Download Richard Nixon

Nixon and Vietnam
• Henry KissingerNixon’s National
Security advisor
• Vietnamization: Gradual
withdraw of U.S. troops
= increased efforts of
the South Vietnamese
to fight the war.
• Continued to bomb
N.Vietnam as well as
Laos & Cambodia
Nixon & Foreign Policy
• New FederalismDistribute a portion
of Fed. power to
state and local Gov.
• Détente: easing
Cold War tensions
• Nixon opened
foreign policy with
China and Soviet
Union by visiting
them
Nixon’s Southern Strategy
• Tried to appeal to
Southern Democrats
who were unhappy
w/federal desegregation
and liberal Supreme
Court
• Tried to slow down
school deseg., voting
rights and school
busing
– Shot down by Congress /
Supreme Court
Nixon
• “Silent Majority:”
middle class Americans
who wanted order
restored in the U.S.
– Wiretapping of Dem.
party officials and Dem.
party headquarters at the
Watergate office building
in D.C.
• Tax audits of antiwar
and civil rights
activists.
Watergate: The President’s Men
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H.R. Haldeman: Chief of Staff
John Ehrlichman: Chief Domestic Adv.
John Mitchell: Attorney General
John W. Dean III: Presidential Counsel
Watergate
• Spying on the
Democratic National
Party
• Cover-up in destroying
all evidence of the
break-in
• Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein of the
Washington Post
– Received little American
interest.
Watergate
• Senate investigation
• Nixon dismissed his
“inner circle”
• John Dean testified that
Nixon was “heavily
involved in the coverup”
• Presidential aide
Alexander Butterfield:
Nixon taped all
conversations
– Tapes were key in
revealing what Nixon
actually knew
Watergate
• Vice President Spiro
Agnew resigned
– Nixon appointed House
Minority Leader Gerald
Ford as the V.P.
• House Judiciary
Committee began
looking into
impeachment
• Nixon agreed to
release “edited tapes”
– Court wanted unedited
tapes = Nixon refused
– Court had enough
evidence for
impeachment
• Tapes finally released
on Aug. 5, 1974 / resigned
Aug. 8th
Gerald Ford
• President Nixon
resigned, then Vice
President Spirow
Agnew resigned.
• Pardoned Nixon: cost
him public support
• Continued discussions
with the Soviet Union
• South Vietnam
surrendered to the
North in 1975
• Communist take-over of
Cambodia
Jimmy Carter
• Camp David AccordsIsrael/Egypt
– Carter calmed the tension
between Egypt & Israel.
Won Nobel Peace Prize.
• Ayatollah Khomeini
– Muslim leader in Iran that
led rebels to overthrow the
shah, & follow strict
obedience of Qur’anIslam’s holy book.
• Iran Hostage Crisis
– Proved that Carter didn’t
have enough experience in
dealing with foreign policy.
Ronald Reagan
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FDR was Reagan’s idol
– Reagan reduced welfare,
fought affirmative action
programs.
Big government was bad.
Military = good
Purpose of foreign policy =
defeat communism
Slash taxes
$$ to freedom fighters in 3rd
world countries fighting
communism
41% increase in defense
spending
Pledged to build 17,000 new
nukes
Reagan: Iran Contra
• Spring 1985
• Israel give Iran
American weapons
in exchange for
American hostages
in Lebanon
– U.S. would then
resupply Israel
– ***Trading weapons
for hostages
• NSC Staffer: Oliver
North
Russian Relations
• Mikhail Gorbachev: Soviet
President
– Wanted to greatly
improve Soviet relations
w/the rest of the world
– Transform the economy
• INF Treaty: Agreement that
the U.S. and Soviets would
destroy 4% of their nuclear
arsenal
– 1st time ever that a treaty of this
magnitude has been put into
place
– Allowed monitoring of the
destruction of the nukes
• Not a Reagan victory but a
gift by Gorbachev
Ronald Reagan
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Reanganomics- strategy to give
federal money to big business
in hopes that it would trickle
down to society.
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star
Wars)- a strategy Reagan
wanted to develop to keep
Americans safe from enemy
missiles.
Sandra Day O’Connor- first
woman appointed into Supreme
Court.
Mikhail Gorbachev- Gen.
Secretary of Communist Party
in S.U.
– Glasnost- Openness
– Perestrokia- gov. restructuring
1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey
Team
George H. Bush
• Bush built on Reagan’s
legacy and promised
“Read my lips: no new
taxes” in his
acceptance speech at
the Republican
Convention.
• Saddam Hussein- Iraqi
dictator
• Norman Schwarzkopfcommander in chief
during Desert Storms.
Bill Clinton
• Health Care Reform:
Hillary Clinton
• Reduced Federal deficit
– Why? = booming
economy
• Reformed welfare
• Impeached but served
the rest of his term.
• NAFTA
• Internet
• Contract w/America
“Rocky IV” Questions
1) How is Apollo symbolic of the U.S. after WWII?
2) Apollo’s death is a representation of what?
3) How is Drago’s training a representation of the
advancement in Soviet technology? Rocky’s
training is an example that in order for the U.S. to
overcome the Soviet Union, what did we have to
do?
4) How is the size/age of Rocky and size / age of
Drago a representation of the U.S. and Soviet
Union?