HIST 2013 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Iran Hostage Crisis, Equal Rights Amendment, Presidency Of Ronald Reagan
25 Aug 2016
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Review: decade of limits: stagflation, oil shocks, iran hostage crisis (1979) Students and militants take diplomats and staff hostage at us embassy. Covert operations team sent in to free hostages helicopter crashes: cold war. A new coalition: the religious right (southern, midwestern, rural whites) source of voters. Dominion theory just being moral isn"t enough anymore. God gave you usa and was gift to christians. It is now their dominion must get active in politics. Equal rights amendment: everyone is entitled to equal rights. Roe v. wade (1973: women control their own bodies, therefore they can have abortions. Piss christ: occurs early in 1980s tax-payer funded organization hosts an art exhibit in washington dc cup of urine and a crucifix and. Jesus in it: reagan democrats (middleclass suburban whites in the west; working class whites in the north) source of voters. California proposition 13: taxes to link coalition, business-activist movement (wall street, big business) source of money and innovative idea.
