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Required Reading
Foner Chapter 26
Assignment
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Identify the major policies of the Nixon administration on social and economic issues.
Explain how Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affected popular trust in the government.
Examine the ways in which the opportunities of most Americans diminished in the 1970s.
Discuss the roots of the rise of conservatism in the 1970s.
Analyze how the Reagan presidency affected Americans both at home and abroad.
Why were social issues associated with the sexual revolution so contested by all sides?
What were continueing challenges to the cohesivness of the Democratic (New Deal) coalition? What were the consequences of those divisions of those divisions?
What were the main features of Nixon's policy of "realism" in dealing with China and the Soviet Union?
Describe the basic events and the larger significance of the Watergate scandal.
What were the major causes for the decline of the U.S. economy in the 1970s?
What were the causes and consequences of the public's disillusionment with the federal government in the 1970s and 1980s?
Identify the groups and their agendas that combined to create the new conservative base in the 1970s and 1980s?
What impact did Ronald Raegan have on the American political scene.
Why was there growth in economic inequality in the 1980s?
How did various groups see the relationship between women's rights and freedom differently?