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Oil Shortage
OPEC launched an oil embargo on Israel's supporters, which caused a worldwide oil shortage, sluggish, US economy, a passed spead limit to save gas, and pipeline in Alaska to tap into US oil reserves. -
My Lai Massacre
The public was shocked to learn of the slaughter of women and children in a South Vietnamese Village.
Published by the Pentagon Papers -
President Nixon's Inaugrural Address
Promised to bring Americans together.
Introduction of Vietnamization. -
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Burger Court
-Roe v. Wade, 1973: Pro-abortion
-US v. Nixon, 1974: denied claims of executive priviege, ordered Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes -
Response to Stagflation
-Cut federal Spending
-Keynesian Response
-90 day wage & price freeze
-10% tax on all imports -
3rd Wave of Immigration
Mostly Latinos and Southeast Asians
Began after the Immigration Act of 1965 -
Cambodian Invasion
Was made to destroy Vietnamese Communist Naval bases but caused many protests such as:
-Kent State: 4 students killed by the National Gaurd
-Jackson State: 2 African American Students were killed -
Meetings with China
Nixon had secret talks with Mao Zedong and met him in Beijing. -
End of Recession
Provided an anual cost of living
Increase for SS benefits -
Watergate
-CREEP: men hired by Nixon to break into the Democratic Nationsl Headquarters in Washington, DC
-Plumbers: wiretapped government employees to stop news leaks.
-Enemies list: a list of people who opposed Nixon and the Vietnam War and investigated them -
Election of 1972
Nixon won 60.8% of thhe vote.
Republican majority -
Oval Office Tapes discovered
Nixon claimed "excutive privelege". -
October War
On Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syrians attacked Israel to recover lost land.
Nixon supported Israrl with $2 Billion in arms. -
Pardoned Nixon
1st month in the White House.
Ended the national nightmare -
CIA Investigation
George H Bush was appointed to reform the agency. -
Nixon Resigned
General Ford became president. -
Cambodian Genocide
US Supported government fell to the Khmer Rouge that led to the genocide of one million Cambodians. -
Illegal Immigration
Over 12 million undocumented -
Panama Canal Treaty
By 2000, control of the canal would be transferred to Panama -
US recognized the People's Republic of China
Actually recognized the communist government -
Carter Recogonize the People's Republic of China
SALT II treaty
US feared that China wanted control of he Panama Gulf.
Carter's Response:
-US boycott of the 1980 Olymics
-Embargo on grain and technology to the Soviet Union -
Failed US Rescue Mission