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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
japanese and german products, often cheaper and often better
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new economic policy (NEP) introduced in
1971
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what was new economic policy (NEP)
wages and prices frozen and the dollar devalued - helped stimulate exports
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cause of great inflation in 1973
devlauation of dollar in 1973 (after success of 1971) abandonment of wage price controls
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why was energy an economic issue
energy deficit - consumed 33% of world oil production depsitre being only 6%
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OPEC oil embargo
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
- 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
to sever communist supply lines
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what showed the failure of Vietnamisation
Lam Son Offensive in Laos
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what did cambodian offensive achieve in 1970
- very little - protests
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paris peace accords signed in what month and year
jan 1973
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how much money did nixon grant the CIA to destabilise Allendes govt
10 mil
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4 things to destabilise Chile Allende
- 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
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Operation Condor
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
- financial, organisational and technological aid
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how many deaths was opereation condor repsonsible for
50,000
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why did they want detente (4)
- appear as a peace loving statesman (elections in 1972) - ussr increasingly powerful - moscow could help force nv peace - arms race was expensive
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who was soviet leader
Brezhnev
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how did USSR and USA decrease tensions in germay
USSR. acknowledged Western access rights to W/B and West acknwoledged East Germany's frontiers
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SALT 1972 meaning
strategic arms limitations treaty
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impact of SALT 1972
- froze number of nuclear missiles - soviets still tested multople warheads in 1973
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who was winning arms race by 1972
soviets had more missiles but usa had more warheads on each of their missiles
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what year were the plumbers set up (white hosue special investigative untit)
1971
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what did the plumbers do to get info
stage break-ins etc
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examples of things CREEP did that were illegal/ wrong
- illegal fundraising - maccies paid $200,000 for unauthorises cheeseburger price raise - unfairly discrediting democrat canditate - criminal surveillance - break ins
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what went wrong in the CREEP break in at watergate hotel (democrat headquarters)
security guard caught five burgulars and two co ordinators in another building were also arrested
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what was CREEP's aim for the break in
find something to help or hinder nixons re election
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how did the FBI trace the arrests back to CREEP
laundered money on the plumbers to CREEP
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how did nixon obstruct justice
- him and haldeman discussed using CIA to stop FBI investigation (CIA refused) - tried to buy burgulars silence
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when were the Burgulars found guilty (month and year)
jan 1973
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how long aftre burgulars arrest in jan 1973 did senate estb bipartisan committee on presidential campaign activities
a month
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what was the highest ranking watergate confessor
ex attorney General John Mitchell
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who did nixon try put the blame on
Ehrlichmen and Haldeman
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what happened in july 1973 (watergate)
aid revealed nixon secretly taped conversations in whitehouse
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what was revealed on one of the tapes in 1974
nixon had acc ordered the cover-up and conspired to obstruct justice
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three articles of impeachment on grounds of:
- obstruction of justice (coverup) - abuse of power (authorising wiretapping etc) - abuse of congress (ignoring subpoenas issued by judiciary committee)
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what percent of americans favoured impeachment
66%
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when did he resign (month and year)
August 1974
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why did he resign
- 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
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what two people exposed watergate in washington post
Woodward and Bernstein
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3 impacts of watergate scandal
- damanged repub party - cynicism and distrust of govt - damaged presidency

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