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Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980

The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980

Explain how pollution disasters built an environmental movement and new federal laws, and how Middle East oil crises pushed Washington to try a national energy policy.

Topic 8.13 · 15 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01From conservation to environmentalism
  2. 021969 to 1972: disaster, protest and a wave of laws
  3. 03Oil, the Middle East and the search for an energy policy
  4. 04Late-decade disasters and the limits of the consensus
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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