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1
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Medicare = inc. social security taxes by …, killed off in … by … led by …

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0.25%
1963
House of Ways & Means Committee
Wilbur Mills, s Dem from Arkansas

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proposals to create Dep of Urban Affairs repeatedly rejected in Congress …

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1961-62

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… K introduced Civil Rights bill - stuck in Congress at time of death … - had been referred to … = chairman … intended keep bottled up

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1963
Nov 1963
House Rules Committee
Howard W Smith, Dem

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Minimum Wage Act … inc min wage .. to .. but s Dems led by … = in total … workers excluded

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1961
$1/hr
$1.25/hr
Carl Vinson of Georgia
500,000

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(K) ethnic minorities = … Ams below poverty line

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1/3

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Development & Training Act …

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1962

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Area Redevelopment Act … created … new jobs & provided … to aid areas e.g. … but couldn’t get Congress renew funding

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1961
26,000
$394mil
Appalachia

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring …

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1962

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Clean Air Act …

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1963

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… appointed … Secretary of the Interior, while in post … helped acquire … land for Nat Park Service

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1961
Stewart Udall
1961-69
3.85mil

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first satellite Sputnik … & first man in space …

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1957
Apr 1961

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K famous speech … requesting additional … for space programme over next … & call land man on moon

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25th May 1961
$7-9bn
5 yrs

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within year … & … travelled in space & … first country land men on moon

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Alan Shepard
Virgil Grisson
June 1969

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K took office in depths … major recession since WWII including … & … Ams looking for work

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4th
business bankruptcies, declining agricultural exports & income
over 5mil

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US-backed invasion communist Cuba … - … voters agreed nat security most important issue

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Apr 1961
63%

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Cuban Missile Crisis …

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1962

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Civil Rights Act …

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1964

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Voting Rights Act … - by … … black Ams in Mississippi registered to vote

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1965
1968
59%

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19
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… Charles Evers elected mayor of …

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1969
Fayette

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Fair Housing Act … prohib racial discrim in sale & rental housing, encouraged integrated housing

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1968

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Office of Economic Opportunity: by … … states had antipoverty programmes, … Job Centres established, … adults learning to read & write & … children enrolled on Head Start programme

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1965
44
53
35,000
nearly 1mil

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Elementary & Secondary Education Act …

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1965

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Higher Education Act = helped … poorer students

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11mil

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Demonstration & Model Cities Act … only received …

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1966
$1.2bn

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by … … spent on War on Poverty & … on V War

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1966
$1.2bn
$22bn

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(N) … polls revealed … Ams believed ‘too many people receiving welfare money who should be working’

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1968
84%

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Omnibus Housing Act … financed rent supplements & … worth low & mod income housing in ghettos

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1965
$8bn

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28
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N had … approval rating for trying to reduce gov spending & welfare

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65%

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29
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1972 Dem candidate … liberal & left-wing

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George McGovern

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(N) riots in Watts in LA … & protest at Uni of California …

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1965
1964-65

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31
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assassination MLK … widespread riots … cities

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1968
over 100

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32
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(N) … alone … arrested in Washington DC

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spring 1970
10,000

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33
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J’s failure to repel Tet Offensive …

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early 1968

34
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N … televised address calling for ‘the great silent majority of my fellow Ams’ = poll after … supported V policy

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(Nov) 1969
77%

35
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(N) eve 1972 election Nat Security Adviser … announced …

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Henry Kissinger
‘peace is at hand’

36
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F entered office with approval rating …

37
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F gave N full pardon only month after resignation -> approval rating instantly dropped to …

38
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F vetoed … bills in … presidency

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66
29 month

39
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‘Billygate scandal’ = C’s older brother registered as foreign agent & received … ‘loan’ from Libyan gov

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by … C had lowest approval rating any president

41
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(F) … global oil prices …

42
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inflation av … 1973-83

43
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(F) unemp … by May 1975

44
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C stimulus package (… to each citizen) & inc spend public works briefy brought unemp down to … but rose to … by … & inflation …

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$50
7%
10%
1978
13%

45
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… V War came to end

46
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Iranian Hostage crisis … = took … Ams hostage

47
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USSR invaded Afghanistan …

48
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only … approved C’s foreign policy

49
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CREEP = …

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N’s Committee to Re-elect the President

50
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N tried pay burglars … keep quiet, edited tapes before handing over …

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$430,000
Apr 1974

51
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F initially advocated tax inc, few weeks later asked Congress approval … cut, accepted … cut

52
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… Nancy R began Just Say No campaign = travelled …, visited … cities in … states

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1982
250,000 miles
65
33

53
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by … … Just Say No clubs founded across US

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1988
12,000

54
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… R ordered fed workplaces ‘drug-free’ & urine testing ‘sensitive jobs’

55
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Webster vs Reproductive Services of Missouri … denied some women access abortions

56
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… R appointed Sandra Day O’Connor Sup Court

57
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following …’s retirement Sup Court in … B nominated …, views on abortion unknown

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William Brennan
1990
David Souter

58
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… Ryan White Care Act … to help AIDS victims & by … ACT-UP got … from Congress for research

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1990
$220mil
1992
$2bn

59
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R reduced inflation to … by 1988

60
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B had to inc taxes - nat debt at …

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$2.7trillion

61
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B lowered interest rates to …

62
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R inc mil spending by … over …

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$1.6 trillion
5 years

63
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… launched strategic defence initiative costing … by …

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1983
$12bn
1988

64
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B intervened in Panama in … against dictator … & liberated Kuwait against Iraqi dictator … by …

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1989
General Manuel Noriega
Saddam Hussein
Feb 1991

65
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(80s) recreational drug use … since 70s, … Ams (…) used illegal substances & … babies born addicted cocaine or heroin

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tripled
~40mil
1/6
375,000

66
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cocaine use by high school students dropped .. …

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1/3
1986-87

67
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(R) … Drug-Free Workplace Act = unis & contractors receiving fed money drug-free

68
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by … … spent enforcing drug laws per year

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1990
over $10bn

69
Q

Planned Parenthood vs Casey …

70
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by 1980 … women over 16 in workforce, by 1990 …

71
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female share professional jobs inc … to … & … to … in managerial roles 1972-…

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44%
49%
20%
36%
1985

72
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… Dem Party platform supported equality for all & … Dem pres candidate … & running mate … seen as most pro-gap & pro-lesbian ticket

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1980
1992
Bill Clinton
Al Gore

73
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… ACT UP followed first gay pride NYC demonstration demand equal rights & more AIDS research

74
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… R attempted nominate … as Sup Court judge = outspoken con, rejected

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1987
Robert Bork

75
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… election … challenged B for nomination

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1992
Pat Buchanan

76
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… R set up Presidential Advisory Committee on Federalism & Coordinating Task Force on Federalism

77
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… State of the Union message R announced plan reduce fed spending

78
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… B persuaded Congress pass Clean Air Act & … Energy Policy Act

79
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… B inc income tax & cut fed spending

80
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… N attempted to introduce Family Assistance Plan - would cut parent’s income support if refused to work & limit welfare recipients to … annually - failed pass but … approval rating

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1969
$1,600
65%

81
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(R) social spending fell by average rate …, cut staff regulatory agencies …, oversaw rapid recovery from … recession

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1.5%
1986
1981-82

82
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N won landslide 1972 election against 3A’s candidate … - … more votes & … states

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George McGovern
18mil
49/50

A-level History - America (10 decks)

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