Chapter 39 - The Stalemated Seventies

ERA

ERA

________ sought to guarantee gender equality through words.

OPEC

________ lifted embargo in 1974 and quadrupled price of oil by the end of the decade.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

________ dealt with many controversial decisions.

Nixon

________ ordered an attack on Cambodia in 1970.

Title IX

Prohibited sex discrimination in any federally funded education programs

US Senate

The ________ repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and in 1971, the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, passed.

Griswold

________ v. Connecticut (1965): struck down state law that banned the use of contraceptives but created the "right to privacy.

Anti American Muslim militants

________ stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.

USSR

________ invaded Afghanistan on December 27, 1979.

Philadelphia Plan of 1969

Required construction trade- unions working on federal payroll to establish "goals and timetables" for black employees

Americans

War was generally fought by the lesser- privileged ________.

Cambodia

________ was taken over by Pol Pot.

Gerald Ford

The first unelected president

Jimmy Carter

Won the presidential election with 297-240 electoral votes

Carter

________ put an embargo on the Soviet Union.

War Powers Act

Required the president to report all commitments of U.S. troops within 48 hours to the Congress and set a 90 day limit on those activities (November 1973)

South Vietnam

________ fell to communist North in 1975.

president of Egypt

The ________ and the prime minister of Israel signed accords on September 17, 1978 at Camp David.

U.S. economy

Grew stagnant in the 1970s after economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s

Nixon

________ imposed a 90- day wage freeze and took the nation off of the gold standard.

Nixon

________ was opposed by George McGovern in 1972.

Nixon

________ sent the national security adviser to China to encourage better relations while ________ himself went to Moscow.

Nixon

________ urged America to stop tearing each other apart and cooperate.

Nixon

________ divided Americans into his supporters and his opponents.

Nixon

Urged America to stop tearing each other apart and cooperate

Soviets

Made a deal with the U.S. in fear of a U.S. and China alliance with them making a deal for foodstuffs such as wheat, corn, cereals, etc.

Feminist movement

Became energized and took an aggresive tone during the 1970s