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What was Nixon’s name for his supporters?

What was Nixon’s name for his supporters?. the silent majority. What two powerful nations did Nixon visit to play against each other in the early 1970s?. China and the USSR. What were the two main planks of Nixon’s platform in 1968?. law & order and an honorable peace in Vietnam.

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What was Nixon’s name for his supporters?

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  1. What was Nixon’s name for his supporters? • the silent majority

  2. What two powerful nations did Nixon visit to play against each other in the early 1970s? • China and the USSR

  3. What were the two main planks of Nixon’s platform in 1968? • law & order and an honorable peace in Vietnam

  4. Who gets power returned to them under Nixon’s “New Federalism”? • the states

  5. What is détente? • the lessening of tensions between the U.S. & Soviet Union in the 1970s

  6. What product did we sell to the Soviets in an effort to improve relations?” • grain

  7. What treaties between the U.S. & USSR helped reduce the number of ICBMs and other strategic weapons? • SALT I & II

  8. Who kept the story hot in the press during 1972 and increased public pressure on Watergate? • Woodward & Bernstein

  9. What did Deep Throat tell W & B to do to solve the conspiracy? • follow the money

  10. Which Nixon aide turned state’s evidence and turned over a lot of condemning information? • John Dean

  11. Who was the initial special prosecutor on the Watergate Conspiracy? • Archibald Cox

  12. Who was Sam Ervin? • Head of the Senate Committee looking into Watergate

  13. What did Alexander Butterfield reveal to Ervin’s committee in 6/73? • that Nixon taped his conversations

  14. What was the Saturday Night Massacre? How did it make Nixon look? • Nixon fired two people in the justice department before he found one to fire Cox, guilty

  15. Why did Nixon eventually decide to release transcripts of the tapes? How did they make him look? • thought they would clear him, foul mouthed & evil

  16. How did Watergate change the way Americans viewed the Presidency? • lost faith in the office

  17. Who took over for Spiro Agnew as Vice President? Why did Agnew resign? • Gerald Ford, Agnew took bribes when he was governor of Maryland

  18. Which of Ford’s early actions shocked the nation? • pardon of Nixon for Watergate

  19. What is OPEC? How did they start an energy crisis in the U.S. in 1973? • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, embargo on oil (Arab-Israeli War)

  20. What impact did this have on the U.S. economy? • slow down & inflation

  21. What did the “Steel Belt” become? Why? • Rust Belt, plant closings, layoffs, towns shutting down (U.S. economy did not respond well to oil shortages)

  22. What is stagflation? When did it hit the U.S.? • a combination of inflation and a stagnant economy, late-1970s

  23. Identify two of the challenges faced by Gerald Ford in the election of 1976. • economy, pardon, energy crisis, Ronald Reagan

  24. What were two key attributes that helped Jimmy Carter get elected President in 1976? • Open & honest, Washington outsider, humble background

  25. Identify one way in which Carter tried to demonstrate he was a man of the people. • walk down PA Ave., no heat in White House, meet with all kinds of Americans

  26. What was Carter’s biggest foreign policy triumph? • Camp David Accords

  27. Identify an action taken by Carter early in his Presidency that was controversial with many Americans. • Gave amnesty for draft dodgers, turned canal back over to Panama

  28. Why did Iranian students take U.S. embassy personnel hostage? • wanted Shah returned to Iran for trial

  29. What did followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini call the U.S.? Why? • the Great Satan, believed Western influence was corrupting their nation (& Islam)

  30. Identify two ways that Carter responded the the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. • grain embargo, end SALT talks, boycott Olympics

  31. Identify three of the major problems Carter faced in his effort to get re-elected in 1980. • Afghanistan, Iran Hostage Crisis, Bad Economy, Energy Crisis

  32. What president tried to restore prestige to the presidency in light of this? • Ronald Reagan

  33. How did Reagan try to bring about the downfall of the USSR? • huge military buildup

  34. Who was favored by the policy of Reaganomics? • upper class Americans

  35. Where were the toughest economic times of the 1980’s? What drug made this worse? • Inner-cities, crack cocaine

  36. What were three of the major social crises of the 1980’s? • inner-cities, crack cocaine, AIDS

  37. What were the key issues dividing liberals and conservatives in the 1980’s? • gun control, abortion, the death penalty, school prayer, the ERA

  38. What were some of the key characteristics of the U.S.’ economy through the 1980’s? • growing technology sector, corporate raiders/speculation in real estate, junk bonds

  39. What was congress’ position on funding the Contras in 1983? • against it

  40. What was our gov’t hoping for help with from the Iranians in exchange for selling them arms? • freeing our hostages in Lebanon

  41. Who was the scapegoat for the Iran Contra Affair? • Oliver North

  42. What two things combined to help defeat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 election? • Willie Horton (the criminal out on furlough) and the Snoopy Picture

  43. Which one of Bush’s supreme court nominees brought the issue of sexual harassment to the country’s attention? • Clarence Thomas

  44. Who was Manuel Noriega? • the drug dealing dictator of Panama that Bush had to have captured and arrested

  45. What was the Savings and Loan scandal of the late 1980’s? • several U.S. senators were protecting the interests of S&L chiefs who were losing big bucks – gov’t had to bail them out

  46. What was Bush’s biggest foreign policy achievement? Why did some people criticize him for it? • Persian Gulf War, failure to completely remove Saddam Hussein from power

  47. What kinds of issues did Bill Clinton focus his campaign on in the 1992 election? What third party candidate helped him by taking votes from Bush? • Economic (“It’s the economy, Stupid!”), Ross Perot

  48. What were some of the big issues Clinton tried to take on right from the start of his presidency? What was public reaction? • Healthcare Reform and Gays in the Military, issues were controversial

  49. What significant change took place in Congress after the 1994 Midterm Elections? • A “Republican Revolution” based on their “Contract With America” (backlash against Clinton)

  50. Identify two of the scandals Clinton faced during his Presidency? What action did Congress take against him? • Whitewater, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky; Congress Impeached him (found not guilty in 1999)

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