The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

810 revolution (and to become, like Ford, immensely rich). He was twenty years old. Gates recognized Altair’s fatal flaw: It did ...

811 Allen and Gates were euphoric, but not for long: They had not even begun to write a program for the Altair. The challenge of ...

812 Chapter 30 Running on Empty, 1975–1991 Anastasio Somoza. Because the victorious Sandinista government was supported by both ...

The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe 813 convoys, mined roads, and engaged in various acts of terrorism. Soviet casualtie ...

In 1987, President Reagan went to Berlin and addressed the leader of the Soviet Union: “Mr. Gorbachev,” he said, “Tear down this ...

IRELAND ATLANTIC OCEAN North Sea Baltic Sea Black Sea PolandSolidarity Party sweeps elections, 1989. Lithuaniadeclares independe ...

Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Strait of Hormuz Black Sea Gulf of Aden Red Sea Per sian Gulf Ca sp ian Se a Persian Gulf Euphrat ...

Deficits 817 income tax rate from 28 percent to 31 percent and levying higher taxes on gasoline, liquor, expensive automobiles, ...

818 Chapter 30 Running on Empty, 1975–1991 1973 Israel, aided by United States, defeats Egypt and Syria 1973– Arabs impose oil e ...

Chapter Review 819 Review Questions 1.The introduction to this chapter suggests that cheap oil (and gas) has long been prominent ...

Why do you go to college? 820 Every year since 1966, the UCLA School of Education has surveyed nearly a quarter of a million fir ...

From Boomers to MillennialsFrom Boomers to Millennials 31 CONTENTS ■To Millennials, the good life was commonly depicted in mater ...

822 Chapter 31 From Boomers to Millennials The New Immigration A Pew poll in 2008 unearthed another major attitudi- nal differen ...

The New Immigration 823 every county and city has its particular immigration narrative. Indeed, as countless population streams ...

824 on the way. In 1962, after graduating from Hawaii, he went to Harvard to pursue a graduate degree, leaving Ann and their son ...

825 perhaps he sensed that he would have to create a meaning- ful life through achievement of his own. Whatever the reason, he d ...

826 Chapter 31 From Boomers to Millennials undermined his efforts to organize Chicano farm- workers. In 1973 the UFW provided ma ...

women, two-thirds of them married. By 1970 per- haps 20 million women—after returning home from work, fixing dinner, putting the ...

828 Chapter 31 From Boomers to Millennials conservatives and the Roman Catholic Church. The state assembly repealed its antiabor ...

Conservative Counterattack 829 lawyer encouraged her to challenge the law. She con- sented, using the pseudonym “Jane Roe,” and ...