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Dwight Eisenhower

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1953-61

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John F Kennedy

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1961-63

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Lyndon B Johnson

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1963-69

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Richard Nixon

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1969-74

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Gerald Ford

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1974-77 Rep

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Jimmy Carter

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1977-81 Dem

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Ronald Reagan

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1981-89

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George Bush

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1989-93

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JFK speech on ‘New Frontier’ at … Dem Convention

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1960

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1960 JFK …

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43

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Medicare planned increase social security taxes by …, … Chairman of … Killed off in …

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

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School Assistance Bill: in … Asked for … For new schools & raised teacher salaries, passed … Defeated in …

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(Feb) 1963
$2.3bn over 3 years
Senate
House of Representatives

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… Attorney General … fed troops to protect …, in … sent troops to protect …

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1961
Robert Kennedy
Freedom Riders
1962
James Meredith

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JFK failed to intervene Albany campaigns …

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1961-62

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… black citizens inc children attacked by dogs & water cannons Birmingham, Alabama

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1963

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Civil Rights Bill stuck in Congress at K’s death, … planned to keep bottled up indefinitely

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chairman of House Rules Committee, Dem Howard W Smith from Virginia

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… published Silent Spring …

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Rachel Carson (former member US Fish & Wildlife Service)
1962

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Clean Air Act

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1963

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… appointed … Sec of the Interior = … helped National Park Service acquire … land

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1961
Stewart Udall
1961-69
3.85mil acres

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Peace Corps created by Exec Order … = first 2 years … volunteers aid to … countries, … Americans approved

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1961
5,000
46
71%

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first satellite Sputnik … first man in space Yuri Gagarin …

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1957
(Apr) 1961

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National Aeronautics & Space Administration created …

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1958

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… K requested additional … from Congress for space programme over …

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25th May 1961
$7-9bn
5 years

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within … Am astronauts … in space, first men on moon …

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year
Alan Shepard & Virgil Grisson
June 1969

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min wage increased from … to … in …, covered … workers (S Dems led by … ensured … poorly-paid workers excluded)

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$1
$1.25
1961
3.6mil
Carl Vinson of Georgia
350,000

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(JFK) food stamp programme fed … cost … annually, used Exec Orders to give … children daily free school lunch & milk

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240,000
$22mil
700,000

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Equal Pay Act …, next … … employees total … in back pay

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1963
10 years
171,000
$84mil

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Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity created by Exec Order … = proportional fed jobs to black Ams

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1961

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invasion of Cuba … = … voters agreed national security most important issue

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(Apr) 1961
63%

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K assassinated

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Nov 1963

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… election against …, J landslide victory … popular vote

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1964
Barry Goldwater
61.1%

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… J declared war on poverty -> top 20% owned … nation’s wealth, bottom 20% …

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(Jan) 1964
77%
0.05%

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1964 … black families classed as poor = annual income below …

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43%
$300

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Economic Opportunity Act … established …

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1964
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)

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by … … states had antipoverty programmes & … families on welfare receiving work training

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Feb 1965
44
25,000

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Head Start programme … enrolled

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nearly 1mil

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J increased fed expenditure on poor from … to …

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$13bn
$20bn

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despite war on poverty … families still below poverty line & infant mortality & unemp .. high for non-white families

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1/3
2x

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Civil Rights Act

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1964

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… S black children still in segregated schools in …

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68%
1968

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Voting Rights Act … -> by … … black pop Mississippi registered, black Ams elected to office increased sixfold …, doubled …

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1965
1968
59%
1965-69
1969-80

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Fair Housing Act

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1968

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Medicare & Medicaid …, Medicare = fed funded health insurance for over … & with disabilities, … enrolled in …

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1965
65s
19mil
1966

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Medicare fees = … by …

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$144bn
1993

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(J) … Ams had never finished high school -> double expenditure on education to …

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54mil
$8bn

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Elementary & Secondary Education Act … = … children benefited

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1965
over 6.7mil

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Higher Education Act … helped … poorer students

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1965
11mil

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college students = … 18-22 year olds …, … by …

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15%
1950
52%
1990

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Demonstration & Model Cities Act … = investment into … - only …

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1966
Chicago, Detroit, Houston, LA & Washington DC
$1.2bn

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Omnibus Housing Act … = rent supplements & … worth low & moderate income housing in cities

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1965
$8bn

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Middle Am = … pop, income = …

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55%
$5,000 - $15,000

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Vietnam War J sent in Am ground troops …, by … … Am soldiers in V

