Final Flashcards
Nixon in China
Who: Nixon
What: first US president to visit China
When: 1972
Where: China
Why: led to open relations between the two countries
Detente
Who: Nixon
What: easing of tensions between the US and the USSR
When:1970-1980
Where: Washington DC
Why: led to the two superpowers to ignore each other for a period of about 10 years
Equal rights amendment
Who: Congress
What: amendment to treat men and women equally
When: 1972
Where: Washington DC
Why: while voted down, this amendment would have helped stop women’s discrimination in the workplace
Rowe v. Wade
Who: US Supreme Court
What: legalized abortion in the US
When: 1973
Where: Washington DC
Why: gave women the right to choose
Counterculture
Who: america’s young generation
What: opponents of the viet NOM war
When: mostly 1960s and early 1970s
Why: vocal and visible group which kept the heat on the government by opposing the Vietnam War through marches and protests
Vietnamization
Who: US Pres. Nixon
What: give the Vietnam War back to South Vietnam
When: 1969
Where: Washington DC
Why: would allow the American troops to be pulled out of Vietnam
Kent State
Who: University student
What: protest against the Vietnam War
When: 1970
Where: Kent State University, Ohio
White: the death of four college students after protesting the invasion of Cambodia, which escalated the war
Pentagon papers
Who: Nixon
What: leaked to top-secret government papers
When: 1971
Where: Washington, DC
Why: led to the publication by the New York Times of secret documents related to the Vietnam War
Daniel Ellsberg
Who: Journalist
What: secret Pentagon papers
When: 1971
Where: Washington, DC
Why: expose the truth about the Vietnam War from Pres. Eisenhower to Pres. Nixon
The plumbers
Who: former FBI and CIA agent
What: originally hired to find a leak in Nixon’s presidency
When: 1971 through 1974
Where: Washington, DC
Why: led to the break in the DNC national headquarters and the Watergate scandal
Watergate
Who: US Pres. Nixon
What: presidential scandal which led to Nixon’s resignation
When: 1972 through 1974
Where: Washington, DC
Why: while the HR initiated impeachment hearings about the cover-up, Pres. Nixon resigned. He became the first and only sitting president to resign from office.
Stagflation
Who: US economy
What: increasing inflation plus increasing unemployment
When: 1970s
Where: US
Why: economic crisis in the 1970s during Pres. Gerald Ford term in office
WIN
Who: US Pres. Gerald Ford
What: this plan would exempt from taxes the first 10% of income and hope for more civilian expending which would lead to more jobs
When: 1970
Where: Washington, DC
Why: economic plan to help the US economy
Gerald Ford
Who: 38th president of the US
What: first and only president not to have been elected
When 1974 through 1977
Where: Washington, DC
By: took over as US president of the United States after Nixon’s resignation due to the Watergate scandal. First controversial decision was to pardon former Pres. Nixon of all crimes
Election of 1976
Who: Gerald Ford (R) and Jimmy Carter (D)
What: presidential election
When: 1976
Where: USA
Why: close election one by Jimmy Carter as Gerald Ford had everything against him economy, Nixon, Washington insider image, Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Who: 39th president
What: considered a failure as US president as he lost the faith of the American people with his domestic and foreign policies
When: 1976
Where: Washington, DC
Why: his malaise speech made him lose the trust of the American people. He gave the Panama Canal back to Panama, cannot return iran hostages home. The Davis accords were his only success
Iran hostage crisis
Who: American citizens
What: 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days
When: 1978 through 1979
Where: Iran/Washington DC
Why: proved Pres. Jimmy Carter’s failure to bring the hostages home during his presidency. Hostages were released shortly after Pres. Reagan takes office
Second Harlem Renaissance
Who: African Americans
What: America embraces a new wave of black actors and comedians
When: 1970s
Where: Hollywood
Why: new TV show with blacks lead actors become the most popular shows of the 70s: good times, the Jeffersons, Stanford and son, what’s happening?
Blaxploitation
Who: black movies
What: term first used by Rev. Jesse Jackson in reference to low-budget action movies with black actors and lots of explanations
When: 1970s
Where: Hollywood
Why: revival of Hollywood after a snow time. Some of these movies included shaft.
New women
Who: Gloria’s Steinem and TV shows
What: feminist movement to prove that women could do anything men can do
When: 1970s
Where: Urban us
Why: continue the feminist movement and the idea that women should be treated equal to men
Phyllis Schlafly
Who: antifeminist
What: oppose the ERA
When: 1970s
Where: New York
Why: promoted the belief that the Bible promoted subservience the ER a could open the door to gay rights and it was the women’s choice to remain subservient
All in the family
Who: popular TV show in the
what: conservatism versus liberalism
When: 1970s
Where: Hollywood
Why: television continues to be medium for social
SDI
Who: US Pres. Ronald Reagan
What: strategic defense plan to try and outspend the Soviet Union
When: 1984
Where: Washington, DC
Why: defense plan to protect the United States from attacked by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles
Iran-contra affair
Who: CIA (under supervision of marine Lt. Col. Oliver North)
But: sell of arms to Iran (illegally) to gain freedom for Americans still held hostage in the region. Money from arms sales are shifted to Nicaraguan cantras
When:
1984
Where: Washington, DC
Why: scandal in Pres. Reagan’s administration which ended with Marine Lieut. North taking full responsibility and exonerating the president from any wrong doing
Geraldine Ferrero
Who Democratic Party politics
What: first female vice president nominee
When: 1984
Where: USA
Why: became the first woman to run for vice-president in a presidential election
Persian Gulf war
Who: UN coalition forces led by the US
What: first war against Iraq for the invasion of Kuwait
When: 1991
Where: Persian Gulf
Why: major success for the American military in the middle east which protected American interest in the region
