Decades

baby boomer

80 million kids born while dads at WWII- effected schools, social security, jobs

betty friedan

feminine mystique book- fought for women’s movement

Rock ‘N’ Roll

white musicians covered aa songs, elvis→houndog

when did people watch the TV and have tv dinners

50’s

consumerism

the art of making the consumer happy… advertising -sope operas, drive ins, news on the airways

white color

degree

blue color

no college

what was the big medicine in the 50’s

medicine for pollo, vaccine, Dr.jones salk, pediatric disease

LBJ great society

include all war on porverty

head stat

pay for programs before kindergarten

job corps

training+you can work

medicare

healthcare for ederly(old), grey hair

medicade

healthcare for law income (families)

HUD- housing + urban development

cities, government own +rent to low income families, rent controlled

which president was elected in 1968

republican-Nixon

AIM

american Indian movement- bellencourt- Alcatraz prison, violent takeovers, surrender peacefully because government would look into compliant

lazz

bereau of Indian affairs was taken over, gov said they’ll look into there compliants

1973- wounded knee

71 days they hold officers at gun point at wounded knee

watergate-hotel in d.c.

democratic headquarters, creep, nixon tapes got subpeano, nixon resigns before he gets impeached, president Ford pardons nixon

Creep

commite to re-elect the president

Nixons new federalism

domestic policies at home, rep. smaller gov’t less taxeso

osha

workers- occupational safety health administration, tax dollars places are safe before you can work, 14,000 deaths a year, slow us down

EPA

enviromental protection agency- Rachel carson’s silent spring book

clear water act

h/c Cuyahoga river caught in fire, electric busses

affirmitive action

overtime trump removed this practice, merit vs. breaking the action, making things fair for everyine

1973 oil embargo

bigs cars after WWll, used a lot of gas, 8-10mpg-miles per gallon, german- Volkswagen, japenese-toyota, foreign cars sold 25% of America cars

who was president during the earlier 1970’s

Jimmy carter- peanut farmer- D- walked, oil embargo

OPEC

oil embargo, organization petroleum export countries, middle east→ mad at USA because we support Israel, crisis of oil shortage, fuel is running low, even+odd licence plate days, speed limits, locked gas caps

good and bad of nuclear power plants

good- it is cheap, bad- unstable toxic

three mile island

PA- radiation leak

love canal

niagra falls, hooker chemical, burry the waste… toxic, 3000 ft trench, govt bought 239 homes, those left held inspectors hostage (EPA), the rest of the families kept fighting for 2 years, Carter bought the homes, tax dollars paid, found 30,000 other cities

human rights

s. africa→ apartheid- nelson mendela, Carter supports mandela

panama canalc

carter wants to fix our old misatkes, treaty gives the canal back to Canada early

camp David acrods

middle east-1978- Israel+egypt

mariel boatlift- USA+cuba

castro gave people a chance to leave his country…USA, boats came to get them, 125,000→ 15,000 criminals, changes our immigration to make more checks

salt ll talks

strateguc arms limitations treaty- USA/ USSR, USSR invades afganistan, we boycott summer olympics

iranian hostage crisis

shan(USA) vs ayallon(Iran) shah gets treatment in usa-carter, American held hostage in the US embassy building it Iran for 444 days

operation eagle claw

tries to face hostages, backfires- 8 us soldiers die, April 1980

electio of 1980

ronald reagan ® wins by a landslide-iran, after his inauguration the hostages get released

de regulation laissez faire

reducing or removing rules that the government has set for businesses or industries

trickle down

tax cuts for wealthy, they’ll spend more+ it will make its way down the classes… upper/middle

reagan gets shot-1981

brody gets shot as well- reagans cabinet, Brady bill, hinkley ( who shot him) insanity- mental instutution

brady bill

give background checks+ Clinton passes it in 1992 (d)

election of 1984

reagan vs. mandae- vp ferrero female, Reagan wins with a mandate people love ur ideas and should pass ur laws

star wars

regans idea to put missiles in space to defend US (cold war USSR), “tear down this wall” Berlin wall

election of 1988

geaorge h.w. bush- vp Reagan v Micheal Dukakis (d)

bill Clinton election of 1992-(d)

rob Dole ® vs bill Clinton, economic is strong, impeached- house impeached- ®, perjury lie under oath, affair, not removed

election of 2000

bush® v gore, George w bush- jeb bush governor of fl- ‘butterfly ballot’- supreme court decided- bush wins

title 9

added to the civil rightss act of 1964- women in sports in schools (public)-1972, probability- 51% girls means 51% girls in sports, progress- add to a regular basis, satisisfied intrest-hackey sack