CHAPTER 39: THE STALEMATED SEVENTIES

Sources of Stagnation

Know: Productivity, Inflation

22. Describe the economic problems faced by the United States in the 1970s.

Nixon "Vietnamizes" the War

Know: 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

Know: 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

Know: 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

Know: 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

Know: 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

Know: 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

Know: 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

Know: OPEC

31. Explain the cause and effects of the Arab Oil Embargo.

Watergate and the Unmaking of a President

Know: 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 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

Know: 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

Know: Desegregation, white flight, affirmative action, United States v. Wheeler

37. Explain the significance of the Bakke case.

The Bicentennial Campaign and the Carter Victory

Know: 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

Know: Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Camp David Accords

40. Describe Carter's foreign policy achievements.

Economic and Energy Woes

Know: Shah of Iran

41. How did Carter react to the renewed energy crisis?

Foreign Affairs and the Iranian Imbroglio

Know: Leonid Brezhnev, SALT II, Ayatollah Khomeini, Afghanistan, Hostage Crisis

42. What foreign policy problems plagued the second half of Carter's presidency?