1. Everything Else
USH-8

2. I. Women’s Rights National Organization for Women (NOW)
To promote rights for and help women
Grew out of the Civil Rights Movement
Roe v Wade (1973)
A state could not make abortion illegal
Equal Rights Amendment
Guaranteed equal rights for women
Passed Congress, but not the states

3. II. President Johnson Civil Rights Act of 1964
Guaranteed rights for AA
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Enforcement of the 15th Amendment
Great Society
War on Poverty
Medicare
65 and older
Medicaid
Low income

4. III. President Nixon
Limited civil rights and Great Society to gain white southern support
Turned Democratic “solid South” into a strong Republican area
Environmental laws
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Earth Day

5. III. President Nixon Watergate Scandal
The Democratic National Committee’s office was broken into
Paid burglars w/money to re-elect Nixon
Nixon administration covered up the break-in
Congress impeaches Nixon
He resigned before he could be removed from office

6. IV. President Reagan Reagan is elected in 1980 Creates “Reaganomics”
Cutting taxes to the wealthy
Cutting gov’t spending
Thought money would “trickle down” from wealthy
Use the money to open businesses that needed workers
Opponents thought the opposite

7. IV. President Reagan Created another arms race with Soviet Union
Too expensive for communist economy to keep up
Helps to end the Cold War

8. V. Middle East US allied with Israel and has helped protect them
Arab neighbors
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Camp David Accords
Carter had Begin (Israel) and Sadat (Egypt) sign a peace treaty between their countries
Receive/share a Nobel Peace Prize

9. V. Middle East Persian Gulf War (1990-91) Iraq invaded Kuwait
The US started an international coalition to remove them
Operation Desert Storm
War is over in 6 months
482 coalition forces killed
Over 30,000 Iraqis killed
US left after the war and placed sanctions on Iraq
Left Saddam in power

10. V. Middle East
US bases in Saudi Arabia upset lots of Muslims in the area
Groups like al Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, etc.
Leads to 9/11
US invades Iraq and Afghanistan to prevent the harboring of terrorists

11. V. Middle East Arab Spring (2011)
Revolutions in many Arab nations lead to the overthrow or over haul of many gov’ts
US gave aid to some pro-democratic groups
US embassy is attacked in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11/12 after Libya’s gov’t fell