Class assignment for Monday: (if you can come to class with some of these answered it would be great, otherwise we will cover these in class on Monday)
Ch. 39 Questions
1.) What are two reasons that economy of the 70s became stagnant?
2.) How Johnson did’s ending in Vietnam & his Great Society affect the economy?
3.) Define: “ vietnamization”.
4.) Define: “silent majority”
5.) Describe the My Lai Massacre.
6.) Who is Ho Chi Minh?
7.) Describe the “pentagon papers”.
8.) Define détente.
9.) How were the rulings of Griswold vs. CT and the Miranda case significant?
10.) What was Nixon’s “Philadelphia Plan”?
11.) What standard did Nixon take the country off of?
12.) During the election of 1972 Nixon sought to “_______________Vietnam to the peace table.”
13.) What incident sparked the War Powers Act of 1973? And what are the requirements of this act?
14.) What was the “New Nationalism”?
15.) What caused the fuel crisis of 1973?
16.) Create a flowchart of the Watergate scandal. Include “Sat. Night Massacre”.
17.) What was the ruling of Nixon vs. U.S.?
18.) Who was the first unelected president? Why?
19.) What finally caused US troops to be evacuated from Vietnam?
20.) What is Title IX?
21.) What is Roe vs. Wade?
22.) What was the ERA? Mention Phyllis Schafly.
23.) What court case led to another white flight in the 70s?
24.) How did Carter get elected?
25.) What were the “energy woes” of the 70s caused by according to Carter?
26.) Why did the U.S. Embassy have several people taken hostage in Tehran in 1979? Create a flowchart from beginning to end.
27.) How did Carter respond to the USSR invasion of Afghanistan?
