Welcome
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
May 16, 2012
U.S. History
Mr. Green
The students will summarize the 1970s by creating a time line of
major domestic and foreign policy events
Announcement: Quizzes will be used to assess your learning until
the finals
Drill:
1. Define New Federalism on page 786.
2. What effect might New Federalism have on who controls
government programs?
Motivation: What is a political conservative? How would you
define a political conservative?
Agenda/Topics To Be Covered
New Federalism
Distribute a portion of federal power to state and local
governments
revenue sharing
Nixon supported increases in Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid
Used impounding to withhold funds
Nixon went after his enemies
Southern Strategy
Nixon did not support bussing
limited integration
Stagflation-rising inflation and unemployment
OPEC
Nixon used price controls
Foreign Policy
realpolitik-realistic politics
dtente-easing Cold War tensions
China/USSR visits
The Nixon Administration pages 786-792
Nixon relied on 4 advisors
June 17, 1972 at 2:30a.m.
Initiated by CREEP
Nixon became obsessed with event
Not an issue in the 72 election-Nixon re-elected
Trial of the burglary revealed information
Senate investigated in summer of 73
Tape recordings of the Whitehouse
Saturday night massacre
Nixon releases the tapes and resigns on August 8, 1974
Watergate: Nixons Downfall
Ford becomes President when Nixon resigned
Ford pardoned Nixon on Sept 8, 1974
Ford attempts to WHIP inflation now
Carter wins in 1976
focuses on the energy crisis
Iranian hostage crisis and revolution
Bakke decision in 1978 ended racial quotas
Carter focused on Human rights in foreign policy
gave the Panama Canal to Panama
Camp David Accords-Israel and Egypt
The Ford and Carter Years
Rachel Carson writes Silent Spring, attacking the use of
pesticides
government outlawed DDT in 1972
Earth Day
EPA created in 1970
3 Mile Island-1979
Environmental Activism
On page 814, answer questions from each section. You may pick 2
for section 1, pick 1 for section 2, pick 2 for section 3, and you
may pick 1 for section 4.
Independent Work
Summarize the events that led to U.S. escalation in the Vietnam
Conflict
Wrap-Up
1. Read Chapter 23
Homework