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1965
1968
half mil

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Tet Offensive … = … guerilla Com troops attacked major cities S V = … Ams watched on TV

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30th Jan 1968
80,000
60mil

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polls … = … believed too many receiving welfare who should be working

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1968
84%

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Watts riot in LA … lasted …, … damage, … died

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1965
6 days
$40mil
34

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MLK assassinated … = riots in … cities

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Apr 1968
100

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national student protests sparked by protests against political literature restrictions in … …

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Berkeley, Uni of California
winter 1964-65

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… Stop the Draft Week demonstration in …, … attended march

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1967
Washington
over 100,000

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… … female activists disrupted Miss America beauty pageant

60
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Mattachine Society created …

61
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1968 election … Rep vs … Dem vs … Independent

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Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey (J’s VP)
George Wallace

62
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Nixon’s running mate … Harsh stance against … Black civil rights riots …

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Spiro Agnew
Baltimore
1968

63
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By … … Spent on War on Poverty, … On V War

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1966
$1.2bn
$22bn

64
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…’s influential … Visited V …, witnessed Tet Offensive

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CBS
Walter Cronkite
1968

65
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… US troops massacred … Unarmed civilians at My Lai village … Officers charged with complicity & cover up but in end only … Convicted with murder & reduced to house arrest by N

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Mar 1968
Over 300
25
Mar 1971
Lieutenant William Calley

66
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N appointed conservatives to Supreme Court e.g. …

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Chief Justice Warren Burger

67
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N shrank …, closed … Job Centres

68
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… N announced Family Assistance Plan, rejected by Congress but would have cut parent’s income support if refused to work & limited welfare recipients to … Per year

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1969
$1,600

69
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N had … Approval rating for trying to reduce gov spending & welfare

70
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… CIA & FBI launched Operation Chaos against radical groups

71
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N announced expansion into Cambodia …, students at … Clashed with police & National Guard

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1970
Kent State Uni, Ohio

72
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N vetoed Child Development Act …

73
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Eve … Election … = ‘peace [in V] is at hand’

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1972
National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger

74
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‘Hard Hat Riot’ in … … = … Construction workers

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NYC
May 1970
200

75
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1972 election Reps called Dem … ‘3As’ candidate = …

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George McGovern
acid, abortion & amnesty

76
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1972 election … Vs … -> won … Popular vote & … States

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Richard Nixon
George McGovern
60.7%
49/50

77
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N southern white support rose … 1968 to … 1972

78
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CREEP = …, run by …

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N’s Committee to Re-elect the President
Attorney-General John Mitchell

79
Q

2nd break-in … to …. headquarters in Watergate building discovered

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17th June 1972
Democratic National Convention

80
Q

N paid burglars … to keep quiet, handed over edited tapes …, Sup Court ruled release all tapes …, threatened with impeachment, resigned …

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$430,000
April 1974
July 1974
Aug 1974

81
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War Powers Act …, Ethics in Gov Act … = required senior gov officials disclose finances

82
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Ford vetoed … bills in … presidency

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66
29 month

83
Q

Ford called for tax increases then … tax cut, accepted … tax cut from Congress

84
Q

… global oil prices (set by …) rose … due to …

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1973
Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
4x
Yom Kippur War in Middle East

85
Q

70s stagflation = inflation average … …

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8.2%
1973-83

86
Q

70s stagflation = rising unemp - … … -> … …

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6.5%
Dec 1974
8.9%
May 1975
(recession by 1975)

87
Q

… Com forces overran … = end

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April 1975
Saigon

88
Q

1976 election … vs … -> carried … votes but only … vote

A

Jimmy Carter (won)
Gerald Ford
Southern, union, black & rural protestant
50.1%

89
Q

(C) first … reviewed White House tennis court requests

90
Q

wife … Carter

91
Q

‘Billygate scandal’ = older brother registered foreign agent … ‘loan’ from … gov

A

$220,000
Libyan

92
Q

C … lowest approval any pres

93
Q

C stimulus package cut corporate taxes …

94
Q

C first year unemp fell … to … but by end of … unemp … & inflation …

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8%
7%
1978
10%
13%

95
Q

Islamic revolution Iran = US oil prices … to … a barrel …, cost of living doubled …

