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nixon appealed to republicans because
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  • a moderate (unlike goldwater who lost in 64)
  • staunch anti communist
  • vp so expereinced
  • appealed ‘middle america’ concerns
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who did middle america usually vote for - and why did nixon appeal to them

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democrat
- resented taxes subisidising undeserved poor
- drafted children never from wealthy families - they were always protesting
- wanted less govt and restoration of law and oredr

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why did southern whites like nixon

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  • southern strategy - slow down desegregation
  • supported states right in the distribution of federal funds
  • many social conservatives like him
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who did spiro agnew attack

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  • ghetto rioters
  • radicals
  • liberals
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who was the nominee at the democrat convention party - what was the controversy of this

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Hubert Humphrey
- had not entered a single primary unlike McCarthy who had won many

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national secuirty advisor

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Kissinger

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who made up the ‘berlin wall’

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haldeman - chief of staff-

Ehrlichmen - domestic affairs advisor

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example of Mitchell, his attorney general, disregarding the law

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approved wiretraps without court authorisation

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what were nixons main election promises

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  • peace with honour
  • conservative social policies
  • law and order
  • slowing desergregation
  • reducing expensive policies on poverty (great society)
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what percent of americans believed too many families were getting welfare

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84%

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what meant that johnsons policies remained mainly intact

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  • democrat controlled congress
  • nixons moderation and pragmatism
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what did nixon do to try get welfare recipients to work

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FAP - rejected by congress for being too controversial

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how did nixon reduce social welfare

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  • closed 59 job corps down
  • shrank office of economic opportuinty
  • cut federal funding for housing and youth prorgrammes
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how did nixon go against his aim of restoring conservative social policies

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  • increased federal expenditure on education, private health care and youth programmes
  • social secirty and medicare and medicaid
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did nixon spend more on social policies than johnson

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yes ! :)

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what percent of americans disaporved of busing

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80%

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miliken v bradley

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1974 ruling
halted busing in detroit area

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years of nixons presidency

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1969-74

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how did nixon promote affirmitive action

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  • federal contractors had to employ minority workers
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district of columbia crime control act 1970

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decrease crime in capital

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largest ever anti war protest

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moratorium - 1969

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where were 4 students shot dead in a protest by the national guard

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Kent State University

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3 methods nixon used to decrease protestors

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  • timed troop withdrawals from vietnam to forestall popular protest
  • adjusted then removed the draft
  • took protestors to court
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how many protestors were taken to court in Washington in 1970

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100,000

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what was endangering americas trade

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japanese and german products, often cheaper and often better

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new economic policy (NEP) introduced in

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1971

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what was new economic policy (NEP)

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wages and prices frozen and the dollar devalued
- helped stimulate exports

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cause of great inflation in 1973

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devlauation of dollar in 1973 (after success of 1971)
abandonment of wage price controls

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why was energy an economic issue

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energy deficit - consumed 33% of world oil production depsitre being only 6%

30
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OPEC oil embargo

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nixon supported isreal in arab israeli war so led to embargo
- oil prices hiked to 387%

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3 methods to achieve peace with honour in vietnam

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  • vietnamisation
  • getting USSR and China to press N/V to agree to peace
  • military pressure to force NV to agree
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why did he bomb Ho Chi Minh trail in 1969

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to sever communist supply lines

33
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what showed the failure of Vietnamisation

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Lam Son Offensive in Laos

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what did cambodian offensive achieve in 1970

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  • very little
  • protests
35
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paris peace accords signed in what month and year

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jan 1973

36
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how much money did nixon grant the CIA to destabilise Allendes govt

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10 mil

37
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4 things to destabilise Chile Allende

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  • CIA had 10 mil to destabilise govt
  • stopped all aid and influenced banks to halt loans to chile
  • funded Allendes chillean opponents
  • perhaps colluded in his overthrow by general Pinochet
38
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Operation Condor

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Pinochet and other right wing dictators estb this
- these nations particupated in political assasinations and kidnapping and transferring of political refugees to their homelands

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nixon administration involvement in operation condor

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  • financial, organisational and technological aid
40
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how many deaths was opereation condor repsonsible for

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50,000

41
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why did they want detente (4)

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  • appear as a peace loving statesman (elections in 1972)
  • ussr increasingly powerful
  • moscow could help force nv peace
  • arms race was expensive
42
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who was soviet leader

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Brezhnev

43
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how did USSR and USA decrease tensions in germay

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USSR. acknowledged Western access rights to W/B and West acknwoledged East Germany’s frontiers

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SALT 1972 meaning

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strategic arms limitations treaty

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impact of SALT 1972

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  • froze number of nuclear missiles
  • soviets still tested multople warheads in 1973
46
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who was winning arms race by 1972

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soviets had more missiles but usa had more warheads on each of their missiles

47
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what year were the plumbers set up (white hosue special investigative untit)

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1971

48
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what did the plumbers do to get info

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stage break-ins etc

49
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examples of things CREEP did that were illegal/ wrong

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  • illegal fundraising - maccies paid $200,000 for unauthorises cheeseburger price raise
  • unfairly discrediting democrat canditate
  • criminal surveillance - break ins
50
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what went wrong in the CREEP break in at watergate hotel (democrat headquarters)

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security guard caught five burgulars and two co ordinators in another building were also arrested

51
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what was CREEP’s aim for the break in

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find something to help or hinder nixons re election

52
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how did the FBI trace the arrests back to CREEP

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laundered money on the plumbers to CREEP

53
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how did nixon obstruct justice

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  • him and haldeman discussed using CIA to stop FBI investigation (CIA refused)
  • tried to buy burgulars silence
54
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when were the Burgulars found guilty (month and year)

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jan 1973

55
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how long aftre burgulars arrest in jan 1973 did senate estb bipartisan committee on presidential campaign activities

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a month

56
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what was the highest ranking watergate confessor

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ex attorney General John Mitchell

57
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who did nixon try put the blame on

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Ehrlichmen and Haldeman

58
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what happened in july 1973 (watergate)

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aid revealed nixon secretly taped conversations in whitehouse

59
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what was revealed on one of the tapes in 1974

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nixon had acc ordered the cover-up and conspired to obstruct justice

60
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three articles of impeachment on grounds of:

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  • obstruction of justice (coverup)
  • abuse of power (authorising wiretapping etc)
  • abuse of congress (ignoring subpoenas issued by judiciary committee)
61
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what percent of americans favoured impeachment

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66%

62
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when did he resign
(month and year)

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August 1974

63
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why did he resign

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  • too expensive to fight it
  • feared criminal prosecution
  • house judiciary committee promised him no further changes if he reisigned
  • democrats in majoirty in house and senate and lost support fo congressional repubs so would deffo be impeached
64
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what two people exposed watergate in washington post

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Woodward and Bernstein

65
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3 impacts of watergate scandal

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  • damanged repub party
  • cynicism and distrust of govt
  • damaged presidency

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