• Soviet Union vs u.s.

• COLD WAR

• battle of ideologies

other stuff

• nixon basically started the neoconservatism

• silent majority - average people who aren’t fighting for rights

  • nixon’s war on drugs - hippies and those in the counterculture movement use drugs

  • this escalated in the 1980s

  • reagan and his wife lead a campaign called “just say no”

    • started a program called “dare” in schools

  • in the 80s, people were thrown in jail for small drug offenses

  • # people in prison boomed