1. Unit 12

2. Section 1

3. Conservative Liberal Foreign Policy Small Government: Southern Appeal:
Drugs and Crime:
Liberal
Examples:
Foreign Policy
RealPolitik:
Détente
China
Oil Embargo
Shuttle Diplomacy

4. Conservative Smaller Government Attempted to appeal to South
New Federalism
Local governments spend more
Attempted to appeal to South
Segregationists
Weakened voting rights
Firm stands against drugs and crime
Appointed 4 Supreme Court Justices

5. Liberal Increased social programs Environmentalist Worker’s laws
Silent Spring
EPA
Clean Air Act
Worker’s laws
OSHA
Affirmative Action increased

6. Nixon Foreign Policy Kissinger and Realpolitik Détente China
NSA and Sec. of State
Based foreign policy on realistic view of nationalist interest not broad policies
Détente
Attempt to ease tensions with the Soviets
SALT I Treaty
China
Attempted to improve relations

7. Middle East
Israel
Six Day War
Yom Kippur War

8. Oil Embargo Shuttle Diplomacy OPEC embargoed Israeli Supporters
Hurt US economy
Shuttle Diplomacy
Kissinger
Group to group negotiations
Embargo lifted when fighting stopped

9. Inflation and Price Control
NASA
Apollo 11
Landed on the moon
1969
Neil Armstrong
Inflation and Price Control
Nixon froze prices and wages for 90 days
Slowed inflation

10. Section 2

11. Watergate Ford Plumbers: Washington Post: Tapes: Senate Reaction:
Executive Privilege:
Resignation:
Ford
Pardon:
Should he?

12. Election of 1972 Plumbers Nixon (R ) defeated McGovern (D)
Worried Nixon spied on Democrats
Plumbers
Nixon’s advisers
Attempted to destroy reputation of Pentagon Papers leak
Broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel

13. Scandal Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Nixon ordered investigation
Washington Post
Nixon ordered investigation
Erlichman and Haldeman resigned
Alexander Butterfield
White House Aid alerted of Nixon’s Tapes
Archibald Cox and Senate
Investigators trying to find story behind the Scandal
Nixon order Att. Gen. Elliot Richardson to fire Cox
Refused and quit
Same for next in line, 3rd official fired Cox

14. Executive Privilege Resignation
Nixon claimed as president he did not have to turn over the tapes
Turned over edited versions and transcripts
Resignation
SC ordered tapes must be turned over
Impeachment was coming

15. Ford’s Presidency Gerald Ford Was not elected Pardoned Nixon
Replaced Spiro Agnew as VP
Agnew resigned over tax problems
Leader in House
Pardoned Nixon
Continued much of Nixon’s policies
Won nomination for 1976 Election
Narrowly beat out Reagan

16. Section 3

17. Carter’s Domestic Policy
Election:
Energy:
Inflation:
Environmentalism:
Carter’s Foreign Policy
Soviets:
Panama Canal:
China:
Camp David Accords:
Hostage Crisis:

18. Election of 1976 Energy Inflation Environmentalism
Ford (R ) defeated by Carter (D)
Energy
Tried to decrease foreign dependence
Inflation
New jobs did not help
Environmentalism
Alaska National Interests Land Conservation Act
Three Mile Island
Nuclear plant meltdown
Love Canal
Chemical dump

19. Carter’s Foreign Policy
Foreign Relations
Soviets
SALT II
Panama Canal
Treaty handed canal back to Panama
China
Formally recognized
Camp David Accords
Agreement between Israel and Egypt

20. Afghanistan Iran Soviets invaded Carter stopped shipping grain
Shah overthrown by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Shah allowed into US
Angry Iranians overthrew American embassy in Tehran
Hostages taken
Un-solved by Carter