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Political: 1. The Camp David Accords helped solve long-standing violence between Eygpt and Israel 2. The SALT II treaty limited the size to nuclear delivery systems 3 SALT I secured Soviet consent to a freeze on the number of ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads 4 Paris Accords of January 1973 promised a cease fire and free elections 5 Immigration Reform and Control Act Economic: 1. Inflation lead to the national deficit increasing to $60 billion. 2 revenue sharing, aka new federalism: congress approved giving local govts $30 billion in block grants over 5 years to address local needs as they saw fit 3 economy throughout 1970s: economic slowdown + high inflation = stagflation 4 widespread poverty on reservations 5 Tribally controlled community college assistance act Geographic: 1 In the 1970's after the gov of Cambodia was overthrown, a genocide of the Cambodian people broke out. 2 American public was shocked to learn about a 1968 massacre of women and children by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai 3 Love Falls in Niagara Falls, New York 4 Native Americans assimilate with urban America 5 Nation loses control of borders because of illegal immigrants Social: 1. America's bicentennial celebration helped the American people put the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War in their past 2. Jimmy Carter won 97% of African American people's votes 3 Family Assistance Plan: reform of welfare system proposed by Nixon; rejected and defeated by democrats 4 "silent majority" in the south = democrats such as southern whites, catholic ethnics, blue-collar workers, and recent suburbanites dismayed by liberal drift of party (according to Nixon) 5 Growth of Immigration

Chronology: 1961 Berlin crisis and construction of the Berlin wall Kennedy sends military advisors to South Vietnam 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington DC Kennedy assasinated, Johnson assumes presidency 1964 24th Amendment abolishes poll tax Civil Rights Act Johnson re-elected 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated Robert Kennedy assasinated Nixon wins presidency 1969 Astronauts land on the moon

Mnemonic: SALT II treaty limited the Nuclear launch power of a country

United States loses control of borders because of illegal immigrants

Panama Canal Act transfered control of the Panama canal back to the people of Panama

Embargo was placed on goods imported into the Soviet Union in 1978 after the invasion of Afganastan

Recognized china's communist government in 1979 (Nixon)

Peace was arranged between Eygpt and Israel through the Camp David Accords

O ver abundance of money leads to inflation in the economy

W idespread unemployment on reservations

Economic slowdown and high inflation = stagflation (stagnation plus inflation)

R eform for homosexuals (Gay liberation movement)