IB History of the Americas

 “New Frontier”  Improve economy  Assist poor  Speed space program  Investigated steel price fixing  Large tax cut (stalled in Congress)

 Berlin Crisis  Bay of Pigs  Cuban Missile Crisis  Alliance for Progress  Peace Corps  Vietnam  Supported Diem regime with advisors  Involved in later overthrow of Diem

 Signed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty  Peace Corps  Increased minimum wage  Funded urban renewal  Abolished poll tax  Equal Pay Act  Defense buildup  Extended Social Security  Expanded National Parks  Combated water pollution  Tightened food & drug laws

 Shortened presidency  Bay of Pigs  Failure of Alliance for Progress  Support of Diem  Worsening of Cold War tensions

 “Great Society”  Poverty aid  Education reform  Healthcare  Economic development  Conservation  Immigration reform

 Dominican Republic (1965)  Vietnam  Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  Operation Rolling Thunder  Significantly increased our involvement in the conflict

 Tax cut improved economy  War on Poverty successes  Head Start  VISTA  Medicare & Medicaid  # of poor cut in half  School funding

 Vietnam became the focus, not Great Society  Deterioration of public opinion about Vietnam

 Deficit spending  “New Federalism”  Slowed civil rights advances

 Opened relations with China  Détente  Arms limitation talks  Vietnam  “Vietnamization”  Cambodia

 Environmental Protection Agency  Reshaped the Supreme Court  SALT I  Paris agreement to end America’s involvement in Vietnam  Détente  Opening China

 Didn’t address existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons  Hindered civil rights movement  Watergate  Economic woes grew  Pentagon Papers  Secret invasion of Cambodia  “Credibility gap”

 Increased unemployment benefits  Tax cut

 Mayaguez incident  Improved relations with Japan  Helsinki Accords  Continued arms limitation talks  Improved relations with Africa  Vietnam  Wanted to prevent fall of South Vietnam

 Reestablished America’s military power in SE Asia  Improved European security

 Nixon pardon destroyed his popularity & cost his party  WIN program failed  Lost battles with Congress  Failed to persuade Congress or the American people to save South Vietnam

 Cut federal spending/social programs  Deregulation  Energy conservation

 Pardoned Vietnam “draft dodgers”  Negotiated peace between Egypt & Israel  Supported Soviet dissidents  Arms limitation talks  Took measures against Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  Allowed Shah of Iran to come to U.S.

 Camp David Accords  SALT II  Number of women and minority appointees

 Distanced his own party  Increased economic woes  Lost support of oil- & gas- producing states  Deterioration of détente  Iran hostage crisis

 Supply-side economics  Cutting taxes  Deregulation  Challenged labor unions  Reducing federal government & social programs

 Defense buildup  Strategic Defense Initiative  Military intervention in the Middle East  Aid to Latin Americans resisting communism

 INF Treaty  Improved Cold War relations  Economic recovery

 Increased federal deficit  Economic recovery uneven  S & L Scandal  Iran-Contra affair