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Election of 1968
Nixon
Policies/Plans
Miscellaneous
100
The dismantling a number of federal programs and giving more control to state and local agencies. This gave the closest government more opportunity to address the issues of the public.
What is New Federalism?
100
This election was between Richard Nixon (Rep.), and Hubert Humphrey (Dem.).
What is the Election of 1968?
100
The anti-war protester.
What is Nixon's specific target as a Law and Order President?
100
This policy provided aid to families with dependent children. It was structured in a way that low income families were happier to apply for benefits instead of taking a lower paying job.
What is The Family Assistance Plan?
100
Diversity, no government regulation of social behavior, free speech, right to privacy, the government should be active in helping disadvantaged Americans, etc.
What are Liberal values?
200
The sharing of federal funds with local and state agencies. The goal was to give state and local agencies more power, but the result was increased power in the federal government.
What is revenue sharing?
200
In order to gain Southern votes, Nixon employed this strategy: promise Strom Thurmond to appoint only conservatives to federal courts, name a southerner to the Supreme Court, oppose court0ordered busing, and choose a Vice President acceptable to the South.
What is The Southern Strategy?
200
A political scandal that occurred as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
200
The first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the United States and the U.S.S.R.
What is S.A.L.T.?
200
Strict interpretation of the constitution, limited government power to intrude in people's lives, traditional American values, religious faith is essential to society, etc.
What are conservative values?
300
To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
What does impeach mean?
300
The Republican candidate, Richard Nixon.
Who won the Election of 1968?
300
Nixon was very paranoid, thinking everyone was out to get him and ruin his career.
How did Nixon's personality influence the Watergate scandal?
300
Peace accords with Finland under Ford's presidency
What is the 1975 Helsinki Accords?
300
Religious conservative voting block that felt the U.S. should remember its traditional values.
What is the Religious Right?
400
A government ban on trade with another country.
What is an embargo?
400
Nixon's target during the campaign: Middle America.
What is the "silent majority"?
400
The giving up one's office or position
What is a resignation?
400
A proposition that lowered property taxes in 1978 passed by Moward Garvis.
What is Proposition 13?
400
The southern and southwestern region of the U.S.
What is the Sunbelt?
500
Persistant inflation combined with stagnant consumer demand and relatively high unemployment
What is stagflation?
500
Peace with honor in Vietnam, law and order, a streamlined government and a return to more traditional values at home.
What are the main values Nixon promised during the campaign?
500
Détente.
What policy did Nixon employ with China?
500
A step for peace between Israel and Egypt signed officially in 1979 (brokered by Carter).
What are the Camp David Accords?
500
A diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981), after a group of Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
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