Moving towards modern-day America

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

Nixon Doctrine In cases involving other types of

aggression, we shall furnish military and economic assistance when requested in accordance with our treaty commitments. But we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defense.

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 DownfallPresidential 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” economics

Economic 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’tAir 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

Challenger Crew

Scandals in the White House (again…)Iran-Contra hearings

Oliver NorthPresident Reagan in the later yearsThe Election of 1988

Lt. Col. Oliver North

President George Bush

Bush’s domestic agendaThe “Veto” PresidentAmericans with Disabilities Act

Foreign Events during the 1980’s-1990’sThe fall of the Soviet Union

The Berlin Wall comes downStudents 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 PolicyAmericorpsHealth 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

Welcome Back Mrs. Stanley!!!

Foreign affairs in the 1990’sBosniaKosovoIsraeli-Palestinian Conflict

TerrorismKenya and TanzaniaIraqDesert Fox

The Economy in the 1990’sLarge 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

Hurricane Katrina

Take Five Who was ultimately responsible for

Hurricane Katrina?

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