Homework 36 - Chapter 32: An Age of Limits
Read pages 998-1033. Answer the questions.
Section 1: The Nixon Administration
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What did Kissenger think about his relationship with Nixon?
What direction did Nixon wish to turn the nation towards?
What is New Federalism?
How was New Federalism a threat to the Great Society programs?
What is revenue sharing?
Why did Nixon want to put so much power into state and local government?
What is the Family Assistance Plan?
How would this change welfare programs?
How did Nixon get the Democrats to support New Federalilsm?
What is impoundment?
Why did Nixon use this method?
What did the courts say about impoundment/
What did Nixon mean when he said he wanted to bring “law and order” policies to the US?
What government agencies were the tools of “law and order”?
What is Nixon’s southern strategy?
How had political parties changed in the south?
Why?
Why did Nixon decide to slow the progress of racial integration?
What was the controversial case Swann.v.Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education?
Who did Nixon pick to be the next chief justice of the Supreme Court?
What was Nixon hoping to change about the court?
What is stagflation?
In what way is this far worse than inflation?
What is OPEC?
Why did they cut the flow oil to the US?
What actions did Nixon take to fight stagflation?
Did it work?
What are realpolitiks?
What is détente?
Why is this new direction a major break through in the Cold War?
What nation did Nixon visit in Feb. of 1972?
What are the important results of the trip?
What nation did Nixon visit in May of 1972?
What were the important results of this trip?
Why was it brilliant to visit China and Russia back to back?
Section 2: Watergate: Nixon’s Downfall
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What did Barbara Jordan say about impeachment?
What is impeachment?
What scandal rocked the Nixon administration?
What is meant by the phrase “Nixon’s imperial presidency”?
Who were Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell?
What dangerous practices did they assist Nixon with?
What is the Committee to Reelect the President?
What were 5 men caught doing on June 17, 1972?
How did the Nixon White House handle the burglary from the beginning?
What role did the Washington Post, Bob Woodward ,and Carl Bernstein play in Watergate?
How did John Sirica get the burglars to talk and break the silence?
What action did the Senate take when they learned that top Nixon men were involved in
Watergate?
Who was John Dean?
What did he say under Oath to the Senate?
What is the Saturday Night Massacere?
Why were the White House tapes central to the Watergate investigation?
What had happened to those tapes?
What did the Supreme Court rule on Nixon’s White House tapes?
How did Nixon try and get around the Supreme Court?
What did the House of Representatives do on July 27?
What did Nixon do on August 8th?
What are the long term effects of Watergate?
Who became the new president?
Section 3: The Ford and Carter Years
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What action did Ford take with Nixon?
Why did Americans get angry with Ford?
What was Ford hoping to accomplish?
What did Ford mean when he said “I am a Ford not a Lincoln”?
What was WIN?
Did it work?
How did Ford carry on Nixon’s important work in the Cold War and détente?
What happened the US ship Mayaquez?
What actions did Ford take?
What was Jimmy Carter known for before he became president?
What made Carter very appealing to voters?
What answers did Carter have for the energy crisis?
What happened to the economy during the Carter administration?
What had happened to manufacturing jobs in the US?
Why?
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What did the court case Bakke v. California decide?
What are human rights?
Why did Carter champion human rights?
What did Carter do with the US controlled Panama Canal?
Why did Détente collapse?
What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979?
What are the Camp David Accords?
Why is this one of the great peace treaties in world history?
Who was the Ayatollah Khomeini?
What happened to 52 Americans in Tehran?
How long did they stay?
What did Carter try to do about it?
Section 4: Environmental Activism
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Who is Lois Gibbs?
What happened at Love Canal?
Who was Rachel Carson?
What changes did her book inspire?
What is Earth Day?
When was it first celebrated?
What is the EPA?
Why was it created?
How did Carter help protect Alaska?
What happened at 3 Mile Island?
What happened to many other nuclear reactors?
Why is environmentalism and continuing movement?