Ap Us History Chapter 30

Front 1

Benign Neglect-

Back 1

Nixon’s policy of ignoring issues of race

Front 2

AFDC-

Back 2

Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The largest welfare program.

Front 3

EPA-

Back 3

Environmental Protection Agency. Created by Nixon in 1970.

Front 4

OSHA-

Back 4

Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Created by Nixon in 1972.

Front 5

Miranda v. Arizona-

Back 5

1966 Supreme Court case requiring police officers to inform defendants of rights

Front 6

Engel v. Vitale-

Back 6

1962 Supreme Court decision that banned organized prayer in public schools

Front 7

Burger-

Back 7

Nixon’s conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice

Front 8

Roe v. Wade-

Back 8

1972 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion

Front 9

Election of 1972-

Back 9

Nixon beats anti-war liberal dem McGovern whose running mate Eagleton had to withdraw from race after revelations about his electroshock therapy emerged

Front 10

Watergate-

Back 10

Scandal that forced Nixon’s resignation in Aug 1974

Front 11

Pentagon Papers-

Back 11

Ex-Defense Dept analyst Ellsberg’s leaked info on Vietnam War

Front 12

Plumbers-

Back 12

Nixon’s secret organization designed to plug Whitehouse leaks

Front 13

Enemies List-

Back 13

Nixon’s list of political enemies who were sometimes targeted by Nixon

Front 14

CREEP-

Back 14

Committee to Re-Elect the President. Nixon support group in 1972.

Front 15

The Break-In-

Back 15

CREEP breaks into Democratic National Committee’s offices in Watergate Hotel in 1972

Front 16

Haldeman-

Back 16

Nixon’s Chief of Staff who helped in cover-up

Front 17

The Cover-Up-

Back 17

Attempt by Nixon to cover up the Watergate break-in

Front 18

Dean-

Back 18

Nixon’s legal counsel who helped in cover-up

Front 19

Woodward and Bernstein-

Back 19

Washington Post reporters who exposed Nixon’s role in Watergate with help of informant Deepthroat

Front 20

The Tapes-

Back 20

Tapes of conversations of Oval Office conversations that were subpoenaed by Senate. An 18-minute gap made them quite controversial.

Front 21

Agnew-

Back 21

Nixon’s VP who had resigned in 1973 due to a bribery scandal

Front 22

Ford-

Back 22

Took over for Nixon in 1974 and pardoned him one month later

Front 23

Freedom of Information Act-

Back 23

1974 law that required more openness by federal gov’t

Front 24

OPEC-

Back 24

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Formed in 1960 to regulate oil prices it embargoed oil to West in 1973 in retaliation for West’s support of Israel in Yom Kippur War pushing price of gas up 40%.

Front 25

Trade Deficit-

Back 25

Importing more than exporting. The US had its first trade deficit in 1971.

Front 26

Stagflation-

Back 26

Combination of inflation and unemployment that gripped the US in 1970s

Front 27

Deindustrialization-

Back 27

1970s process of losing industry

Front 28

Rust Belt-

Back 28

Great Lakes industrial region (especially auto makers) beset by deindustrialization in 1970s

Front 29

Right to Work Laws-

Back 29

1970s anti-union laws allowing people to opt out of unions

Front 30

Me Decade-

Back 30

Writer Tom Wolfe’s term for the 1970s during which people focused on personal satisfaction

Front 31

Silent Spring-

Back 31

Rachel Carson’s 1962 book about pesticides which launched a new environmental movement

Front 32

Love Canal-

Back 32

NY state housing development built on a toxic waste site where birth defects led to investigation

Front 33

Three Mile Island-

Back 33

1979 near-nuclear disaster in PA

Front 34

Earth Day-

Back 34

Begun in 1970

Front 35

Clean Air Act-

Back 35

1970 Nixon law

Front 36

Nader-

Back 36

Consumer advocate whose 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed attacked General Motors and who later established a consumer protection organization dubbed “Nader’s Raiders”

Front 37

Consumer Products Safety Commission-

Back 37

1972 Nixon agency

Front 38

Gloria Steinem-

Back 38

Feminist & founder of Ms. Magazine in 1972

Front 39

Title XI-

Back 39

Part of Educational Amendments Act of 1972 that required additional funding for women’s programs in schools

Front 40

Affirmative Action-

Back 40

1966 Johnson initiative that established hiring & enrollment goals for women & minorities. Some consider it a form of “reverse discrimination”.

Front 41

Griswold v. Connecticut-

Back 41

1965 Supreme Court decision that legalized contraceptives

Front 42

ERA-

Back 42

Equal Rights Amendment. First introduced in 1923 & almost passed in 1974 but ultimately defeated by anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly’s STOP ERA organization

Front 43

Feminization of Poverty-

Back 43

Post-1970s trend of poor, female-led families

Front 44

National Gay Task Force-

Back 44

1973 organization to promote gay rights

Front 45

Busing-

Back 45

Term for busing students to different schools to integrate after controversial Milliken v. Bradley (1974) decision required more aggressive integration policies. It led to “white fight” as many better off white parents put their kids in private schools

Front 46

Bakke v. U of CA-

Back 46

Inconclusive 1978 decision that ruled white applicant Bakke had been discriminated against & should be admitted to U of CA med school BUT that affirmative action was still permitted in certain situations

Front 47

Proposition 13-

Back 47

1978 CA anti-tax measure that became a model for other anti-tax measures nationwide

Front 48

Moral Majority-

Back 48

Evangelical preacher Jerry Falwell’s conservative “family values” movement of 1980s

Front 49

New Right-

Back 49

Term for post-1970s conservative movement comprised of evangelical Christians, social & fiscal conservatives & neoconservatives like Glazier & Podhoretz

Front 50

Election of 1976-

Back 50

Dems Carter & Mondale defeat repub Ford & Dole

Front 51

Superfund-

Back 51

Carter program to clean up toxic waste dumps

Front 52

MEOW-

Back 52

Moral Equivalent of War. Carter’s term for encouraging energy conservation

Front 53

Human Rights-

Back 53

Carter’s foreign policy emphasis

Front 54

Panama Canal-

Back 54

Carter turned control of it over to Panama

Front 55

SALT II-

Back 55

Carter’s 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Treaty with USSR

Front 56

Moscow Olympics Boycott-

Back 56

Carter’s 1980 controversial decision due to the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan

Front 57

Mujahideen-

Back 57

Afghan anti-Soviet fighters during the 1980s

Front 58

Camp David Accords-

Back 58

Carter-brokered 1978 Arab-Israeli agreement that Egypt would get back Sinai Peninsula & acknowledge Israel’s right to exist

Front 59

Iranian Hostage Crisis-

Back 59

1979-181 444-day ordeal. Carter allowed ex-shah of Iran to enter US after radical Muslim Ayatollah Khomeini took over & seized US embassy. They were released on 1st day of Reagan’s presidency.

Front 60

Election of 1980-

Back 60

Repub Reagan & Bush defeat Dem Carter & Mondale with his upbeat campaign

Front 61

Reagan Democrats-

Back 61

Traditional dems who voted for Reagan (especially southerners & union workers)