Monday- Continue decade presentations.
Tuesday- Our group presented
Wednesday- Start 1970's presentation
Thursday- Continue presentations
Friday- Continued presentations
1970's
Presidential Elections
Election of 1972
- Richard Nixon vs. George McGovern
- Nixon
- Republican
- Winner
- Promised peace and honor in Vietnam
- Presidency was taken over by Gerald Ford
- McGovern
- Democrat
Election of 1976
- Jimmy Carter vs. Gerald Ford
- Carter
- Democrat
- Winner
- Created the Department of energy and the Department of Education
- Ford
- Republican
Major Events
Salt 2 Treaty
- Gave limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons
3 Mile Island Nuclear Accident
- Partial nuclear meltdown of reactor 2
26th Amendment
- Gave U.S. Citizens who were of age 18 and up the right to vote
Clean Air Act
- A federal law to make sure that all Americans have air that is safe to breath
55 mph law
- President Nixon signed the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act making highway speed limit 55
Government Scandals
Watergate Scandal
- Major political and government scandal following a national break in the Democratic National Committee headquarters
- Watergate- Hotel Office complex in D.C.
- People broke into the Watergate business complex and tapped into their phones
- People were caught and traced back to Richard Nixon
- Nixon tried to cover things up - ended up resigning
1990's
Major events
Gulf War
- A military response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait
- US sent troops to Saudi Arabia
- 3 months later the war was over
- We've had troops stationed in the middle east ever since
Tonya Harding Scandal
- Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan took a break during training at the '94 winter olympics
- The previous month, Kerrigan's knee was smashed with an iron bar by a "hitman" hired by Harding's then-husband and bodyguard
Genocide in Rwanda
- During approx. 100 days in 1994, nearly 800,000 Tutsi Rwandans were killed by the Hutu
- Many people shamed the United States for saying we could have done more to help this cause
OJ Simpson Trial
- O.J. Simpson was tried guilty of the charges of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman
- He was ordered to pay $33 million in punitive damages
- Simpson is currently serving a prison sentence for armed robbery
Oklahoma City bombings
- Timothy McVeigh was convisted of bombing the Oklahoma City Federal Building
- Timothy was a U.S. veteran of the first Gulf War
The Unabomber
- Later named as Theodore Kaczynski
- He was arrested in a Montana Cabin after the FBI agents received a tip from his brother
World Trade Center Bombing
- A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center
- Six people were killed
Columbine Shooting
- Two teens went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado
- They killed 13 people and wounded more than 20 others before killing themselves
Presidential Elections
Government Scandals
Monica Lewinsky
- President Bill Clinton was accused of fostering an affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky
- He denied it
- But later he admitted to having the affair
Marion Barry
- Mayor of Washington D.C.
- He was arrested for the possession of cocaine while in office
- He remained governor during the trials
- After his trial he ran for mayor and won
Whitewater
- The Clintons and their associates built homes and aimed them at seasoned citizens
- They cheated the seniors out of their down payments
- If buyers missed one mortgage payment, they repossessed it and resold it
- The Clintons continuously flipped these properties because they sold them to buyers whom they suspected wouldn't be able to afford it
1980's
Pesidential Elections
1980
- Ronald Reagan vs. Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan Won
1984
- Ronald Reagan vs. Walter Mondale
- Ronald Reagan won again
1988
- George Bush vs. Michael Dukakis
- George Bush won
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