Starting Over

In the beginning of the mid-1970's, there was many lost of confidence in America as a great nation because the U.S. just lost it's first war in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal involving Nixon brought distrust to many Americans, and also the economy was just starting take a downfall from inflation and growing unemployment. During this time, people obliviously were looking for new hope to make America a great nation again, taking away the current problem. After President Nixon resigned and after his vice president took position as president, Jimmy Carter is one running for president. Eventually, he does win the election because people saw him as an everyday American and he made them feel hopeful. However, when it came to the votes there was a major drop in younger voters participating to vote. Some of the ones that supported the movements in the 1960's that failed to make change just started to get involved in dancing, mostly dancing disco in the 1970's. There was also a huge change in the automotive industry all over the U.S.. There were American cars that had 8 to 10 miles to the gallon, where the Japanese cars had much better fuel-efficient automobiles. A terrible incident that happened in the U.S., even after the environmental movement, was the Love Canal. The Love Canal was the discovery of chemical waste being dumped into public rivers, specifically in this one area, where children got infected by multiply diseases. There was even the murder of two homosexuals in the gay rights movement, which caused other gay people to pay respects. On very important event that occurred was the Iran Crisis, which has ruined Carter's reputation as president. Now due to the Iran Crisis, the U.S. lost trades from OPEC. Carter gave a speech called the "malaise speech", which did also did make him look worse and worse as president. In his speech, he basically blamed the American people for some of the things. From all these failures to support, it got one new guy to gain great popularity and power in the 1980's....Ronald Reagan.