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title: "SSUSH22: Nixon to Carter Era Policies (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSUSH22
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSUSH22
subject: social_studies
grades:
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# SSUSH22: Nixon to Carter Era Policies

Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSUSH22.a**: Analyze the international policies and actions taken as a response to the Cold War including the opening of and establishment of diplomatic relations with China, the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the War Powers Act, the Camp David Accords, and Carter's response to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis.
- **SSUSH22.b**: Connect major domestic issues to their social effects including the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the emergence of the National Organization for Women, Nixon's resignation due to the Watergate scandal, and his pardon by Ford.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- US History (EOC). Post–World War II to the Present. Post–World War II to the Present (about 24% of the test; 11 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.