Crash Course - Nixon

The 1964 presidential election was important in American history, precisely because it was so incredibly uncompetitive. Lyndon B. Johnson faced ________

• John F. Kennedy of Ma.

• Richard Nixon of Ca.

• Barry Goldwater of Az.

• Dwight Johnson HI.

Nixon was famous for his ability to sit and wait in poker games. It made him very successful during his tour of duty in the South Pacific, in fact, he earned the nickname_____

• Old Stills

• Old Ironbutt

• Pokerboy

• John

the environmental and saftey movement achieved success with Nixon's programs all of the following EXCEPT

• tThe enactment of the Clean Air Ac

• the Clean Water AcT

• The National Parks System

• the Endangered Species Ac

• National Transportation Safety Board

Under the Conservative Burger Court the case of Roe v. wade

• removed woman's right to have an abortion in the first trimester of her pregnancy as well as a more limited right as the pregnancy progressed

• Allowed for states to determine school districting zones that would move minority children to schools located in predominantly white neighborhoods

• Allowed for individual states to determine the laws that would govern women's access to abortions

• established a woman's right to have an abortion in the first trimester of her pregnancy as well as a more limited right as the pregnancy progressed

in 1972 Title IX was a law passed that...

• banned gender discrimination in higher education.

• Banned abortion rights to women

• Created bussing laws allowing minority children to be bussed into traditionally whites schools

• Allowed women to work in the work place

Daniel Ellsberg leaked the _______ to the New York Times in 1971

• The White Papers

• The Zimmerman documents

• Pentagon papers

• The Plumber Notes

ultimately doomed Nixon was not the break-in itself, but the revelations that he covered it up by authorizing _______________, and also instructing the FBI not to investigate in the crime

• the Bombing of Cambodia and Thailand

• The release of the Pentagon papers

• The supporting the riots at the 68' democratic Election

• hush money payments keep the burglars silent

• Nepotism in the Whitehouse

Watergate was followed by a Senate investigation by the _________, which revealed that Nixon was hardly the first president to have abused his power.

• Hightower committee

• Church Committee

• The Warren Report

• The Committee for the Reelection of the President (C.R.E.E.P.)