PPT-Watergate Scandal Lesson Outline

Pass out to students the document titled Watergate Background along with the student worksheet Have students read the document and answer the 5 questions 20 minutes Go through the first nine slides on the . The 1970s. Miss Wootten. History through Film. SWBAT explain the aforementioned items. . Near the end of Vietnam…. We will start our look at the 1970s with the reminder that, yes, the Vietnam War is still going on.. L/O – To identify the reasons for Watergate and to explain what happened. Nixon meets Chinese Premier Zhou . Enlai. – February 1972 . Nixon meets Chairman Mao – February 1972 . Nixon meets Leonid Brezhnev in USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party which leads to SALT 1 and ‘peaceful coexistence’ – May 1972. Presidential Style. “Imperial” Presidency. Expanding Presidential Powers. Ex. war, government spending, executive responsibilities. Impounds. Tight hold on information. Closed circle. John Mitchell. : . a way of being IN our WORLD & time. . . ANTHONY . bARTLETT. For Girard “. scandal” is the gospel word for mimetic crisis. . Mimesis makes scandal not a moral thing but a structural relational thing. . The Election of 1968. Richard Nixon only narrowly won the 1968 election, but the combined total of popular votes for Nixon and Wallace indicated a shift to the right in American politics. . The 1960's began as an era of optimism and possibility and ended in disunity and distrust. . 1968 - 1974. Nixon and . the ’70s. The Election of 1968. The 1968 presidential election marked a shift to the right in American politics. . Country is in . Stagflation - . High inflation and unemployment. Subtitle. Nixon (1968-74) . Nixon wins the 1968 presidential election due to a rise of conservatism. Runs on the platform that he will get the U.S. out of the highly unpopular Vietnam War and “return us to law and order”. 1969 - 1974. Nixon and . the ’70s. The Election of 1968. The 1968 presidential election marked a shift to the right in American politics. . . Country is in . Stagflation. High inflation and unemployment. in government ever . fully be prevented?. Warren G. Harding . was elected president in 1920. Rather than struggle to master the complexities of the job, Harding trusted others to make decisions. Many were his close friends, men he enjoyed relaxing and gambling with at late-night poker games. Nixon meets Chinese Premier Zhou . Enlai. – February 1972 . Nixon meets Chairman Mao – February 1972 . Nixon meets Leonid Brezhnev in USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party which leads to SALT 1 and ‘peaceful coexistence’ – May 1972. Since the Great Depression, the Executive Branch of the U.S. government had continued to grow more and more powerful throughout the years. . Historians . refer to Nixon as the . “Imperial President” . U.S. replaced France as the supporter of South Vietnamese. CIA installed Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam . Ho Chi Minh (North- Communist). Catholic Diem alienated mostly Buddhist nation. Viet Cong guerrillas began launching attacks in 1957 . The Roots of Watergate . Mounting a Re-election Fight . The president finishes triumphant trips to China and Soviet Union.. Alabama governor George Wallace, mounted a strong third-party campaign in 1968, he dropped his bid for another run at the White House after an assassin's bullet paralyzed him.. and how two journalists . brought down a . presidency. History. In June of 1972, five men were arrested in a burglary at the Watergate Apartments in Washington, D.C.. June 17, 1972. During the early morning hours, a security guard notices that an office is being burglarized in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C..