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NEA
Definition
National Endowment for the Arts
Term
Which President supported the NEA?
Definition
Nixon
Term
Who did Jimmy Carter choose as his running mate in 1976?
Definition
Walter Mondale
Term
in 1976 people were looking for?
Definition
Change, increase in religious rights, compassion on those affected by inflation & job loss
Term
What did the people think Carter would be?
Definition
honest
Term
Background of Carter?
Definition
naval academy, navy officer, Baptist, nuclear engineer, Governor of GA, peanut farmer
Term
What president did a Playboy interview?
Definition
Carter
Term
Jimmy Carter's brother that got famous from public appearances?
Definition
Billy
Term
Carter's first day in office he fulfilled what promise?
Definition
unconditionally pardoned those that evaded the draft for 'Nam
Term
what became the central goal of corporate strategies in 1974-1975?
Definition
holding down wages & benefits
Term
working-class white man in revolt over:
Definition
taxes, joyless work, double standards of politicians, hypocrisy, debasement of the American Dream, class destinations
Term
Black Monday?
Definition
Sept. 19, 1977 shutdown Campbell Works in Youngstown
Term
rustbelt America?
Definition
tons/cities with closed plants whose economies changed for the worst
Term
Carter singed what act in 1977?
Definition
Emergency Natural Gas
Term
in terms of Iran, President Carter ___________
Definition
inherited an impossible situation and made the worst of it
Term
in 1977 Iran's govt was anti?
Definition
Islamic
Term
in 1979 what began in Iran?
Definition
Revolution
Term
Iran Revolution?
Definition
shah flees & Khomeini returns
Term
signed in March 1979?
Definition
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
Term
Egypt-Israel peace treaty brokered by?
Definition
Pres. Carter
Term
Iran hostage crisisin Nov 1979?
Definition
60 ppl taken hostage from US embassy
Term
women & blacks release because?
Definition
already suffered enough oppression from American society
Term
Malaise Speech July 15, 1979?
Definition
Carter calls for faith in country
Term
1980- what rescue mission was aborted?
Definition
"desert one"
Term
hostages released 444 days later as who took office?
Definition
Reagan
Term
early 1970s saw young Americans ________
Definition
disenchanted
Term
how were they disenchanted?
Definition
marriage obsolete, having children not important, no administration for any living American, society is sick
Term
Nixon said drug abuse was _________
Definition
a serious national threat
Term
drug counterculture was also called an ____________
Definition
epidemic
Term
by 1969 France supplied US with 80-90% of ________
Definition
heroin
Term
in 1971 _________ agreed to ban growing opium
Definition
Turkey
Term
Nixon declared what June 1971?
Definition
War on Drugs as Public enemy #1
Term
Nixon created _____ to coordinate drug efforts
Definition
DEA
Term
Ford administration said _____ was "low priority"
Definition
marijuana
Term
Carter campaigned on ________ of marijuana
Definition
decriminalization
Term
by 1979 how many Americans were considered regular drug users?
Definition
26 million
Term
gonzo journalism?
Definition
reporting style where reporter involves him/herself in actual story
reporter becomes central figure in story
came from "new journalism" movement of the 1960s
Term
supporter of gonzo journalism?
Definition
Hunter S. Thompson- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Term
friend, lawyer, civil rights activist with Thompson on trip?
Definition
Raoul Duke
Term
fear & loathing was the search for?
Definition
the American Dream
Term
transcendental meditation?
Definition
allows your mind to settle inward beyond thought to experience the source of thought, the most silent and peaceful level of consciousness
-your innermost self
-Beatles
Term
Tom Wolfe said the 70s were the _____ Decade
Definition
Me
Term
"Plugging in"
Definition
break from conventional society to see personal identity
Term
Eclectic Religious Revival?
Definition
Eastern religions/philosophy
encounter sessions
EST
Yoga
New Age
Term
EST
Definition
Erhard Seminars Training
Term
prior to WWII a public display of one's suffering considered?
Definition
shameful
ignoble
disgusting
Term
distinctive American style in 1970s?
Definition
"let's talk about me"
Term
mainstreaming of Freudian psychoanalysis?
Definition
paranoia
repression
transference
projection
Term
First public figure to show suffering??
Definition
Betty Ford- im a drug addict & alcoholic
Term
Health care benefits began to cover?
Definition
mental health
Term
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer wrote?
Definition
Your Erroneous Zones
Pulling Your Own Strings
Term
Phil Donahue Show?
Definition
new tv genre
confession of intimate, personal details & probles
non-judgmental hearing
studio audience as jury & dispenser of absolution
Term
personal transformation in 70s?
Definition
spiritual awakening
personal transformation
Term
Jewish Americans?
Definition
Zionism
Term
Elderly Americans called?
Definition
"Gray Panthers"
Term
Maggie Kuhn
Definition
liberation from "ageism"
Term
environmentalism
Definition
grew out of alternative institutions & spiritual renewal
emulated Native American tribal culture
Endangered Species Act of 1973
Term
ecosystems
Definition
bringing humans into harmony with other systems
Term
first Earth Day
Definition
4/22/1970
Term
American Christianity was known as
Definition
large, complicated, multifaceted, community
Term
American Christianity shared core beliefs?
Definition
Bible= will of God
apocalypse impending
personal conversion (born again)
Term
American Christianity by 80s seen as _____ rather than integrative
Definition
divisive
Term
New Agers
Definition
left religion of youth
no dogma or doctrine
spirituality=transformation
Term
Non western spiritual traditions
Definition
zen buddhism (japanese)
yoga (india)
I ching (china
Term
supernatural belief systems
Definition
channeling
wicca
crystals
Term
started EST which introduced "transformation"
Definition
Werner Erhard
Term
wrote jonathan livingston seagull
Definition
richard bach
Term
jonathan livingston seagull was about
Definition
finding a higher meaning & purpose for life
bodhisattva (buddhism)
Term
stuart brand wrote
Definition
Whole Earth Catalog
anti-establishment but not anti-technology
technology put the power back into the hands of the people
Term
Altair 8800
Definition
first computer
one of the first uses= "fool on the hill"
Term
co founded microsoft with Bill Gates?
Definition
Paul Allen
Term
Homebrew Computer club in silicon valley?
Definition
Computer hobbyists
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
Term
ray tomlinson
Definition
created email
responsible for "@" sign
Term
1970 video games
Definition
Pong
Space Invaders
Asteroids
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