Enduring Vision Chapter 30 Notes

Identifications * Yuppies/VCRs/Three knot Island * Yuppies young, urban professionals who wore ostentatious gear such Rolex watches or BMW cars. they came to symbolize the increased character line of wealth and materialism of the Statesns in the mid-eighties, equal decade of greed, stop being radical, unhinged about weight. * VCRs video cassette recorders became popular in the recent 70s that onlyowed resumeers to tape and view later their favorite programs and to rent movies on cassette.As entertainment became privatized, families stayed home with the VCR quite of going to the movies * Three Mile Island 1979 an chance event at the nuclear plant at this location that ca handlingd a radiation wetting and forced the evacuation of 140,000 people expert the site. the story made headlines around the initiation and seemed to confirm peoples fears about nuclear power. * roe v. wade/Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)/AIDS/moral Majority/televangelists * Roe v. Wade the 1973 everyw herebearing Court close holding that a state ban on solely abortions was unconstitutional. he decision forbade state interpret over abortions during the foremost trimester of pregnancy, permitted states to limit abortions to entertain the mothers health in the second trimester, and permitted states to comfort the foetus during the third trimester * Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) a constitutional amendment originally introduced in sexual coitus in 1923 and passed by congress in 1972, stating that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by all state on account of sex. patronage public corrobo evaluate, the amendment fai lead to acquire the necessary support from three-fourths of the state legislatures. DID NOT bless * AIDS AIDS epidemic in the 1970s made many Americans more(prenominal) cautious in their sexual behavior. * example Majority political organization of the join States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian -oriented political lobbying. organise by Jerry Falwell. organization made up of button-down Christian political sue committees which campaigned on issues its personnel believed were important to maintaining its Christian conception of moral law. his free radical pressured for principle that would ban abortion and ban the states credenza of homosexuality. * Televangelists ministers who would spread their messages via television networks * Gerald R. cut through/ upgrade/Mayaguez incident/ resource of 1976 * Gerald R. Ford Nixons vice chairperson after Agnew resigned he became the only electric chair never to be elected. Taking office after Nixon resigned, he pardoned Nixon for all federal crimes that he act or may have committed. * get ahead Whip Inflation Now a program by the ford giving medication to curb inflation and dramatic harm increases by putting pressure on worryes to lower prices and deter consumers from hording goods. Did not unfeignedly work. Start due to OPEC * Mayaguez incident in May of 1975, Cambodian communists seize the beam Mayaguez and 39 Americans are held warranter. In requital the president ordered bombing on Cambodia and the launch of a rescue committee * Election of 1976 open up Carter/democrat vs.Gerald Ford/republican= carter wins * Jimmy Carter/ approve canalise/ boater canal Treaty/ flavor II/Iran hostage crisis/ coterie David * Jimmy Carter from Georgia was viewed as a cap outsider with no political ties and no scandals, people thought he would deal fresh ideas * stressed human rights. because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an trade embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Created the discussion section of energy and the department of education. e was criticized for his go across of the panama canal zone * Love supply a neighborhood in Niagara falls, New York, which became the subject of communityal and internationalist attention, controversy, and eve ntual environmental notoriety by-line the disco genuinely of 21,000 tons of toxic mishandle buried beneath the neighborhood * cooking panama Canal Treaty 1978 passed by president carter, these cal lead for the gradual return of the Panama Canal to the people and organisation of panama.Very controversial. The people were not happy. * SALT II ( strategical fortification limit point agreement) superpowers pledged to limit nuclear arms production, although signed it was never officially canonic by the American senate * Iran hostage crisis in November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The carter judicatory tried unsuccessfully to accomplish for the hostages release. n January 20, 1981, the daytime carter left office, Iran released the Americans, closing curtain their 444 days in captivity * Camp David peace talks in the midst of Egypt and Israel intermediate by president carter * they led to a peace treaty the next grade that returned the Sinai peninsula to Egypt, guaranteed Israeli access to the red sea and Suez canal, and more-or-less normalized diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries. his isolated Egypt from the other Arab countries and led to Sadats assassination in 1981 * Ronald Reagan/Reagan whirling/Reaganomics/deregulation/Contras/Grenada/capital of Lebanon bombings * Ronald Reagan elected president in 1980 and again in 1984. he ran on a campaign ground on the common man and democrat ideas. Had participated in McCarthy trials. Iran released hostages on his inauguration day in 1980. he used the strategic disaffirmation initiative to avoid conflict. his meetings with Gorbachev were the stolon steps to ending the cold war. e was also responsible for the Iran-contra affair which bought hostages with guns * Reagan rotary motion increased defense spending decreased accessible programs and cut taxes they were based on supply side theory of ripening the economy b y cutting government interference and taxes. attempt to return America to the traditional values of church, family, and free enterprisingness * Reaganomics these policies combined a monetarist fiscal insurance, supply-side(cut income taxes), and internal budget cutting. heir goal was to slash the size of the federal government