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Chapter 32: The Age of Limits |
1962 Silent Spring published: Rachel Carson’s warnings about pesticides and the environment
1965 Unsafe at Any Speed published: Ralph Nader’s indictment of General Motors’ Corvair
1966 NOW: women’s rights organization established
1969 Apollo 11: first humans land on the moon
1970 Environmental Protection Agency created
1972 Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress
1973 Watergate burglars convicted: links to the White House become more evident
Roe v. Wade: liberalizes restrictions on abortion
Ervin Committee hearings: expose Watergate abuses
Saturday Night Massacre: firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox creates impeachment crisis
War Powers Act: Congress seeks to curb presidential power
Yom Kippur War: Egyptian attack surprises Israel
OPEC oil boycott: triggers U.S. recession
Salvador Allende overthrown in Chile: CIA helps topple democratic government
1974 President Nixon resigns
Church Committee: exposes CIA and FBI abuses
1975 Thieu government: falls in South Vietnam
Helsinki Summit: as part of détente, U.S. recognizes Soviet position in Eastern Europe
1976 Jimmy Carter elected president
1977 Panama Canal treaties signed
1978 Camp David meetings: Egypt-Israeli accords
1979 Three Mile Island: nuclear reactor crisis
U. S. recognizes Peoples’ Republic of China
SALT II agreement: accepts Soviet-American nuclear parity
Iran hostage crisis: militants hold American diplomats
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1980 Sanctions against the Soviet Union: over Afghan invasion
1982 Equal Rights Amendment fails
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