20TH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
REVIEW
CHAPTER 24n
VOCABULARY
Wall
Street Riots, Conservative Backlash, Silent Majority, Southern Strategy,
Pentagon Papers, Détente, Balance of Power, Realpolitik,
Watergate, Bunker Mentality, Saturday Night Massacre, U.S. v. Nixon, War
Powers Act, Freedom of Information Act, Impeachment, Inner Circle, Peoples
Republic of China, Plumbers, Enemies List, New Federalism, Revenue Sharing,
Stagflation, Camp David Accords, Linkage, Impoundment, Yon Kippur War, Imperial
Presidency, Stagflation, Southern Strategy, Reverse Discrimination, Helsinki
Accords, Revenue Sharing, Wage and Price Controls, Pardon, Executive Privilege,
Affirmative Action, University of California v. Bakke
ACRONYMS
SDS,
SALT, CREEP, OPEC, CIA, WIN, EPA, NAACP, TMI, DNC
PERSONALITIES
John Mitchell, Spiro Agnew, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Ellsberg, Leonid Brezhnev, George McGovern, H.R. Haldeman, John Dean, John Erlichman, J. Edgar Hoover, Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward, John Sirica, Sam Irwin, James McCord, Archibald Cox, Alexander Butterfield, Gerald Ford, G.Gordon Liddy, Leon Jaworski, Ayaatollah Khomeni, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Began, James Carter, Nelson Rockafeller, Leonoid Brezhnev
ESSAYS
1. Define Imperial Presidency. Relate this to
the Nixon presidency and to the election of Jimmy Carter
2. Discuss
the Nixon agenda labeled as New Conservatism and New Federalism, illustrating
how they proved to be a significant departure from the Johnsonian presidency.
3. Incorporate the terms realpolitik,
Balance of Power, and Detente with
the foreign policy of the Nixon
administration in the wake of the Vietnam war.
4. List
and discuss the major components and
the major players of the Camp David
Accords emphasizing their significance
5.
Discuss
the events surrounding what has come to be known as Watergate with regard to why it all came about, what it led to and
what were it’s lasting implications upon the BALANCE OF POWER within our
federal system.
6.
Define
Stagflation. Discuss how both Nixon and Carter attempted to tackle this
economic malaise.
7.
List
and discuss the major components and
the major players of the Camp David
Accords emphasizing their significance.
8.
List
the characteristics of a conservative. Incorporate these characteristics with
the Nixonian agenda referred to as New Conservatism.
9.
Put
the Iran Hostage crisis in perspective relative to past and present