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“New Frontier” Improve economy Assist poor Speed space program

Investigated steel price fixingLarge tax cut (stalled in Congress)

Berlin CrisisBay of PigsCuban Missile CrisisAlliance for ProgressPeace CorpsVietnam

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 presidencyBay of PigsFailure of Alliance for ProgressSupport of DiemWorsening 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 economyWar 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 ChinaDétenteArms limitation talksVietnam

“Vietnamization” Cambodia

Environmental Protection AgencyReshaped the Supreme CourtSALT IParis agreement to end America’s

involvement in VietnamDétenteOpening China

Didn’t address existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons

Hindered civil rights movementWatergateEconomic woes grewPentagon PapersSecret invasion of Cambodia“Credibility gap”

Increased unemployment benefitsTax cut

Mayaguez incident Improved relations with JapanHelsinki AccordsContinued arms limitation talks Improved relations with AfricaVietnam

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 failedLost battles with CongressFailed to persuade Congress or the

American people to save South Vietnam

Cut federal spending/social programsDeregulationEnergy conservation

Pardoned Vietnam “draft dodgers”Negotiated peace between Egypt &

IsraelSupported Soviet dissidentsArms limitation talksTook measures against Soviet

invasion of AfghanistanAllowed Shah of Iran to come to U.S.

Camp David AccordsSALT IINumber of women and minority

appointees

Distanced his own party Increased economic woes Lost support of oil- & gas- producing

statesDeterioration of détente Iran hostage crisis

Supply-side economicsCutting taxesDeregulationChallenged labor unionsReducing federal government &

social programs

Defense buildupStrategic Defense InitiativeMilitary intervention in the Middle

EastAid to Latin Americans resisting

communism

INF Treaty Improved Cold War relationsEconomic recovery

Increased federal deficitEconomic recovery unevenS & L Scandal Iran-Contra affair