70s

New Federalism 

  • A plan to give a portion of federal power to state and local governments

  • Decrease influence of national government

Southern Strategy

  • Nixon's strategy of appealing to southern voters by slowing integration to schools

  • Actively opposing the desegregation process

Stagflation

  • High inflation and high unemployment

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

  • Countries that supplied the US with much of its oil

  • The OPEC cut off all exports with the US when we sent aid to israel

Detente

  • Easing of hostile relations

  • When nixon visited China he eased tensions and established a relationship with them around the Soviet Union

SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty)

  • Nixon visits Moscow and had meetings called the SALT talks

  • Nixon and Brezhnev signed the SALT treaty which was a five year agreement that limited the amount of ICBMS 

  • The nations agreed to demilitarize and ease tensions

Rachel Carson

  • influenced the global environmental and conservation movements.

  • Felt that DTD killed wildlife and hurt our ecosystems

Silent Spring

  • Talks about the hard the DTD pesticide can do to the environment

  • Written by Rachel Carson

  • Reflects on the influence of environmentalism and ecology on policy

Ecology

  • Science of interrelatedness of the natural world(ex: ecosystems, food chains, biodiversity)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  • Federal agency for the regulation of water and air pollution, toxic waste, pesticides, and radiation

  • Initiative by Nixion

Clean Air Act of 1970 and Clean Water Act of 1972

  • Empowered EPA to make regulations for air and pollution in water

  • Established the basic structure for regulating pollutant discharges into the waters of the United States

  • Gave EPA the authority to implement pollution control programs such as setting wastewater standards for industry.

Watergate scandal

  • Raised questions of public trust that still affect how the public views politicians

  • Arising from Nixon administration

  • An attempt to cover up involvement in a breakin at the Democratic /national Committee HQ in the Watergate hotel

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

  •  seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.

  • Phyllis Schalfly can be credited to the ERA not being passed because of her persistent protest and opposition toward the amendment

Gerald Ford

  • Pardons Nixon for any crimes he may or may have committed

  • Took over the presidency after Nixon resigns

    • People thought doing that was wrong

  • Lost next election very very very badly

WIN (Whip Inflation Now)

  •  attempt to spur a grassroots movement to combat inflation in the US, by encouraging personal savings and disciplined spending habits in combination with public measures, urged by U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Jimmy Carter

  • He was liked by the public because he was an outsider and not directly linked to DC, so the public trusted him more

  • Peanut farmer from Georgia

  • Bad at foreign policy because he let Iran take a bunch of Americans hostage

  • Carter dealt with the energy shortage by proclaiming a national energy policy and by deregulating domestic petroleum prices to stimulate production. 




Camp David Accords

  • Through 12 days of talks between Egyptian and Israeli leaders at Camp David in 1978, he achieved a peace agreement between the two countries called the Camp David Accords.

Three Mile Island

  • A cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in a reactor. Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents.

  • The nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island power plant triggered a number of serious problems, including a near financial crisis as they moved to purchase high-cost replacement power to maintain service to their customers.

Iran Hostage Crisis

  •  an international crisis that began in November 1979 when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. The crisis took place in the wake of Iranian Revolution because the US appointed leader wa very bad but not communist

Election of 1980

  • The Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.

  • Reagan campaigned for

    •  increased defense spending

    • supply-side economic policies

    • a balanced budget. 

  • His campaign was aided by Democratic dissatisfaction with Carter, the Iran hostage crisis, and a worsening economy marred by stagflation.