Chapter 26: The Triumph of Conservatism (1969-1988)

What did events surrounding the Watergate break-in and cover-up suggest about Richard Nixon?

Nixon was willing to condone illegal activity to silence political enemies

What led to the congressional discovery that the FBI had spied on millions of Americans in the 1960s?

The Church Committee Investigations

The "Second Gilded Age" could describe the 1980s as what?

decade where making deals was more profitable than making products

What were the results of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia in 1970?

destabilized Cambodian govt. and set into action the chain of events that brought power to Khmer Rouge

The election of 1980 reflected?

growing frustration over America's condition.

President Carter's foreign policy was marked by a commitment to

human rights

Mikhail Gorbachev did what in the Soviet Union?

inaugurated political openness and economic reform in the Soviet Union

In foreign policy, Reagan initiated what in regards to military?

initiated the largest military buildup in U.S. history

The handling of the Iranian hostage crisis appear to look how?

made Carter administration look weak and inept

Richard Nixon's New Federalism what?

offered "block grants" to states to spend as they saw fit, established OSHA, EPA, etc.

The Equal Rights Amendment did what

offered a guarantee of women's freedom in public sphere but it didn't pass

Nixon's Family Assistance Plan

proposed to guarantee a minimum income for all Americans.

During the 1970s, evangelical Christians:

significantly increased in number, as they became more vocal.

Under the Nixon administration, the United States continued to

undermine governments deemed dangerous to American strategic or economic interests