Transcript Standard 25 Powerpoint with questions

Standard 25
The student will describe
changes in national policies
since 1968.
A
The Nixon Presidency
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Richard Nixon is
credited with opening
relations with China.
He reduced many trade
restrictions between the
U.S. and China, and
silenced anti-China
voices within the White
House.
In February 1972,
President and Mrs.
Nixon traveled to China.
Watergate
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The term Watergate has come to
encompass an array of illegal and
secret activities undertaken by the
Nixon administration.
The activities came to light in the
aftermath of five men, known as the
Plumbers, being caught breaking
into Democratic party headquarters
at the Watergate Hotel in
Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972.
The Washington Post picked up on
the story, while reporters Carl
Bernstein and Bob Woodward relied
on an FBI informant known as
"Deep Throat" to link the men to the
Nixon White House.
Nixon resigned the office of the
presidency on August 9, 1974
American Attitudes Toward the
Government Sour
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Because of Watergate,
and the ensuing coverup, America’s view of
the government
started to sour.
People began to view
the government as
corrupt and
untrustworthy.
The Ford Presidency
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
was the 38th President of
the United States.
He took over after Richard
Nixon resigned.
Ford pardoned Nixon of all
transgressions.
He presided over what
were then the worst
economic times since the
1930s.
Ford survived two
assassination attempts.
He is viewed as a highly
ineffective president.
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Richard Nixon was
A.
B.
C.
D.
A president who took a hard-line military stance against
the Chinese and enthusiastically supported civil rights
legislation.
The first president to publicly recognize communist
China and eventually resigned due to a scandal.
The only man ever to serve as both president and vice
president without being elected to either office.
A former governor of Georgia who went on to become
president and improve relations with communist nations.
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Watergate is remembered as an important
event in US history because it
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B.
C.
D.
Resulted in only the second presidential
impeachment in history.
Nearly destroyed the Reagan presidency.
Forced a US president to resign in disgrace.
Ended the political career of Lyndon
Johnson.
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Watergate badly damaged citizens’
confidence in
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Constitution.
The power of Congress.
The executive branch.
The media.
B
Roe v. Wade
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The case resulted in a
landmark decision
regarding abortion.
Most laws against
abortion in the United
States violated a
constitutional right to
privacy under the Due
Process Clause of the
Fourteenth
Amendment.
University of California v.
Bakke
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It was a landmark decision
of the Supreme Court of
the United States on
affirmative action.
It bars quota systems in
college admissions but
affirms the constitutionality
of affirmative action
programs giving equal
access to minorities.
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A pregnant woman had the right to get
an abortion in any state due to
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Equal Rights Amendment.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Regents
of UC v. Bakke.
SDI.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v.
Wade.
C
The Carter Presidency
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James Earl "Jimmy"
Carter, Jr. served as
the 39th President of
the United States.
The Camp David
Accords, one of
Carter's most
important
accomplishments as
President, were a
peace agreement
between Israel and
Egypt.
Iranian Issues
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The Shah of Iran had been a strong
ally of the United States.
The Iranian Revolution broke out in
Iran and the Shah was overthrown.
Carter granted the Shah entry and
temporary asylum for the duration of
his cancer treatment.
In response to the Shah's entry into
the U.S., Iranian militants seized the
American embassy in Tehran, taking
52 Americans hostage.
Although the release of the
hostages was negotiated and
secured under the Carter
administration, the hostages were
released on January 20, 1981,
moments after Ronald Reagan was
sworn in as President.
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Jimmy Carter was praised for which of
the following?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Watergate
His handling of the Iranian Hostage
Crisis
The Camp David Accords
Instituting WIN
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A good campaign strategy for Jimmy
Carter in 1980 would have been to
focus on
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B.
C.
D.
Camp David Accords.
Iran Hostage Crisis.
State of the economy.
SALT II.
D
The Reagan Presidency
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was the
40th President of the United
States.
"Reaganomics“, Reagan’s
economic plan, were an example
of supply-side economics.
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Reagan gave tax cuts to the
wealthy in the hopes that they
would pass the wealth down.
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Also known as “trickle-down
economics”.
Reagan aimed to encourage
entrepreneurship and limit the
growth of social spending, as
well as to reduce regulation and
inflation.
The national debt increased
significantly
The Iran-Contra Scandal
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The Iran-Contra affair was
a political scandal in the
United States which came
to light in November 1986,
during the Reagan
administration, over an
arms-for-hostages deal
with Iran and funding for
the Nicaraguan Contras.
Large modifications to the
plan were conjured by
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver
North.
The Collapse of the Soviet
Union
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Reagan directly confronted the
Soviet Union through a policy
of "peace through strength,"
including increased military
spending.
The Soviet Union attempted to
keep pace with US military
spending.
This attempt to keep pace led
to the collapse of the
communist economic system
and the fall of the Soviet
Union.
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Although he was not in office when the
Berlin Wall came down and the USSR
dissolved, many citizens give credit for
ending the Cold War to
A.
B.
C.
D.
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
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Reagan’s economic plan once he took
office was nicknamed
A.
B.
C.
D.
“conservative money theory”
“Reaganomics”
“national debt”
“stagflation”
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Which US president viewed the USSR
as an “evil empire” that could not be
trusted and therefore pursued a
massive build up of US military forces?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
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A critic of Ronald Reagan would probably
focus on which of the following?
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B.
C.
D.
The end of the Cold War.
The state of the US economy from 1983 to
1988.
The Iran-Contra Scandal.
The state of the US military when Reagan
left office.