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$3
$34
1973-79
1968-78

96
Q

… … Am petrol stations forced to close

A

June 1978
58%

97
Q

C Camp David peace agreement between … & …

A

Israel
Egypt

98
Q

Iranian Hostage Crisis … took … hostages from US embassy

99
Q

Soviet invasion Afghanistan …

100
Q

only … approved C’s foreign policy

101
Q

boycott … Moscow Games joined by … nations

102
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… … felt environment greatest domestic problem, … by …

A

1969
1%
25%
1971

103
Q

membership environmental organisations e.g. … = … 1960, … 1970, … 1980

A

Sierra Club, National Resource Defense Council
125,000
1mil
2mil

104
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J Wilderness Act … added .. new areas to National Park Service & … new National Parks

105
Q

J Water Quality & Clean Air Acts … & Clean Water Restoration Act …

106
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N set up … & …, Clean Air Act … & Endangered Species Act …

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Occupational Safety & Health Administration OSHA)
1970
1973

107
Q

EPA regulations -> catalytic converters & unleaded gasoline in … cut car pollution …

108
Q

F Toxic Substances Control Act … = reduced pollution in cities

109
Q

… Love Canal industrial waste, cost NY State gov … to clean up

A

1978
$30mil

110
Q

C Alaska Lands Act … & renewed Clean Air & Clean Water Act …

111
Q

… evangelical Christians who never voted before helped elect R

112
Q

Roe v Wade …

113
Q

… ran Christian Broadcasting Network & ran for Rep pres nomination

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Reverend Pat Robertson

114
Q

top … televangelists … reached audience …

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8
1980
20mil

115
Q

… set up Baptist Moral Majority organisation …, show Old Time Gospel Hour had audience …

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Baptist minister Jerry Falwell
1979
1.5mil

116
Q

… joined Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum

117
Q

R 1984 election campaign …

A

‘Morning Again in America’

118
Q

R failed to endorse Family Protection Act … = called for …

A

1981
ban abortion, school prayer, tax breaks for wives & mothers stayed home, single sex sports at school, parental censorship reading materials in schools & deny teenage access to contraception unless parents notified

119
Q

‘Reaganised’ judiciary = nominated … conservative judges e.g. … & … as … in …

A

nearly 400
William Rehnquist
Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court justices
1986

120
Q

National Right to Life Committee had … supporters by …

121
Q

… formed Concerned Women for America = … members by … (more than NOW)

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Beverley LaHaye
500,000
mid-80s

122
Q

… R appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to Sup Court

123
Q

… = Missouri could deny women access to public abortion facilities

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Webster v Reproductive Services of Missouri (1989)

124
Q

Roe vs Wade ruling reaffirmed in …

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Planned Parenthood vs Casey (1992)

125
Q

… Sup Court upheld … law crim homosexual intercourse & … other states had similar laws against ‘deviant sexual intercourse’

A

1986
Georgia
24

126
Q

… Ams died of AIDS by …

A

over 46,000
1989

127
Q

… ACT UP (…) created

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1987
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power

128
Q

R’s friend … died …

A

Rock Hudson
1985

129
Q

Ryan White died … -> Ryan White Care Act = … to help victims

A

1990
$220mil

130
Q

by … ACT-UP got … from Congress for research

131
Q

(80s) … Ams used illegal substances & … babies born addicted to cocaine or heroin

A

1/6 (~40mil)
375,000

132
Q

… Nancy R began ‘Just Say No’ campaign = travelled … & visited … cities in … states

A

1982
250,000 miles
65
33

133
Q

by … … Just Say No clubs

A

1988
12,000

134
Q

… Drug-Free Workplace Act = unis & contractors receiving fed gov money had to be drug free

135
Q

by … … spent enforcing drug laws per year

136
Q

R reduced budget … fed programmes & cut staff regulatory agencies … on average

137
Q

inflation … 1980, … 1988

138
Q

unemp … 1980, … 1988

139
Q

US national debt … when Bush became pres

A

$2.7 trillion

140
Q

Bush raised fed income tax … to … in …

A

28%
31%
1990

141
Q

Bush cut military & domestic spending … & Federal Reserve Board lowered interest rates to …

A

$492bn
3.5%

142
Q

R inc military spending by … over …

A

~$1.6 trillion
5 years

143
Q

Bush intervened in Panama in … against military dictator …

A

1989
General Manuel Noriega

144
Q

Bush liberated Kuwait against Iraqi dictator … in … -> sent … troops, only … Ams died

A

Saddam Hussein
1991
700,000
136

145
Q

… R attempted to nominate Robert Bork as Sup Court judge

146
Q

… challenged Bush for Rep nomination …

A

Pat Buchanan
1992

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