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History_12 week test
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what was the courts decision in the case U.S. vs. Nixon? | unaniumously agreed that Nixon had to turn over the tapes |
| under what circumstances might executive privelege have been properly asserted? | under "military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets" |
| what reason did the president feel justified his claim of executive privelege? | 1.to protect the confidentiality of high level communications 2.the principle of seperation of powers protects the president throught the independence of the executive branch |
| what rights did the court see in opposition to the presidents claim? | the sixth ammendment rights of an accused to subpoena evidence |
| when was the wall dedicated? | veteran's day 1982 |
| who was the person who lobbied for the memorial? | jan scruggs in 1979 |
| how was money raised to build the wall? | through donations ($7million) - secured 2 acresby 1980 in washington d.c. |
| whose proposal was chosen for the wall & why was this contreversial? | MayaLin - CHINESE AMERICAN women & we had been having conflicts with them |
| describe 5 characteristics of the wall | 1.250 ft long 2.goes down into the earth 10 ft 3.58,191 names in chronological order 4.there's symbols by each name to represent their status 5.located near the lincoln memorial |
| describe the statue of the nurses at the wall | 3 nurses, 1 looking for the helicopter,1 holding a wounded soldier, 1 talking on the radio - completely bronze |
| how many woman served in the vietnam war? how many died? | 11,500 served, 7 died |
| who was the scupltor for the statue at the wall of the 3 nurses? | Diane Evans |
| what was a white village? | a village that was friendly&safe to enter |
| what was a grey village? | a village that was mixed with hate of the soldiers and frienliness towards the soldiers |
| what was a black village? | a violent village that hated the soldiers |
| describe the 4 different regions of vietnam | mountains, jungle, rice patties, delta |
| what was a walking point? | the first person in the single file line - keeps an eye out for booby traps, V.C., trip wires - carred a shotgun |
| what was the walking slack? | the second guy in line - protects the first guy in line while hes busy looking out for things on the ground |
| what were the c-rations? | cans of food, heavy to carry |
| what were the LRP's? | Long Range Recon. Patrol - food supply, light to carry, tasted good |
| how long did the vietnam war last? | 9 years |
| how many U.S. were killed? | 58,152 killed |
| north vietnamese & viet cong killed | 855,000 |
| % of combat under 21 | 64% |
| how much mondey did the war cost? | $168 BILLION - who mama. 2nd most expensive war) |
| what was agent orange? | defoliator - leaves fall off making it easier for the soldiers to see where their enemy is b/c they liked to hide behind the trees |
| what were the effects of using agent orange? | caused cancer, sank down into the ground-> into the river, into peoples digestive systems = cancer |
| executive clemency | the lessing of punishment by order of the prsident, had been promised to the Watergate burgalars |
| new federalism | Nixon 1969, plan to cut the federal government role in the economy by turning over many of its tasks to state & local gov. ex:states build own highways, etc. |
| stagflation | a stalled economy in a period of inflation |
| describe nixon's try to stop inflation | n. raised people's interests to make less $ available for them to spend -> borrowing and buying stops & businesses began to cut back, unemployment & prices rose -> STAGFLATION |
| describe nixon's try to stop stagflation(New Economic Policy) | August 1971 - 90 day freeze on wages and prices followed by a system of wage and price controls, against Nixon's belief in interprise, slowed inflation in time, didn't help the economy grow or lower unemployment |
| when the new economic policy was lifted what happened? | prices rose again, (Jan 1973) |
| what does salt stand for? | strategic arms limitation treaty |
| what is the salt 1? | the U.S. and the soviet union agreed to limit production of certain misseles |
| what was the importance of nixon's visit to moscow? | first president to visit there |
| what did the 2 countries both agree on in the salt 1 treaty? | should have closer economic and business ties - us agreed to sell wheat to the soviet union=largest export grin order the us had ever received |
| who visited washington in 1973 to meet up with nixon, congress members and american business leaders? | the soviet premier Brezhnev |
