Everything Else USH-8

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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