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Chapter 30: Conservative Resurgence, Economic Woes, Foreign Challenges ‘74-89
(I thought we were done reading! )

Personal Pursuits and Diversions:
Yuppies (young urban professionals) were all about fitness/consumerism: labeled the “Me Generation” for selfishness
Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, disco, Disney World, Super Bowl, cable TV, punk rock (SEX PISTOLS!)
Stuff like Springsteen’s “Darkness at the Edge of Town”, movies Nashville and Chinatown showed problems/corruption

Changing Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior:
More women worked, still less wages and gender-segregated occupations like nursing and teaching: “glass ceiling”
Freer sex, smaller birthrate, older marriage ages. However, AIDS scared many of unprotected sex

The Persistence …show more content…
Reserve raised rates, creating a recession

The Outsider as Insider- President Jimmy Carter, 1977-81:
Carter, Democrat peanut farmer won, supported by blacks, the poor; walk during inauguration day, FDR-like fireside chats
Alaska Lands Act gave 100 mil. acres for parks; relocated and cleaned up Love Canal, NY after chem. contamination
Wanted national health insurance, reform of income taxes, protection of human rights. But he just didn’t do much
Gave canal land back to Panama; full diplomacy with China’s new leader, Deng Xioping; SALT 2 limit nuclear weapons

The Middle East- Peace Accords and Hostages:
Camp David Accords- el-Sadat (Egypt) and Begin (Israel) met to give autonomy to Palestinians, create
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