HIST 1103 Lecture 35: the 1970s
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The (cid:1005)97(cid:1004)"s (cid:862)the (cid:858)me(cid:859) de(cid:272)ade: a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s(cid:863) In march 1973, the last american troops were withdrawn: 58,200 american troops dead and 1. 4 million total, my lai massacre. Happened in 1968 but was publicized in 1969. Us troops murdered and raped the civilians of my lai. 22 troops went on trial in 1971: the war powers act of 1973 stated that congress must be involved in the war in order to help with the checks and balances put in place. Political scandal: watergate, nixon resigned august of 1974. Economic decline: oil crisis of 1973: the arabic countries of opac took their oil off of the global market because the us backed israel, stagflation: the prices of everything increases and unemployment increases. The first time in the twentieth century that the us imported more than it exported. Working moms became a thing because it became impossible to live off of a one-person income.
