The student will describe changes in national policies since 1968 A The Nixon Presidency Richard Nixon is credited with opening relations with China He reduced many trade restrictions between the US and China and silenced antiChina voices within the White House ID: 568848
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Standard 25
The student will describe changes in national policies since 1968.Slide2
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The Nixon Presidency
Richard Nixon is credited with opening relations with China.
He reduced many trade restrictions between the U.S. and China, and silenced anti-China voices within the White House.
In February 1972, President and Mrs. Nixon traveled to China.Slide4
Watergate
The term
Watergate
has come to encompass an array of illegal and secret activities undertaken by the Nixon administration.
The activities came to light in the aftermath of five men, known as the Plumbers, being caught breaking into Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972.
The
Washington Post
picked up on the story, while reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward relied on an FBI informant known as "Deep Throat" to link the men to the Nixon White House.
Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974 Slide5
American Attitudes Toward the Government Sour
Because of Watergate, and the ensuing cover-up, America’s view of the government started to sour.
People began to view the government as corrupt and untrustworthy.Slide6
The Ford Presidency
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States.
He took over after Richard Nixon resigned.
Ford pardoned Nixon of all transgressions.
He presided over what were then the worst economic times since the 1930s.
Ford survived two assassination attempts.
He is viewed as a highly ineffective president.Slide7
Richard Nixon was
A president who took a hard-line military stance against the Chinese and enthusiastically supported civil rights legislation.
The first president to publicly recognize communist China and eventually resigned due to a scandal.
The only man ever to serve as both president and vice president without being elected to either office.
A former governor of Georgia who went on to become president and improve relations with communist nations.Slide8
Watergate is remembered as an important event in US history because it
Resulted in only the second presidential impeachment in history.
Nearly destroyed the Reagan presidency.
Forced a US president to resign in disgrace.
Ended the political career of Lyndon Johnson.Slide9
Watergate badly damaged citizens’ confidence in
The Constitution.
The power of Congress.
The executive branch.
The media.Slide10
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Roe v. Wade
The case resulted in a landmark decision regarding abortion.
Most laws against abortion in the United States violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Slide12
University of California v. Bakke
It was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on affirmative action.
It bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action programs giving equal access to minorities. Slide13
A pregnant woman had the right to get an abortion in any state due to
The Equal Rights Amendment.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in
Regents of UC v. Bakke
.
SDI.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in
Roe v. Wade
.Slide14
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The Carter Presidency
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the 39th President of the United States.
The Camp David Accords, one of Carter's most important accomplishments as President, were a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.Slide16
Iranian Issues
The Shah of Iran had been a strong ally of the United States.
The Iranian Revolution broke out in Iran and the Shah was overthrown.
Carter granted the Shah entry and temporary asylum for the duration of his cancer treatment.
In response to the Shah's entry into the U.S., Iranian militants seized the American embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage.
Although the release of the hostages was negotiated and secured under the Carter administration, the hostages were released on January 20, 1981, moments after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President.Slide17
Jimmy Carter was praised for which of the following?
Watergate
His handling of the Iranian Hostage Crisis
The Camp David Accords
Instituting WINSlide18
A good campaign strategy for Jimmy Carter in 1980 would have been to focus on
Camp David Accords.
Iran Hostage Crisis.
State of the economy.
SALT II.Slide19
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The Reagan Presidency
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States.
"Reaganomics“, Reagan’s economic plan, were an example of supply-side economics.
Reagan gave tax cuts to the wealthy in the hopes that they would pass the wealth down.
Also known as “trickle-down economics”.
Reagan aimed to encourage entrepreneurship and limit the growth of social spending, as well as to reduce regulation and inflation.
The national debt increased significantly Slide21
The Iran-Contra Scandal
The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States which came to light in November 1986, during the Reagan administration, over an arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and funding for the Nicaraguan Contras.
Large modifications to the plan were conjured by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North.Slide22
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Reagan directly confronted the Soviet Union through a policy of "peace through strength," including increased military spending.
The Soviet Union attempted to keep pace with US military spending.
This attempt to keep pace led to the collapse of the communist economic system and the fall of the Soviet Union.Slide23
Although he was not in office when the Berlin Wall came down and the USSR dissolved, many citizens give credit for ending the Cold War to
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Jimmy CarterSlide24
Reagan’s economic plan once he took office was nicknamed
“conservative money theory”
“Reaganomics”
“national debt”
“stagflation”Slide25
Which US president viewed the USSR as an “evil empire” that could not be trusted and therefore pursued a massive build up of US military forces?
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George W. BushSlide26
A critic of Ronald Reagan would probably focus on which of the following?
The end of the Cold War.
The state of the US economy from 1983 to 1988.
The Iran-Contra Scandal.
The state of the US military when Reagan left office.