HS 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Blue-Collar Worker, Earth Day, Six-Day War
Document Summary
Indian activists (aim): reject assimilation, poverty and remains red power . Nixon requires contracts: specific goals for women/minorities. Women: seek equal rights, use law and the courts to lobby for civil rights. Roe vs. wade- challenge view of rape and the right to end pregnancy. More women attend professional schools and studies. Conservatives oppose feminism and advocate for patriarchal families. Vietnamization: loss of sv forces increase bombings. North vietnam/vc defeat south vietnam in 1975. Nixon doctrine: rely on allies to expand trade with the ussr. Limit number of icbm both need to limit spending. Six day war- israel conflicts with palestine. Arabs embargo oil because they see us as pro-isr. Congress orders nixon to turn tapes over- he knew about the break in. Gerald ford: after nam and watergate: over-rides vetoes. Couldn"t fix economy- create energy/education protect the environment and labor. High unemployment with high inflation, productivity declines. Foreign trade in europe and japan and trade deficits.
