1. May 15, 2017
U.S. History Agenda:
DO NOW: Term Matching
NOTES #64: What important events occurred during the 1970s and 1980s?

2. What important events occurred during the 1970s and 1980s? Notes #64
President
Richard Nixon
(1969–1974)
President
Gerald Ford
(1974 –1977)
President
Jimmy Carter
(1977–1981)
President
Ronald Reagan
(1981–1989)

3. Richard Nixon with running-mate Spiro Agnew
Election of 1968

4. U.S. leaves Vietnam (March 29, 1973)
In 1973, President Richard Nixon ended the involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.
U.S. leaves Vietnam (March 29, 1973)

5. As a result of the Vietnam War, the War Powers Act was passed in 1973 to limit the president’s ability to send U.S. troops into combat abroad.

6. Nixon used a policy of détente to decrease Cold War tensions.
Nixon with China’s
communist leader Mao Zedong
Nixon with Soviet Union
communist leader Leonid Brezhnev

7. Election of 1972

8. In 1972, it was discovered that advisors of Nixon tried to spy on the Democrats, which Nixon illegally tried to cover-up.
Watergate apartment complex;
Washington, D.C.
The Washington Post reporters
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

9.  Watergate hearings (1973)
“I’m not a crook!”

10. Rep. Gerald Ford becomes new vice president (December 6, 1973)
Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after
being accused of taking bribes and income
tax evasion as Governor of Maryland
(October 10, 1973)
Rep. Gerald Ford becomes
new vice president
(December 6, 1973)

11. Nixon’s resignation speech (August 8, 1974)
This Watergate scandal resulted in Nixon resigning from office in 1974.
Nixon’s resignation speech (August 8, 1974)

12. Ford pardons Nixon
(September 8, 1974)
Gerald Ford sworn in as president (August 9, 1974)

13. Jimmy Carter with running-mate Walter Mondale
Election of 1976
Jimmy Carter with running-mate Walter Mondale

15. In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries placed an embargo on oil imported by the U.S., . . .
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
(Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela)

16. . . . which increased oil’s cost and hurt the U.S. economy during the 1970s.
1970s energy crisis

17. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter helped negotiate the Camp David Accords, which established peace between Egypt and Israel.
Egypt’s Prime Minister Anwar El Sadat shakes hands
with Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin

18. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi;
Former shah (king) of Iran
until being overthrown during
1979 Iran Revolution
Iran’s supreme leader
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
(1979–1989)
Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981):
For 444 days, 52 Americans were
held hostage in Iran

19. Ronald Reagan with running-mate George H. W. Bush
Election of 1980
Ronald Reagan with running-mate George H. W. Bush

20. January 20, 1981

21. “Supply-side economics”
During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan lowered federal income tax rates to create an economic boom for the U.S.
“Supply-side economics”

23. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini Anti-communist contra rebels
In the Iran-Contra affair of 1986, Americans learned that the U.S. was selling weapons to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua.
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini
Anti-communist contra rebels

24. Reagan was cleared of any crimes, but this affair and the Watergate scandal undermined public trust in elected government leaders.
 Lt. Col. Oliver North