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Counterculture
Environmental Movement
Nixon/Watergate
Ford/Carter
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100

This music group from Britain started a rock-and-roll revolution in the early 1960s that grew into something much bigger.

The Beatles

100
Nixon put together this program to look into the level of pollution and protect the ecological chain.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
100

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)

100

President after Nixon

Ford

100

The large predatory bird that was removed from the endangered species list after the ESA protections helped improve its habitat.

Bald Eagle 

200
A style of living where groups of counterculture hippies would form small communities, many time living off the earth and what it provided.
What are communes?
200
This day, that originally started as a day of protest to raise awareness and pressure the government into responding to the movement to fix the problems industrialization had caused, is held on April 22nd, starting in 1970.
What is Earth Day?
200

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 

200

What does Ford do once he becomes President to help Nixon?

Pardons

200
This case, tried by the supreme court, made the controversial decision to legalize abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
This was the name of the three-day music festival of peace & love that is looked at as the culmination of this counterculture.
What is Woodstock?
300
This law was signed by Nixon in 1973 to protext species of plants and animals that faced a declining population.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
300


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"

300

Jimmy Carter grants amnesty to what group of Americans?

Americans who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War

300

What Middle Eastern country does the Soviet Union invade to support the communist government?

Afghanistan

400

The town in California that is credited as the birthplace of the counterculture movement.

What is Haight-Ashbury?

400
This law was signed by Nixon in 1970 to limit the emissions from automobiles and factories to reduce smog and other air pollutants.
What is the Clean Air Act?
400

President Nixon's first Vice President

Spiro Agnew

400

Carter helps negotiate a peace agreement, known as the Camp David Accords, between which two countries?

Egypt and Israel 

400

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

500

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

500

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

500

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. 

500

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. 

500

A second agreement between the United States and Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms production

SALT II