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
