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Passed in 1978
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National Energy Act
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Created in 1977
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Department of Energy
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In March 1979 at nuclear reactor failed almost causing a catastrophic meltdown in Pennsylvania.
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Three Mile Island Accident
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To curb in flation P. Carter..
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Called for voluntary wage and price controls, along with cuts in federal spending.
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Most evident in human rights.
Supported the universal right to freedom from torture and unlawful detention. |
Carter's approach to foreign affairs.
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Pushed by Carter to grant Panama control by 2000.
Criticized by Reagan. Ratified in 1978. |
Panama Canal Treaties
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White minority ruled and the black majority had few rights
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Apartheid
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Soviets station troops in Afghanistan in striking distance of major oil routes.
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December 1970
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Carter cuts of all grain sales to Soviet Union and boycotts 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow.
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Results to December 1970
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Egyptain President who signed the Camp David Accord
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Anwar Sadat
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Israeli Prime Minister whop signed the Camp David Accords.
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Menachem Begin
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Agreement to peace in the middle-east.
Signed in September 1978 |
Camp David Accords
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Required states and communities with a large number of non-English-speaking residents to print voting materials in various foreign languages.
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Voting Rights Act of 1975
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Increased funding for public schools to provide instructions to students in their primary languages while they learned English.
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Bilingual Education Act of 1974
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Primarily Texas, Florida, and California. Attracted millions b/c of greater job oppurtunities, warmer climate, suburban lifestyle, improved technology(A.C)
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Sunbelt States
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Became more common b/c it was more common to obtain in most states. 5.2 per every 1,000 Americans in 1980.
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Divorce Rate
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Written by Tom Wolfe; characterizing that Americans had become selfish and self-absorbed.
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"Me Decade"
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Wrote "The Complete book of running" and sold 620,000
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Jim Fixx
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Spielberg's 1st major motion picture. Had little success in the box office
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Sugarland Express
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Spielberg won an amateur contest as a teenager for...
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Escape to Nowhere
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Apollo 11 land on the moon
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July 20, 1969
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1st men to land on the moon
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
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First U.S. space station and placed in orbit in 1973. Three space teams visited in one year. 1st to use smoke detectors.
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Skylab
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College dropouts who invented the PC(personal computer).
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Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak
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