CHAPTER 39: READING GUIDE-THE STALEMATED SEVENTIES
Sources of Stagnation
Define/ Explain: Productivity, Inflation
22.
Describe the economic problems faced by the United States in the 1970s.
Nixon "Vietnamizes" the War
Define/Explain: Liberal Establishment, Vietnamization, Silent Majority, Nattering Nabobs of Negativism,
My Lai
23.
What was President Nixon’s plan for getting the US out of Vietnam?
Cambodianizing the Vietnam War
Define/Explain: Cambodia, Kent State University, Twenty-sixth Amendment, Pentagon Papers, Daniel
Ellsberg
24.
What developments caused many people to become even more critical of the war in 1970 and
1971?
Nixon's Detente with Beijing (Peking) and Moscow
Define/Explain: Henry Kissinger, Détente, ABM Treaty, SALT Treaty, MIRVs
25.
What was the “China Card,” and how did Nixon use it?
A New Team on the Supreme Bench
Define/Explain: Judicial Activism, Miranda, Engel v. Vitale, Warren Berger, Roe v. Wade
26.
Why was Nixon unhappy with the Supreme Court?
Nixon on the Home Front
Define/Explain: Aid the Families with Dependent Children, Reverse Discrimination, Environmental
Protection Agency, Occupational Health and Safety Administration, Silent Spring, Clean Air Act,
Endangered Species Act, Southern Strategy
27.
How conservative was President Nixon? Explain.
The Nixon Landslide of 1972
Define/Explain: George McGovern
28.
How did the situation in Vietnam help Nixon win a landslide in the 1972 election?
The Secret Bombing of Cambodia and the War Powers Act
Define/Explain: Pol Pot, War Powers Act
29.
What did Cambodia have to do with the War Powers Act?
Bombing North Vietnam to the Peace Table
30.
"The shaky `peace' was in reality little more than a thinly disguised American retreat." Explain.
The Arab Oil Embargo and the Energy Crisis
Define/Explain:
31.
OPEC
Explain the cause and effects of the Arab Oil Embargo.
Watergate and the Unmaking of a President
Define/Explain: Watergate, CREEP, Enemies List, Plumbers, John Dean, Executive Privilege, Spiro
Agnew, Gerald Ford, Saturday Night Massacre
32.
Of what wrongdoing was the Nixon administration guilty?
The First Unelected President
33.
Did President Ford do the right thing when he pardoned Nixon? Explain.
Defeat in Vietnam
34.
What was the cost (not in just money) of the Vietnam War?
Feminist Victories and Defeats
Define/Explain: Title IX, ERA, Roe v. Wade
35.
Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail?
Makers of America: The Vietnamese
36.
What difficulties did Vietnamese immigrants experience when they came to America?
The Seventies in Black and White
Define/Explain: Desegregation, white flight, affirmative action, United States v. Wheeler
37.
Explain the significance of the Bakke case.
The Bicentennial Campaign and the Carter Victory
Define/Explain: Jimmy Carter
38.
Why did Jimmy Carter win the presidency in 1976?
Makers of America: The Feminists
39.
Compare and contrast the first and second feminist waves.
Carter's Humanitarian Diplomacy
Define/Explain: Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Camp David Accords
40.
Describe Carter's foreign policy achievements.
Economic and Energy Woes
Define/Explain: Shah of Iran
41.
How did Carter react to the renewed energy crisis?
Foreign Affairs and the Iranian Imbroglio
Define/Explain: Leonid Brezhnev, SALT II, Ayatollah Khomeini, Afghanistan, Hostage Crisis
42.
What foreign policy problems plagued the second half of Carter's presidency?