1.
Running on Empty
(Chapter 30)
HI 1 12, US HISTORY I I
FALL 2014
WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY
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2.
"...I think that the Watergate tragedy is the greatest tragedy this
country has ever suffered. I used to think that the Civil War was
our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were
some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some
spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no
redeeming features in Watergate."
-- Senator Sam Ervin

3.
Consequences and Legacies of Watergate
Widespread disillusionment and cynicism
Due process of law v. the “imperial” presidency
Church Committee in Congress: systematic administrative power abuses
Press became more vigilant & aggressive
1973 War Powers Act
1974 Fair Campaign Practices Act
1978 strengthened the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
1974 strengthened the Freedom of Information Act

4.
Manufacturing as Percent of Gross Product
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5.
US Oil Production and Imports

6.
OPEC Oil Embargo
OPEC = Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
1973-1974

7.
Americans evacuating from Saigon, 29 April 1975

8.
Election of 1976
Gerald Ford & Bob Dole
Jimmy Carter &
Walter Mondale

9.
National “Malaise”
 “Crisis of Confidence” ?
 Low productivity, corporate stagnation
 Declining union membership
 Stagflation = rising unemployment + inflation in
wages and prices
 Up to 13% inflation in the 1970s
 Mortgage rates up to 18 – 19% by early 1980s
 Energy conservation a hard sell
 1 in 3 auto worker jobs lost 1978-1982

10.
Carter’s Diplomacy 1977-1980
 Effort to use human rights in foreign policy decision-making
 Return of canal to Panama
 Cold War détente with China and USSR (SALT II)
 Opposition to USSR invasion of Afghanistan
 Covert CIA support of Afghan mujahideen & Taliban
 Camp David accords, but no Palestinian solution

11.
Iran Hostage Crisis Nov 1979 – Jan 1981

12.
1968
1972
1976
Election of 1980
1980

13.
Reagan Revolution
• Steep federal spending & income tax cuts
• Hostility towards unions, regulation
• Embrace of free-market
• Privatization of govt functions
• Supply side economic theory
• Joined by pieces of old New Deal coalition
• Boost in military spending
• Return to Cold Warrior mode

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15.
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16.
Election of 1984
Reagan – Bush Walter Mondale – Geraldine Ferraro

17.
Rogue Foreign Policy
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Iran-Contra Affair

19.
Lt. Col. Oliver North
Fawn Hall, North’s secretary
NSC Advisor John M. Poindexter
Fawn Hall

20.
Ronald
Reagan
Mikhail
Gorbachev

21.
Election of 1988
Michael Dukakis & Lloyd Bentsen
George H. W. Bush & Dan Quayle

22.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 1989
Berlin, 1989

23.
Operation Desert Storm
January 1991

24.
America and the Post-Cold War World
 New technological, volunteer military force
 Now includes women
 Close media control, “video game-like”
 US as police force? Or hired mercenary?
 Stimulated anti-American feeling across Islamic
world
 Access to oil a major driving force of US foreign
policy