and give birth economic growth, unemployed started going plump for to work * it included tax breaks for the rich, supply-side economics, and slobber down theory * Deregulation the lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities for which government rules had been established and that bureaucracies had been created to parcel out * Contras a Nicaraguan rebel group that got financial support from the CIA. his group was organise as a response to the overthrowing of Anastazio Somoza Debayle * Grenada a small Latin nation where a communist government had taken power. Reagan invaded the country in protest of communist expansion, m asking that he was not pursuing detente. Beirut bombings Lebanon 1983 two truck bombs struck start out buildings housing united states and French armament forces killing 299 Americans and Frenchmen suicide bombers led to the withdrawal of the international peace make unnecessarying force from Lebanon Reagan administration was is severely criticized for its foreign policy * SDI/Election of 1984/Iran-Contra Affair/Mikhail Gorbachev/START/INF Treaty/Pan Am 103 * SDI Reagans proposed strategic defense initiative (1983), also known as star ars, called for a land- or space-based vindication against a nuclear fervidness. Although SDI was criticized as impracticable and in violation of the antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty, congress approved billions of dollars for development. * Election of 1984 republican Ronald Reagan (won in a landslide) democrat Walter Mondale (running mate Geraldine Ferraro foremost woman candidate). Iran-Contra Affair president Reagan trustworthy the off- the-books sale of stolen weapons from the pentagon to Iran in order to stemma the Nicaraguan contras congress had forbidden him to use government funds to support the contras helped keep Iraq from winning the Iraq-Iran war (did not command a middle eastern superpower) very illegal (Iran was considered a terrorist state) and almost caused Reagan to be impeached * Mikhail Gorbachev soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the cold war and whose home(prenominal) policy introduced major(ip) reforms * START strategical Arms Reduction Talks, talks between the united states and the soviet confederation in which reductions in missiles and nuclear warheads, not merely a limitation on increases, were negotiated * INF Treaty 1987 agreement between the join States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, DC. by US. President Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev on December 8, 1987. he treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with in termediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km (300-3,400 miles). under the treaty both nations were allowed to inspect each others armed services installations * Pan Am 103 1988 Libyan terrorist attack on US destroyed American plane (bomb) worst terrorist attack on us until 9/11 (270 killed) Questions 1. Which social activist dejection of the 1960s go along strongly in the 1970s and 1980s? Why? a. The environmental movement proceed strongly in the 1970s and 1980s. It gained impulse with Rachel Carsons Silent Spring, and the environmental laws of the 1960s and the start of Earth Day in 1970.The creation of groups such as sierra Club and Greenpeace, for which membership increased greatly. Campaigns to publish animals, plants, and the ocean were launched. In the 1970s environmentalists attacked the nuclear plants employing rallies and protests. The Three Mile Island incident and the chinaware Syndrome movie also aided in Environment change. b. The womans movement also contin ue strongly. With the Roe v. Wade decision, and the ERA 2. What was theRoev. Wadedecision? Why did it prove to be politically divisive throughout the 1980s and archean 1990s? c. Roe v. Wade was the 1973 imperative Court decision holding that a state ban on all abortions was unconstitutional.The decision forbade state control over abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy, permitted states to limit abortions to protect the mothers health in the second trimester, and permitted states to protect the fetus during the third trimester. d. The decision proved controversial, peculiarly with the Evangelicals who were pro-life. The women, however, responded with Pro-life campaigns, which polls revealed represented the absolute majority of Americans. 3. How did prospects for Native Americans improve in the late 1960s and 1970s? What significant problems continued to plague American Indians? e. Acts of militancy by the Native Americans caused the government to give the native Austr alian Americans more rights over their lives and the reservations. Pride in being Native grew.The natives also launched business ventures on the reservations, making a carve up of doe. They also gained the rights guaranteed in previous treaties. Alcoholism, disease, and in high spirits unemployment rates still affected the reservations solely they still gained prosperity as a whole. 4. In what ways did religious religious belief play a more determinant cultural and political role in the 1970s and 1980s? f. The evangelists took on conservative backlash against the radical changes in America. They first made movements against Roe v. Wade which led to the government stopping Medicaid for abortions. It also stopped the passing of the ERA bill. It also retrogressed the alert rights movement. New groups formed with religion and uncanny questioning.The moral majority formed the pro-life, pro-family, pro-moral, and pro-American crusade. Televangelists appeared on TV across the nation reaching millions of viewers. 5. What were the troubles that overwhelmed the Carter administration and prevented Carters reelection? g. Carter gave the Panama Canal back to Panama. His sheltering of the Shah in Iran led to the hostage situation in Iran. The Iranians abused the American flag, and had anti-American mobs. Inflation grew sharply worse as a second major oil crisis drove up prices. The federal official Reserve Board pushed the discount rate ever higher. With the cost of both credit and oil so high, economic act deteriorated to stagflation. Carters reign was cursed.