moving towards modern- day america. election of 1964 barry goldwaterlyndon b. johnson
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Moving towards modern-day America
Election of 1964
Barry Goldwater Lyndon B. Johnson
Blue = Democrat JohnsonRed= Republican Goldwater
President Johnson
Revisiting the “Great Society”
The BIG 4: Aid to education Medical care for the elderly Immigration reform New voting rights bill
Education & Society “War on poverty”
Office of economic opportunity ($2billion) $1billion for foothills of Appalachian mtns Medicare (elderly) Medicaid (poor)
Federal money to schools Head Start
National endowments for the arts & humanities
Dept. of Transportation & HUD
Immigration…
Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965 Eliminates the quota system Strict limits on Western Hemisphere
for the 1st time “Family unification”—allowing family
members of naturalized “Americans” Opens door to many more immigrants esp.
Asians
Civil Rights
Civil right act of 1964 (desegregates all public facilities)
Title VII-1965 (on the basis of sex) EEOC (Equal Employment
Opportunity commission) Affirmative Action
The Politics of President Nixon
World Affairs
Communist China (Détente)Henry Kissinger
Soviet UnionSALT I
Nixon DoctrineCrises in the Middle East
Yom Kippur WarOPEC
Domestic policy and demise
Reduction of the “Great Society”Creation of the EPA & OSHAClean Air Act of 1970“Stagflation”Title IX (opens athletic opportunities to females)Educational Amendments Act of 1972Watergate
Vice President Spiro AgnewU.S. v Richard M. NixonImpeachment hearings
The Supreme CourtThe “Warren” court and the “Burger” courtRetirement of Chief Justice Earl Warren
Blackmun, Powell, RehnquistCourt legislation
Engel v Vitale Miranda v. ArizonaSwann v Charlotte-MecklenburgRoe v Wade
President Gerald Ford
Ford’s Downfall
Presidential pardonHelsinki AccordsRecession of 1974 & 1975Federal Election Campaign Act of
1974
President Jimmy Carter
Carter PoliticsEnergy and economics
Dept. of Energy, Dept. of EducationVoluntary constraintFuel shortage“Malaise” speech
Lines at the gas stations
World AffairsAdvocate of Human RightsSoviet Union
SALT IIAfghanistan
The Panama CanalEgyptian-Israelis Peace Treaty—”Camp David” AccordsOpening the door to ChinaIranian hostage crisis
The Shah of IranAyatollah Khomeini
Boycott of the Summer Olympic GamesElection of 1980Jimmy Carter since his Presidency
President Ronald Reagan
The Excess of the 80’s
“Big Hair”
Reaganomics
“supply-side” economicsEconomic Recovery Tax ActTax Reform Act
deregulation of natural gas productioncutting funding for domestic programs
Are the “Yuppies” running the country?
Reagan-Pro Big Business and Gov’t
Air Traffic controller’s strikeS & L Scandal
Reagan’s foreign policy“Star Wars”Reagan Doctrine
Latin AmericaMiddle East
Bombing in Lebanon South Africa and Apartheid
Thawing of the cold warMeeting with Gorbachev
“Glasnost” & “Perestroika”START
The Cold War Thaws
Bombing of the Marine barracks in Beruit
The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Scandals in the White House (again…)
Iran-Contra hearingsOliver North
President Reagan in the later yearsThe Election of 1988
Lt. Col. Oliver North
President George Bush
Bush’s domestic agenda
The “Veto” PresidentAmericans with Disabilities Act
Foreign Events during the 1980’s-1990’s
The fall of the Soviet UnionThe Berlin Wall comes down
Students rally at Tiananmen SquareThe Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
The Election of 1992
William Jefferson Clinton (D)George Bush (R)Ross Perot (I)
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Clinton’s Domestic Policy
AmericorpsHealth Care Reform Plan
Hillary Rodham Clinton“Don’t ask, don’t tell” policyOklahoma city bombingNAFTA
Scandal in the White House(again, again, again…)
White water scandalPaula Jones scandalMonica Lewinsky
Special Investigator Kenneth Starr
Foreign affairs in the 1990’s
BosniaKosovoIsraeli-Palestinian Conflict
TerrorismKenya and TanzaniaIraq
Desert Fox
The Economy in the 1990’s
Large stock market gainsBooming business in IT
The InternetComputer “geeks” turn millionaires!
Steve JobsBill GatesMichael Dell
The Election of 2000
George W. Bush (R) Albert Gore (D) Pat Buchanan (I) Ralph Nadar (I)
Disputed Election Returns
George W. Bush
The Bush Family
President George W. Bush
Politics and policy Tax Rebate Ongoing war on terrorism
September 11th attacks Restructuring the federal government
The creation of HomeLand Security
Topics in recent historyTerrorism and the hatred of Americans
The September 11th AttacksBiological and chemical warfareEnergy crisis-will we have enough?
High gas pricesEnvironmental issues-are we destroying our
world?Going green
School violenceColumbine
Legislative issues-”One Nation Under God”Legalization of Gay Marriages
Homelessness
Urban renewal of NYC
The way things were…
September 11th
U.S. Marines in Afghanistan
Bombing of Baghdad 2003
Historic Election 2008