Nixon & the World
What country did Nixon famously repair diplomatic relationships with?
What was the major patriotic highlight of the Nixon administration?
The Moon Landing
Which happened first? Pentagon Papers or Watergate?
Pentagon Papers
Why did Carter win in 1976?
after Nixon's scandals, Americans wanted someone nice
Who famously said, "The state of the Union is not good."
Ford
In 1968 Nixon ran and won on a 2-pronged platform. Name his 2 major objectives.
Law & Order and Peace with Honor
Why was bussing necessary?
Neighborhood segregation created segregated schools in most American cities.
Essentially, what were the Pentagon Papers?
What are the three major ways Carter pursued a "nice" agenda?
Why did the Iranian hostage rescue mission fail?
a sandstorm caused 2 helicopters to collide
Explain "Vietnamization"
to pass "ownership" of the Vietnam war over to the south Vietnamese...a nice way of slowly leaving the Vietnam War
Explain Phyllis Schlafly's central argument against the ERA
women have babies; that work is theirs alone; if we add education and jobs, babies can't be taken away
When the Watergate burglars were caught, what did they have with them that was especially incriminating?
wire-tapping equippment and bills in serial number order
Why did Carter support research into alternative energy? 2 reasons...
1. a desire to move away from a dependence on foreign oil
2. a desire to avoid another war (forcing access to oil would have been risky)
3. clean energy is better for the environment
Why did Iranian students take American diplomats hostage?
Given how the Vietnam war ended, what arguments support the opinoin that Amerian involvement was necessary?
Communism overran South Vietnam, Vietnam is still a communist country, Communist leaders in SE Asia were brutal to their people
Who was the leader of the United Farm Workers and what was their strategy for change?
Cesar Chavez (Dolores Huerta) nonviolent activism-- boycotts, protests, etc
Nixon was accused of abuse of power and obstruction of justice. What did he do to warrant those charges? Be specific to each.
1. Nixon refused to hand them over, citing executive priviledge
2. When he did, they were missing large sections of recordings
What was wrong with the "malaise speech?"
empty rhetoric that failed to offer solutions to real problems and put the impetus for change on citizens rather than leaders
Why were oil prices so high and access so low?
OPEC issued an oil embargo b/c we supported Israel in the middle east
What event marked the end of US invovlement in Vietnam?
Evacuation of Saigon
How did young Native American activists come to settle on Alcatraz island?
a 19th century land treaty that granted natives use of surplus federal land
What political argument did Nixon use in refusing to hand over the oval office tapes?
executive privilege
Why did Americans hate Jimmy Carter?
they were suffering from stagflation and oil restrictions and he wasn't taking real action to help them
Describe Jimmy Carter's foreign policy
a focus on non-military measures to sanction human rights violations