Chapters 32 1/2 - 33 1/2 The 1970s
American's optimism and trust in government is shattered by the Watergate scandal and the seemingly never-ending Vietnam war. America and the Soviet Union ease tensions during the seventies but Reagan rides a roller-coaster of diplomatic relations during the eighties. The escalated arms race of the eighties is just one of the factors that will lead to the collapse of international communism.
The specific focus of this unit will be on:
A. The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority”
B. Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, and Watergate
C. Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, de-industrialization, and the service economy
Reading Assignments:
Monday-3/31 RA Brinkley pp. 878-886
· Reading Quiz Chapter 31-32.5 Questions and Outline with Terms Due
· Nixon
Tuesday-4/1 RA Online Article on Sports History, Article Review Due Thursday
- Online Articles on Sports History and Review Instructions
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Choose any of the Articles on Women's Sports:
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The Battle of the Sexes, by Gail Collins
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The Impact of Title IX, by Barbara Winslow
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The History of Women's Baseball, by Kerry Candaele
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You can do an additional Article Review for 15 points extra credit if you choose, simply choose any other article from this issue of HistoryNow to review.
Wednesday -4/2 RA Brinkley pp. 886-892
· Watergate
Thursday-4/3 RA Brinkley pp. 892-903; Online Reading on Moral Majority
· Carter drives a Ford
Friday-4/4 RA Friedan’s Feminine Mystique and Questions
· Social Movements and Iran Hostage Crisis
Monday-4/7 RA Brinkley pp. 903-918
- Reading Quiz Chapter 32-33.5 Questions and Outline with Terms Due
Monday- 4/21 Enrichment is Due
Tuesday- 4/22 Class Final
AP Review for 1st Tri Final.pdf
AP Review for 2nd Tri Final.pdf
AP Review for 3rd Tri Final.pdf
Wednesday- 4/23 Class Notebook and Composition books are due
Wednesday 4/23 After School AP Practice Exam from 2:30 to 4:45
Actual Audio from the White House- the "Watergate Tapes"
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Audio_-_Watergate
The Washington Post Investigates.pdf
A Chronology of the Watergate Crisis.pdf
Homework Assignments:
Questions:
- What did the Pentagon Papers reveal about the true nature of the Vietnam War?
- Identify President Nixon's most important foreign policy achievements.
- What major decisions of the Warren Court most outraged conservatives?
- What advantages did Nixon have going into the 1972 election? What were George McGovern's liabilities?
- What role did President Nixon's key advisors play in the Watergate scandal? What steps did the Nixon White House make to cover-up its involvement in the Watergate break-in?
- Why did Vice President Agnew resign? How did his removal and the appointment of Gerald Ford as Vice President actually increase the pressure on Nixon?
- How did his pardon of Richard Nixon affect Gerald Ford's political standing?
- How did President Ford attempt to get the nation's economy back in shape? How did the energy crisis complicate Ford's problems?
- What factors played a significant role in Jimmy Carter's narrow victory in the 1976 presidential election?
- How did Carter manage to help bring about a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel?
- What led to the Iranian hostage crisis? What political affects did it have on the Carter administration?
- How did activists build the "New Right?" What was Ronald Reagan's role in the emergence of the movement?
- Why did Ronald Reagan win such a decisive victory in 1980? What happened in the congressional races?
Terms:
- Henry Kissinger
- Vietnamization
- Kent State Massacre
- Paris Accords (1973)
- Fall of Saigon
- SALT I
- Nixon Doctrine
- 1973 Arab oil embargo
- Bakke v. Board of Regents, Univ. of CA (1978)
- George McGovern
- stagflation
- Watergate informants
- US v. Richard Nixon (1974)
- National Energy Act (1978)
- SALT II
- "Malaise" speech (1979)
- Panama Canal Treaties (1978)
- Camp David Accords
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
- Sun Belt
- "Moral Majority"
- Proposition 13 (CA)
Extra Credit
Directions: For each group there will be 1 or 2 terms that do not belong. Cross out the terms that do not belong, add another term that fits and explain what the others have in common. What is the impact of each of the remaining items on that shared topic?
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· 444 Days · Ayatollah Khomeini · Tehran · Gerald Ford · Shah of Iran · Operation Eagle Claw ____________
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What do they have in common? Impact?
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· Détente · SALT I · OPEC · SALT II · Breshnev · Camp David Accords ____________
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What do they have in common? Impact?
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· "Moral Majority" · Henry Kissinger · Ronald Reagan · Christian Coalition
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What do they have in common? Impact?
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· CREEP [Committee to Re-Elect the President] · G Gordon Liddy · James McCord · "Plumbers" · Saturday Night Live · Carl Bernstein · Bob Woodward
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What do they have in common? Impact?
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· Three Mile Island, PA (1979) · Love Canal, NY · Agent Orange · Silent Spring · DDT · Earth Day
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What do they have in common? Impact?
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· Vietnamization · Kent State · Nixon Doctrine · Peace with honor! · Ho Chi Minh City · Détente
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What do they have in common? Impact?
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