Backlash: Nixon, Politics of Polarization, and Vietnam
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Nixon and Polarization

Bring the People Together

uPhillips strategy

uSouthern strategy

uRise of the Sunbelt region

uCourt south

uDesegregation and Supreme Court

uAttack liberals

uEnemies List

uCOINTELPRO

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Archie Bunker’s World
uDemise of the Postwar Economy

upostindustrial economy

uJapanese/Germ competition

uWhite working class response

uBoston and Busing

uDemise of 60s working—class liberalism

 

Nixon and Vietnam
uPromise to end war

uyet get “peace with honor”

uVietnamization

ubring troops home/increase air war

uCambodia bombings

uKent State

uChristmas Bombing (1972)

uTruce-1973; Fall of Saigon-1975

 

The Fall of a President

 

Nixon and Detente

nChina

äImpact of Vietnam

äKissinger and ‘back channels”

äNormalized relations (1972)

nRussia

äSALT 1 Treaty

 

 

Nixon’s New Federalism
nRise of the Environmental Movement and EPA

äSilent Spring (1962)

äSanta Barbara Oil Spill

nNew Federalism

äreverse flow of money and resources away from fed. gov’t and back to states/cities

äRevenue Sharing Act (1972)

–block grants of funds given to states and cities &  let them spend it as they want

 

Watergate
Watergate Break-in

ä“Plumbers”

äCover up Begins

ä1972 Election

nTrial, Hearings, and Tapes

äSaturday Night  Massacre

 

The End of a President
nImpeachment begins

 

nResignation (August 9, 1974)

 

nSignificance of Watergate

äCongress limits pres. power

äCampaign reform

äFreedom of Information Act

äWidens gap of distrust of gov’t

 

 

The 70s, the New Right, and the end of the New Millennium

The 70s Malaise
uDomestic Problems

uEconomy, OPEC, and Oil

upessimism increases

 

Deteriorating Environment and a New Dance Craze

uEnergy Policy and the American West

 

uLove Canal

 

uThree-Mile Island

 

uDisco
 

Peanut Farmer as President: Jimmy Carter

uThe Outsider as President

 

uCarter’s Foreign policy

uMiddle East

uPanama Canal

uHostage Crisis

 

Ronald Reagan and the New Right
uReagan’s Background

 

uRise of New Right

usocial issues, 60s, and anger politics

uabortion, feminism, prayer,

uSunbelt and Anti-gov’t sentiment

uEvangelical Christianity

utelevangelists

uFalwell’s Moral Majority

uConservative Think Tanks

uHeritage Foundation

uProp 13 and Bakke Decision

 

Reagan Revolution

u1980 Election and a New Sheriff

uReagan Democrats

uless gov’t, win Cold War, cut taxes

uReaganomics

 

Reagan Revolution

uVietnam Syndrome and Evil Empire

uGrenada and Nicaragua

uIran-Contra

 

uYuppies, Wall Street, and the Crash

 

The End of the Cold War

uGorbachev

uglasnost

uBerlin Wall

uBush and Desert Storm
 

 

America in the New Millennium

uRodney King and the LA Riots

 

u1992 Election and New  Politics

 

uClinton and the New Millennium

 

uSeptember 11th and New Cold War?