Chapter 28: The Unraveling

New York Times

New York Times

In 1971, the Nixon administration tried unsuccessfully to sue the ________ and the Washington Post to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a confidential and damning history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam commissioned by the Defense Department and later leaked.

President Johnson

In 1967, ________ appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate the causes of Americas riots.

Jimmy Carter

When ________ took the oath of office on January 20, 1977, however, he became president of a nation in the midst of economic turmoil.

Taft Hartley Act

The ________ in 1947 facilitated southern states frontal assault on unions

Martin Luther King Jr

________ was killed on April 4, 1968

American cities

The perseverance into the present day of stark racial and economic segregation in nearly all ________ destroyed any simple distinction between southern de jure segregation and nonsouthern de facto segregation.

Florida

In 1977, activists in Dade County, ________, used the slogan "Save Our Children "to overturn an ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Miller

________ v. California (1973), a case over the unsolicited mailing of sexually explicit advertisements for illustrated "adult "books, held that the First Amendment did not protect "obscene "material, defined by the Court as anything with sexual appeal that lacked, "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Detroit

In ________ and elsewhere after World War II, white workers participated in "hate strikes "where they walked off the job rather than work with African Americans.

Sun Belt

The ________ inverted Rust Belt realities: the South and West had growing numbers of high- skill, high- wage jobs but lacked the social and educational infrastructure needed to train native poor and middle- class workers for those jobs.

Carter

During the 1976 presidential campaign, ________ had touted the "misery index, "the simple addition of the unemployment rate to the inflation rate, as an indictment of Gerald Ford and Republican rule, but ________ failed to slow the unraveling of the American economy.

Vietnam

________ poisoned many Americans perceptions of their government and its role in the world, and ended up pushing many Americans towards conservatism.

Growing international competition, technological inefficiency, and declining productivity gains stunted working

and middle-class wages

The Sun Belt inverted Rust Belt realities

the South and West had growing numbers of high-skill, high-wage jobs but lacked the social and educational infrastructure needed to train native poor and middle-class workers for those jobs

The result was that Carter, like Ford before him, presided over a hitherto unimagined economic dilemma

the simultaneous onset of inflation and economic stagnation, a combination popularized as stagflation

The collapse of American manufacturing, the stubborn rise of inflation, the sudden impotence of American foreign policy, and a culture ever more divided

the sense of unraveling pervaded the nation

1968 Tet Offensive

The ________________ was an attack by Vietnamese forces on US forces which proved that despite the repeated claims of administration officials, the enemy could still strike at will anywhere in the country, even after years of war

Law and order

What was the platform that Richard Nixon ran on?

The Paris Peace Accords

What treaty ended the US force commitment to the Vietnam War?

Black Power movement

The ___________________ challenged the integrationist dreams of many older activists

Robert F. Kennedy

_______________________ was killed June 6th, 1968

Nixon Doctrine

The ___________________ turned America away from the policy of active, anti-communist containment, and toward a new strategy of détente

Pentagon Papers

The ________________ were a a confidential and damning history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam commissioned by the Defense Department and later leaked

War Powers Resolution

The ______________________ was an act passed by Congress that dramatically reduced the president’s ability to wage war without congressional consent

Watergate

A political scandal involving Nixon's abuse of power, bribery, and, obstruction of justice

Taft-Hartley Act

The __________________ facilitated southern states’ frontal assault on unions

Roe v. Wade

_______________________________ held that states could not interfere with a woman’s right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy and could only fully prohibit abortions during the third trimester

Miller v. California

____________________ held that the First Amendment did not protect “obscene” material, defined by the Court as anything with sexual appeal that lacked, “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”

Stonewall Riots

The __________________ happened police raided the Stonewall in June 1969 and bar patrons protested and sparked a multiday street battle that catalyzed a national movement for gay liberation