MOD Nixon/Watergate

Who did Nixon beat in the 1972 Election

George McGovern

The people who said they felt left out with protest going on

The Silent Majority

Strategy Nixon used to gain Northern and Souther favor

The Southern Strategy

What did Nixon do in the southern strategy ?

He talked about states rights, and segregation in the south. Then education, school roads, etc..

What did Nixon support to make himself popular

Social Programs

What did Nixon support that Democrats also supported

AFDC, Social Security, and Disability Payments

what healthcare plan did Nixon support that was very liberal

National Dual-provided health plan

What was Affirmative Action also known as

The Philadelphia Plan

What did Affirmative Action do

Helped black Americans with job and college applications

what did the quota system do for black Americans

it ensured that there were 16 spots for the best Black Americans

What did white Americans say Affirmative Action was

Reverse Discrimination

What are the two types of segregation

De Jure - laws that support segreagtion

De Facto - non legal laws that segregated due to Black Americans not having as much money

what was white and blacks mixing in interface schools called

Court Order Busing

what court case increased De Facto segregation

Milliken vs. Bradley

What mother went to violence to ensure that black kids were not on the same bus as white kids in Boston

Louise Day Hicks

What was Nixons group of advisors called

The Berlin wall

Members of Nixons “Berlin Wall”

H. R. Haldeman

John Ehrilchman

John Mitchell

What group did Nixon make in fear of Leaks

The Plumbers

What leaked that got Nixon scared about leaks, it happened before his time

The Pentagon Papers

what did the pentagon papers have in it

The truth about the USS Maddox and our plans to assassinate Diem

What group was made to help Nixon win the election in 1972 through any means

CREEP (Congress to R E Electing the President)

What were the series of illegal attacks on the democratic party called

Operation GEMSTONE

Who did Nixon send CREEP to Burglarize at the Watergate Apartments

DNC (Democratic National Chairman) Laurence O’Brian

Why did Nixon send CREEP to Watergate

To see what dirt the Democrats had on him

Who’s info were the Burgalurs caught with

E. Howard Hunt

Name of one of the Burglars

James McCord

Name of the Judge who went over the Watergate case

Judge John Sirica

who were the two reporters that believed Nixon was at fault for water gate

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

What did the senate want from Nixon after they started an investigation on him

the House Tapes (Nixon Tapes)

Who was the prosecutor that Nixon wanted fired

Archibald Cox

Who did Nixon appoint to fire Cox, but instead resigned

Attorney General Elliot Richardson

What was the Saturday Night Massacre

Elliot Richardson resigning and then his predecessor doing the same soon after

What did the Berlin wall say all the blocked out words were in the Transcript of the House Tapes

Expletive Deleted

what was the reason said for the 18 ½ minute gap in the released House Tapes

The Rose Mary Stretch

what did people say to do to Nixon

“Impeach the [Expletive Deleted]”

What did Nixon Resigning do

led to a cynical public and press

What is the DISCO era a combination of

the Socially Conscious era and the Me era

First TV show where black people where shown in a good light

The Jeffersons

The show with a single carrer driven woman

The Mary Tyler More Show

A show that was very critical of the US military

M*A*S*H

The show talking about problems in the US while using humor with the character of Archie a grumpy old guy

All In The Family

What forbade the use of violence and sex in movies that was later removed

The Hollywood Code

two directors who took full advantage of the Hollywood Code removal and got famous from it

Martin Scorseise and Francis Ford Copolla

Who made Star Wars

George Lucas

Who became President after Nixon and his V.P. Spiro Agnew resigned

Gerold Ford

How did Ford “lose the election day one”

By Pardoning Nixon and forgiving the Draft Dodgers

By Pardoning Nixon and forgiving the Draft Dodgers who did Ford anger

Every American, Dem mad at Nixon being Pardoned Rep (blue Collar) mad that Draft Dodgers are forgiven

What did Americans feel was broken by Ford

The Rule of Law, Pres. had too much power

What was forming during the 70s

A wage gap, space between upper class and middle class grew

What were the two way Ford “combated” the gap

Raising interest rates and cutting spending

What did Ford do after Americans started to look to him to help with inflation

WIN (Whip Inflation Now) Pins

What can Gerold Fords time as President be described as

an Economic Collapse