chapter 31 power and politics since 1974 © 2003 wadsworth group all rights reserved
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Chapter 31
Power and Politics Since 1974
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Gerald R. Ford as president.
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• Served as Pres & VP without being elected
• Pardoned Nixon• End of NAM
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1976 Election
• Ford and his wife Betty after 1976 Republican nomination
• Ford and Carter debate
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Jimmy Carter
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• Gov of GA• Christian• Peanut farmer• incorruptible
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Presidential Election, 1976
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• OPEC crisis (1970s)• Inflation &
unemployment• amnesty
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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"
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
• 66 Americans taken hostage in Tehran, Iran
• Rescue mission failed (1980)
• Hostages released
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Reagan’s landslide win (1980)
“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
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• Cut spending & wasteful programs
• Tax cuts• Stronger defense
Reagan, 1981-1989
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Reagan’s assassination attempt (March 30, 1981)
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US Abroad
Lebanon (1982)• 241 Marines killed in
suicide bombing• US withdraws from
Lebanon
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US Abroad (continue)
Grenada (1983)• US troops overthrew
gov’t
Nicaragua (1983-4)• funded anti-
Sandinista Contras• Iran-Contra Affair
(1986)
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Bush elected 1988
• “read my lips: no new taxes”
• Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989
• Cold War ends (1991)
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Collapse of the Soviet Bloc
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1990-91 Gulf War
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Gulf War 1990-91
• Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait (Aug, 1990)
• US led coalition oust Iraq (1991) • Goal achieved coalition returns
home
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Presidential Election, 1992
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Clinton elected 1992
• Job creation• Deficit reduction• Overhaul of health
care & welfare• “robust economy”
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Presidential Election, 1996
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Impeachment• Impeached (1998)• Not removed (1999)
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2000 election
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Bin Laden, mastermind of 9-11
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US takes down Taliban & Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan (2001)
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US invades Iraq (03/2003)
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US invasion of Iraq (2003)
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Iraq: brink of civil war?
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War in Iraq
• 3,000 US soldiers have died / 20k wounded
• 50k+ killed in Iraq
• $87 billion / year