Counterculture
This music group from Britain started a rock-and-roll revolution in the early 1960s that grew into something much bigger.
The Beatles
True or False: President Nixon was impeached by the House, but acquitted by the Senate.
FALSE: NIXON RESIGNS
(if you guys get this one wrong on the test tomorrow i will "crash out" as the kids say)
President after Nixon
Ford
The large predatory bird that was removed from the endangered species list after the ESA protections helped improve its habitat.
Bald Eagle
President Nixon's plan to make the Republican Party a powerful force in the South by attracting the votes of blue-collar workers and southern whites
Southern strategy
What does Ford do once he becomes President to help Nixon?
Pardons
U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon's famous 4-word "quote" when speaking about the release of the Watergate tapes
"I'm not a crook"
Jimmy Carter grants amnesty to what group of Americans?
Americans who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War
What Middle Eastern country does the Soviet Union invade to support the communist government?
Afghanistan
The town in California that is credited as the birthplace of the counterculture movement.
What is Haight-Ashbury?
President Nixon's first Vice President
Spiro Agnew
Carter helps negotiate a peace agreement, known as the Camp David Accords, between which two countries?
Egypt and Israel
a document that put the nations of Europe on record in favor of human rights, endorsed by the U.S. and Soviet Union in a 1975 meeting
Helsinki Accords
This activist is credited with starting the Chicano Movement by bringing attention to the struggles of migrant farmworkers and starting labor unions while organizing boycotts...he helped lead the grape boycott in Delano, California.
Cesar Chavez
The name of Rachel Carson's book that brought attention to the ill effects of industrial pollution causing awareness thus sparking the movement.
Silent Spring
Explain how Nixon "gets caught" in the Watergate scandal
Two Washington Post reporters work with an FBI informant to reveal that Nixon was secretly taping conversations (rookie level mistake) in the Oval Office.
He had conservations in the Oval Office with other people proving he had involvement (D1 yapper) with the break-in of the Democratic party's Watergate hotel.
Nixon refuses to hand over the tapes. He cites executive privilege (the principle that the President has the right to keep certain information confidential).
The Supreme Court rules that the President does not have executive privilege in immunity from subpoenas or other civil court actions and Nixon must turn the tapes over.
Nixon turns over the tapes. The United States House of Reps. votes to impeach Nixon. Nixon resigns before they can begin the impeachment process.
In 1979, armed Iranian college students who supported the Iranian Revolution took over the US Embassy and held 52 Americans hostage. How many days were the Americans held hostage?
444 days.
Under Khomeini’s direction, 13 of the hostages—five women and eight Black men—were released after 17 days.
6 American diplomats initially evaded capture by hiding with their Canadian colleagues. They were smuggled out of Iran on Day 91.
Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue the hostages, left 8 members of the elite military task force dead. The wreckage, including visuals of charred body parts, was broadcast to the world by the Iranian government.
A second agreement between the United States and Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms production
SALT II