HISB31H3 Lecture Notes - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Iran Hostage Crisis, Stonewall Riots
13 Apr 2013
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Morning in america: politics, power and a new world order. Key terms; d tente, salt (strategic arms limitation treaty), opec & energy crisis, stagflation, rustbelt, Iran hostage crisis, busing, jerry fallwell & the moral majority, stonewall riot, supply-side economics or trickle down theory, concession bargaining, air traffic controllers strike, iran contra scandal, inf arms. 1970s, we see a recession: economy had been growing steadily since the 1940s. 1970s, gas shortage: middle east place embargo on us for supporting israel. Rise of the right is also conincident with a decline in confidence in the electorate and their gov"t. Conservatives don"t undo all the social service programs. Nixon is also involved in the "watergate" scandel: he would keep tapes of everything that goes on in his office. Helped start the thaw of the cold war. By the end of the 1970s, people were paying twice as much for basic necessities as they had been at first.
