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The Enduring Vision, Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
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Chapter 30: Society, Politics, and World Events from Ford to Reagan, 1974-1989



After reading Chapter 32, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

Sam Walton and discount stores

Three Mile Island

Greenpeace

Me Generation

Roe v. Wade, right-to-live movement, and pro-choice supporters

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Equal Rights Amendment

"glass ceiling"

ACT-UP

Farm Aid

Bakke v U.S.

Immigration Reform and Control Act, 1986

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Indian Self-Determination Act, 1974

Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority; Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition

SALT II

OPEC

Love Canal

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Camp David Israeli-Egyptian Accords

Iranian hostage crisis

political action committees (PACs)

Reaganomics

Secretary of the Interior James Watt and the Sagebrush Revolution

Donald Trump and Ivan Boesky

Sandinistas versus contras

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

nuclear-freeze movement

Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)

Sandra Day O'Connor

Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro

Middle East terrorist attacks and Muammar el-Qaddafi

the Iran-contra scandal and Oliver North

Jesse Jackson and the rainbow coalition

Mikhail Gorbachev

Grenada

Ariel Sharon

Democratic Leadership Council


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