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Pregnancy Discrimination Act
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act guaranteed that “women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes.”
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Roe v. Wade
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion fell under the Constitutional right to privacy. The Court mandated federal protection for pregnancy termination during the first trimester and allowed state laws limiting it during the second and third trimesters.
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SALT I Treaty
US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement, a treaty limiting nuclear weapons and antiballistic missile systems.
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SALT II Treaty
President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, which would have limited the number of strategic nuclear missiles in each country. Congress never approved the treaty.
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Saturday Night Massacre
In a series of events dubbed the “Saturday Night Massacre,” President Nixon ordered the firing of the special prosecutor in the Watergate case, Archibald Cox; both the US attorney general and deputy attorney general refused the order and resigned in protest.
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Second assassination attempt on Gerald Ford
In San Francisco, Gerald Ford survived his second assassination attempt in less than a month when Sara Jane Moore fired one shot that missed the president.
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Second Battle of Wounded Knee
Members of the militant American Indian Movement staged an armed occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the site of a massacre of Lakota Indians at the hands of the US Army in 1890. The occupiers were led by Russell Means and Dennis Banks. They declared an independent Sioux nation and held the area for seventy-one days, surrendering after an AIM member was shot and killed by federal authorities.
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Supreme Court upheld court-ordered busing as a tool for the desegregation of public schools.
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Taylor v. Louisiana
In the case of Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court ruled that women could not be systematically excluded from jury duty.
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Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was passed, prohibiting discrimination based on gender in federally assisted educational programs.