chapter 24: the age of limits

• PAGES 794-796 COVERED IN YOUR BELL RINGER FROM 1-10-2008

• Richard Nixon…

• Against LBJ’s Great Society Programs

• Instead, decrease size and influence of Federal government and give more powers to state and local governments

• Revenue Sharing – state and local government spend federal dollars as they saw fit

• Nixon tried to attract Southern conservative Democrats by appealing to their unhappiness with federal desegregation policies and a liberal Supreme Court

• BY 1968 many white southern Democrats become Republican

• Didn’t like Great Society and Civil Rights (liberals)

• Nixon reverses several civil rights policies

• Department of (HEW) to delay desegregation

• Opposed extension of Voting Rights Act of 1965 (page 104)

•1967-1973 had high inflation and high unemployment

• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

• Oil producing countries of the Middle East

• Jack-Up Oil Prices

• 1972• THIS WAS A

REVERSAL OF HOW WE FELT IN 1949 WHEN WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT

• SOVIET UNION• SALT I TREATY -