TIMELINE OF EVENTS

CHAPTER 27 REVIEW

1970 Invasion of Cambodia
Four students shot and killed at Kent State University
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed
1971 Environmental Protection Agency created
Pentagon Papers published
1972 Watergate break-in
1973 Endangered Species Act passed
War Powers Act passed
U.S. agrees to withdraw from Vietnam
1973–1974 OPEC oil embargo
1974 Nixon resigns
1975 North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
1977 Department of Energy created
1978 Proposition 13 passed in California
1979 Moral Majority founded
Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1981 Reagan pushes Congress to pass the Economic Recovery Tax Act
1982 Ratification period expires for Equal Rights Amendment
1990 Bush signs Americans with Disabilities Act and Clean Air Act