and resources to afgan in 1979 from ussr invasion, drove out ussr but taliban + osama bin ladin took over

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Nicaragua + covert war

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thought sandista army was threat to us, cia planned to get contras/exiles to be anti sandista, secretly mined their harbors, Nicaragua won judgment in world court, reagon ignored the verdict, pushed sanditsas to soviet bloc

congress tried to reign in the covert war by passing legislation (boland amdnement) to forbid support, but nsc secretly funded contras to continue and the scheme was revealed

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iran contra scandal

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showed how gov didnt listen to the constitution

terroist attacks on us mostly from pro palistine/islamic extremist, reagan blamed khomeini of iran and al qaddafi of libyeran

war between iran and iraq, us publicly supported iraq (Sudan hissien) and sent them supplies

secretly supplying iran wh weapons to get hostages back + make money

found out that us was using isreal to give iran weapons, also secretly still sending aid to Nicaragua contras

sending weapons to Iran, than taking that money and sending It to Nicaragua

nsc staffer oliver north defended his actions as patriotic, john pointdexter destroyed evidence and lied, many americans appalled, both men tried + convictions overturned, reagan claimed ignorance

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African americans

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33% aa, 29% Hispanic in poverty

aa working 62% of white income 1975

aa more likely to drop out of high school, higher death rate

1960 less aa kids in integrated schools than 1954, courts didn’t uphold programs

  • white flight to suburbs

sc case wh u of cali, white guy allan burke said he deserved to get into this school/thought he was more qualified than the aa kids, sc said affirmative action/diversity only when unfair treatment had been proved

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poverty

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¼ kids in poverty

rise in poverty, 50% of employees

early 1980s 350000 homeless, up to 3 mil

  • moslty vets, medical patients, female headed familites, veterans, reagan ignored

decline in housing + bad healthcare system

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women

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more female headed families, women pad too little to support family

divorced fams had kids/wives suffering, not always paying child support

rise in teen pregnancy, couldn’t get jobs/support

more female headed fams wh aa women

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migration

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sunbelt: florida to ca, conervative, more repubs, greater gross product

population growth from ss benefits, increase in old ppl and aa latino and asians

public improvements, developments, argibussinesses also added to growth

ny, texas and cali top 3 states, turned rural to suburbs

hispanic and natives making no money

rustbelt: upper midwest, democrats, population decreasing from less popularity in manufactoring

ppl moving from farms on midwest/plains to the newer stuff in the s

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war on drugs

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focused by first lady laura bush, just say no

1989 bish sent troops to arrest general mauel noriga in Panama, big drug dealer, thousands of innocent ppl jailed/died in the process of arresting him

crack was cheap and popular 1980

1982 war on drugs: opperation to stop drug tafficing

  • focused on supply abroad, needed to focus domesticlly wh rehab, education and treatment
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aids

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breakout in te 80s, mostly gay ppl but also from blood transfusions and sex

aids caused fear + anegr for gays, ppl promoting safe sex, reagon ignored

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1982 resesscion

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boomed in 1983

cause: from fed reserve tight policies, decline in energy prices, up in defense spending, inflation, high interest rates

supply siders not helping, reagan making more debt

effects: big deficiets made itnerst rates hight, value of dollar pushed up and not many foriegn sales, mass unemployment, mostley in manufactoring

us industires behind

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George Bush

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republican, conservative ideas like no new taxes, war on drugs, prayer in schools

said no new taxes, ended up having to raise them anyways wh increase in poverty and small rich ppl, unsustainable economy

won 1988

endorsed the Americans wh disabilities act 1996 that penalized employees that discriminated against qualified workers wh disabilities + build up accessibility

but also vetoed family leave bill that said 6 months of unpaid maternity leave for families

clean warer/air bill

had congress impose a small hike on wealthy taxpayers

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soviets and Gorbachev

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1985 Gorbachev took over ussr, encouraged open political disscusion, released ppl from prison, working towards halting a profit based market economy, imrpoved economy wh less %$ to millitary

  • glasnost- openness of policy/politics
  • perestokia- economic rebuilding

meeting wh reagan to ends arms race, no more cold war, but also making threats lowk

end communist reform in russia

1989 1st open elections, not use force to keep satitie nations in line, elections in poland, no more communism in polnd, checz, ect

end of cold war brought other political, religous differences

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kuwait

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oil rich country

190 iraqi troops took over kuwait and their oil feilds, felt kuwait was an ancient providence of iraq

after US threatened hussien + didn’t listen, operation desert shield, trying to go under the UNs knowledge and build up forces in saudi

than does operation desert storm where they made air strikes against the guard to remove them, US military in kuwait for 100 hours, pushed troops out

bush ordered forces to saudi/persian gulf + alliance in UN

  • couldnt get iraq to leave, congress alowed pres ot use millitary force

left huge death toll and ecological damage

bush decided to not go into Iran

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persian gulf war

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cia tried to overthrow hussien + iraqui kurs supported us but got jaield + torutured

us in saudi arabia, v oil rich, used to get into iraq, many islams hating us as saudi was a sacred place

osama bin laden opposed us, had terroist organization

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1992 election

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perisan war made bush popular but led to recession + stock market collapse 1999

  • americans falling into debt, real estate prices dropped, bussinesses bankrupt

bush promised to work wh dems to fix it

agisnt clinton and ale gore for dems,

independent texas billionare ross perot said he would solve economic issues

  • clinton wanted tax cut for mc, conservative wh also being tough on crime, liked stable families, reduce bureaucracy, create new jobs

independent texas billionaire ross perot said he would solve economic issues

clinton won, perot got 19% which showed eocnomy was a big issue wh the people

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1988 election

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bush v dukakis

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affirmative action

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promote deseg/integration

mostly apply to jobs, used in education as well

  • newly segregated schools,

didn’t grow up wh same opportunities, take into account when hired/admitted

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desert shield v storm

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Operation Desert Shield was the defensive phase (August 1990 - January 1991) of the Gulf War, focusing on building up forces and defending Saudi Arabia

Operation Desert Storm (January - February 1991) was the offensive combat phase, aimed at liberating Kuwait from Iraqi forces.