What was Nixon

1
What was Nixons 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 Nixons platform
in 1968?

• law order and an honorable peace in Vietnam

4
Who gets power returned to them under Nixons
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 states 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 Ervins
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 Fords 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 Carters 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
1980s? What drug made this worse?

• Inner-cities, crack cocaine

36
What were three of the major social crises of the
1980s?

• inner-cities, crack cocaine, AIDS

37
What were the key issues dividing liberals and
conservatives in the 1980s?

• 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 1980s?

• 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 govt 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 Bushs supreme court nominees
brought the issue of sexual harassment to the
countrys 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
1980s?

• several U.S. senators were protecting the
  interests of SL chiefs who were losing big bucks
  govt had to bail them out

46
What was Bushs 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 (Its 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)

51
What two issues were hotly debated in CA during
the 1990s (there were ballot props passed on each
of them)?

• Illegal Immigration (187) and Affirmative Action
  (209)

52
What sector drove the booming economy of the late
1990s?

• technology (initial growth of the internet)

53
How did the 2000 Presidential Election finally
end?

• The Supreme Court ordered an end to the Florida
  recounts

54
Prior to 9/11/01, what were some of George W.
Bushs priorities?

• deregulation, education reform, tax cuts for
  upper classes corporations

55
Identify at least two of the major changes, other
than War, that came about following 9/11.

• Patriot Act (limits on civil liberties), TSA,
  Guantanamo Prison

56
What was the primary reason for going to war in
Afghanistan after 9/11?

• It was seen as the breeding ground for Islamic
  extremism and anti-American terrorists

57
Why did we go to war in Iraq in March, 2003?

• Bush Administration was convinced they had a
  stockpile of WMDs they were prepared to use
  against the U.S., grew impatient with UN
  inspectors

58
What were three of the main factors that
contributed to the banking financial crisis of
2008?

• Deregulation of the mortgage industry, banks
  making risky investments in toxic boxes of bad
  mortgages, collapse of housing bubble, companies
  like AIG taking on too much risk

59
How did the government respond to the financial
crisis of 2008?

• After helping one bank (Bear Sterns) get sold,
  they let Lehman Bros fail, then bailed everybody
  else (including AIG) out (total of 1.5T in
  bailouts)

60
What were two key items at the top of President
Obamas agenda when he came to office in 2009?

• Healthcare reform, out of Iraq and Afghanistan,
  get economy going again, education