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1970s: Overview A Decade of Malaise…

Nixon’s The One

The “New Nixon”

( military & Great Society) Stagflation 1. Prices increase due to Consumer Spending + Government Spending ( military & Great Society) = increased demand 2. Foreign Competition

Vietnamization or Cambodianization?

My Lai 1968/1970

Protests by “Bums?”

Détente

Our Friends… the Russians

Domestic, Nixon the Liberal? - Philadelphia Plan (quotas under affirmative action) EPA and OSHA established (Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act) Takes US off gold standard

Watergate

Resignation

“President” Ford Pardons Nixon

Ford’s Plan to Solve the Energy Crisis

Fall of Saigon, 1975

Jimmy and Roselyn’s Inaugural Walk

Camp David Accords

Panama Canal Treaties, 1978

The Energy Crisis and OPEC

“MALAISE SPEECH” “CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE”

Iranian Hostage Crisis 444 Days

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Election of 1980

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