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c. 1968-1991:
The Late Cold War

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c. 1968-1991:
The Late Cold War

Essential Questions

  • What events led to Richard Nixon's resignation as President in 1974?
  • What accounted for the changes in American attitudes during the 1970s?
  • What were the goals of American foreign policy during the Ford and Carter years, and how successful were Ford's and Carter's policies?
  • What spurred the rise of conservatism in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
  • What were the major characteristics of the conservative Reagan Revolution?
  • What were Reagan's foreign policies, and how did they contribute to the fall of communism in Europe?

Learning Objectives

You will learn:
  • How and why the Watergate burglary led to a cover up by President Richard Nixon and his staff, a Congressional investigation, and the first resignation of a United States president
  • How the foreign policy initiative of “détente” guided the international affairs of the Nixon administration during the Cold War
  • How an increase in oil prices and government spending during the Vietnam War led to “stagflation” and a national economic recession during the 1970s
  • How and why arguments over energy use and resources impacted domestic politics and policy
  • How the ‘Conservative/Reagan Revolution’ of the 1980’s and beyond addressed issues of social and racial injustice and how it impacted American political and economic systems
  • How and to what extent the policy of supply-side economics or “Reaganomics” worked and how it impacted the American economy at the end of the 20th Century
  • How and to what extent United States foreign policy has been guided by international human rights and the advancement of democracy since World War I
  • How Cold War polices of compromise and confrontation with the Soviet Union guided United States presidential administrations from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush
  • How and to what extent the Reagan administration’s escalation of defense spending and use of anti-communist rhetoric contributed to the end of the Cold War
  • How and why the domestic ‘War on Drugs’ led to United States intervention in Columbia, Panama, and other Latin American nations in the late 20th century
  • How, why and to what extent the United States recognition and support of Israel since 1948 has influenced American foreign policy and relationships in the Middle East

Key Terms

The Nixon and Ford Eras
Richard Nixon
Southern strategy
Silent majority
Law and order
Henry Kissinger
Spiro Agnew
Realpolitik
Détente
SALT I
New Federalism
Revenue sharing
Family Assistance Plan (FAP)
Entitlement program
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Yom Kippur War
OPEC
Energy crisis
Stagflation
Affirmative action
Reverse discrimination
William Rehnquist
Watergate
H.R. Haldeman
John Erlichman
John Mitchell
Committee to Reelect the President
John Sirica
Saturday Night Massacre
Impeachment
25th Amendment
Executive privilege
Gerald Ford
Presidential pardon of Nixon
WIN
Helsinki Accords
The Carter Era
Jimmy Carter
Reverse discrimination
Regents of University of California v. Bakke, 1978
Crisis of confidence/malaise speech
National Energy Act of 1978
Amnesty
Human rights
SALT II
Boat people
Panama Canal Treaty of 1977
Camp David Accords
Anwar el-Sadat
Menachem Begin
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Shah of Iran
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Iran Hostage Crisis
Department of Energy
Department of Education
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Reagan Era
Christian fundamentalist
Televangelist
New Right
Moral Majority
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Supply-side economics/"trickle-down" economics/Reaganomics/voodoo economics
Deregulation
Airline deregulation
Budget deficit
Air traffic controller strike
AIDS
Sandra Day O’Connor
Strategic Defense Initiative
1983 US invasion of Grenada
1983 Beirut barracks bombings
Challenger disaster
Savings and Loan Crisis
Sandinistas
Contras
Iran-Contra Affair
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
INF Treaty
Tiananmen Square
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Jesse Jackson
Geraldine Ferraro
L. Douglas Wilder
Lauro Cavazos
Antonia Coello Novello
Article: The Real Origins of the Religious Right

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

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The Late Cold War: Nixon-Bush from Dave Phillips

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This chapter examines the impact of the collapse of Communism on international stability; the resurgence of the American economy during the 1990s; and the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton.
Watergate
Crisis of Political Leadership
Restraining the Imperial Presidency
New Style Presidents
Wrenching Economic Transformations
The Age of Inflation
Oil Embargo
Foreign Competition
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No Islands of Stability
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The Celebration of Wealth
The Reagan Doctrine
A Remarkable Ideological Turnaround
The Reagan Revolution in Perspective
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Collapse of Communism

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