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1 Chapter 31 Power and Politics Since 1974 © 2003 Wadsworth Group All rights reserved.

2 Gerald R. Ford as president. (c) 2003 Wadsworth Group All rights reserved Served as Pres & VP without being elected Pardoned Nixon End of NAM

3 1976 Election Ford and his wife Betty after 1976 Republican nomination Ford and Carter debate

4 Jimmy Carter (c) 2003 Wadsworth Group All rights reserved Gov of GA Christian Peanut farmer incorruptible

5 (c) 2003 Wadsworth Group All rights reserved Presidential Election, 1976

6 OPEC crisis (1970s) Inflation & unemployment amnesty

7 Shah ousted in Iran (1979) US put Shah in power (1953) President Carter toasted the Shah at a state dinner in Tehran, calling him "an island of stability"

8 Iranian Hostage Crisis 66 Americans taken hostage in Tehran, Iran Rescue mission failed (1980) Hostages released

9 Reagan’s landslide win (1980) “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

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11 Cut spending & wasteful programs Tax cuts Stronger defense Reagan, 1981-1989

12 Reagan’s assassination attempt (March 30, 1981)

13 US Abroad Lebanon (1982) 241 Marines killed in suicide bombing US withdraws from Lebanon

14 US Abroad (continue) Grenada (1983) US troops overthrew gov’t Nicaragua (1983-4) funded anti- Sandinista Contras Iran-Contra Affair (1986)

15 Denounced Soviet Union as an “evil empire”

16 Bush elected 1988 “read my lips: no new taxes” Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 Cold War ends (1991)

17 (c) 2003 Wadsworth Group All rights reserved Collapse of the Soviet Bloc

18 1990-91 Gulf War

19 Gulf War 1990-91 Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait (Aug, 1990) US led coalition oust Iraq (1991) Goal achieved coalition returns home

20 (c) 2003 Wadsworth Group All rights reserved Presidential Election, 1992

21 Clinton elected 1992 Job creation Deficit reduction Overhaul of health care & welfare “robust economy”

22 (c) 2003 Wadsworth Group All rights reserved Presidential Election, 1996

23 Impeachment Impeached (1998) Not removed (1999)

24 2000 election

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26 Bin Laden, mastermind of 9-11

27 US takes down Taliban & Al- Qaeda in Afghanistan (2001)

28 US invades Iraq (03/2003)

29 US invasion of Iraq (2003)

30 Iraq: brink of civil war?

31 Rumsfeld resigns (2006)

32 War in Iraq 3,000 US soldiers have died / 20k wounded 50k+ killed in Iraq $87 billion / year

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