Unit 6, Chapter 38

Question 1

Watergate

Answer 1

-series of scandals that resulted in President Nixon’s resignation amid calls from his impeachment

Question 2

Smoking gun tape

Answer 2

• Recording made in the oval office that prove conclusively that Nixon knew about Watergate break up and endeavored to cover it up
• lead to a complete breakdown in congressional support for nixon after the Supreme Court ordered he handed the tape to investigators

Question 3

Equal rights amendment (ERA)

Answer 3

• declared full constitutional equality for women

- failed to become a part of the constitution

Question 4

Roe vs wade (1973)

Answer 4

• landmark Supreme Court decision that forbade states from barring abortion by citing a woman’s constitutional right to privacy
• The decision provoked a strong counterreaction my opponents to abortion, galvanizing the pro-life movement

Question 5

New right

Answer 5

• term for a loose network of conservative political activists and organizations that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s
• emphasize cultural issues like abortion, bussing, and prayer in school

Question 6

Malaise speech (1979)

Answer 6

• National address by Jimmy Carter in which he chided American materialism and urged a communal spirits in the face of economic hardships
• widely perceived as a political disaster for the embattled president

Question 7

SALT II

Answer 7

-strategic arms limitation treaty agreement between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev American President Jimmy Carter

Question 8

Iranian hostage crisis (1979-1981)

Answer 8

• 444 days in which American Embassy workers were held captive by Iranian revolutionaries
• began when revolutionaries stormed the American Embassy, demanding that the US return the shah to Iran for trial

Question 9

Stagflation

Answer 9

• term referring to the simultaneous occurrence of low employment growth and high inflation in national economy
• characterized the economic troubles in the 1970s
• past and intellectual challenge to economics and a policy making a challenge to government officials