| in washington, what did the 2 leaders agree on? | agreed that the 2 powers would work on another SALT agreement, their nations should avoid actions that might lead to nuclear war, to work together in the areas of business,science and culture |
| what president was in power when....perjury, women's organization, de facto segregation, revenue sharing plan | nixon |
| what president was in power when...space shuttle, desegragation, nuclear arms control, pardoning | ford |
| what president was in power when... | human rights, panama canal, hostage crisis, windfall profits, camp david, deregulation of gas and oil, crisis in afghanastan |
| revenue-sharing plan | nixon, to help state gov. take over their new taks from new federalism. |
| what would the fed. gov. give to the local and state gov.? | part of its revenues |
| Local Fiscal Assistance Act | 1972 - granted state and local gov. more the $30 billion over 5 years to use as they saw fit on local/state programs |
| what fear did ams. have about the fiscal assis. act? | that withough federal rules, the money would not e used to help all people equally |
| subpoena | written legal order - nixon was issued a suboena to hand over the tapes - nixon fired cox -> hired Leon Jaworskito replace him - turned over some tapes - 18 mins were missing -> lost faith in the president & demands for impeachment |
| spiro agnew | vice president under nixon |
| when and why did agnew resign from office? | October 1973 - had been charged with accepting bribes as governor of Maryland and as Vice President. |
| who replaced agnew after he resigned? | Gerald R. Ford - House Minority Leader, the first person to become vicepresident under the 25th ammendmant(changed in 1976) |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| list the 3 men who were charged (watergate) | haldeman, ehrlichman, mitchell |
| what were the 3 men charged with (watergate) | conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury - late convicted of these charges and sent to prison |
| what were the 3 articles of impeachment the House Judiciary Committee against nixon? | obstructing justice, misusing presidential power, defying the committee's subpoenas |
| when did nixon resign? | august 9th, 1974 - fist president ever to resign |
| first person to serve as president who had not been elected to either the presidency or vice presidency | ford |
| what did ford hope to do when taking presidency? | restore the faith in the government, tought time: watergate - americans greeted him favorably |
| pardon of nixon | september, 1974 - ford pardoned nixon for any crime that he might have committed while in office -> meant nixon would not have to face ceiminal charges for his part in watergate. why: ford hoped pardonning would help heal the wounds of watergate |
| what was america's reaction to fords pardonning? | many ams. were angered by the pardon and lost the good feelings for ford |
| economic policy | ford had promised a balanced budget with cuts in fed. spending. the democrats were against this - called for spending increases -> ford made changes in budgetthat would bring it to more of congres's favor |
| what was one of the main problems ford had to face? how did he deal with it? | rising inflation - used price controls to hold prices down -> not able to do much more than nixon did to slow inflation |
| deregulation | ford, removing price controls on gas and oil - prices would rise -> people use less fuel. higher profits from higher prices=aid companies in develop. new forms of energy - was not able to pass this my congress |
| Energy Polcy and Conservation Act | dealt with saving fuel and finding new forms of energy (ford) |
| spaceshuttle | a spaceship that would carry people to and from space - could be used many times unlike earlier spacecrafts |
| ford's space program | 1975 - u.s and s.u. carried out a joint space mission |
| what was the names of the 2 spaceshuttles of the 2 countries?what did they represent? | American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz - docked together while orbiting the earth - symbolized the spirit of detente between the 2 powers |
| foreign policy | ford, followed nixons lead - worked for closer relations with China, carried on detente with s.u., worked for nuclear arms control. |
| Vladivostok Accored | ford, signed in dec. 1974 when f visited the soviet union - with premier brezhnev - helped lay basis for a SALT II treaty |
| election of 1967 | ford vs. jimmy carter (democrat) - former gov. of georgia, carter won |
| what were some of the promises made to america by carter? | he would balance the budget and cut litary spending, create jobs to lower unemployment, planned to "clean up" the envir. n make certain changes in foreign policy |
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