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XXXXII: The Stalemated Seventies
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What was "stagflation"? What caused it? Why did it end? | |
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What was Nixon's "secret plan" for getting the United States out of the war in Vietnam? Why did so many people find fault with it? | |
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Why did the shooting at Kent State happen? | |
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What did Nixon's diplomatic relations with China and the U.S.S.R. have to do with Vietnam? | |
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How did the Warren Court antagonize conservatives? What did Nixon do about it? | |
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Why did Nixon win such and easy victory in 1972? What did Dwight Chapin and Daniel Segretti have to with it? What about John Ehrlichman and Bob Woodward get involved? |
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What was the Watergate scandal all about? Actually, a good answer to #6 answers this one too! | |
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How did American support for Israel have a near disastrous effect on the American economy of the 1970's? | |
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If Nixon claimed he was innocent of all wrongdoing, why did he resign in 1974? | |
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What effects did the Nixon presidency have on the attitude of the American people towards its government? To what ends? | |
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Why do some people continue to "apologize" for Nixon while other "hate" him? | |
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What was the most controversial act of the Ford administration? Why did the President take such an action? What did it result in for him? | |
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What was W.I.N.? Why didn't it work? | |
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Why did Carter's "humanitarian diplomacy" not work out very well in most cases? | |
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How did Carter try to get the American economy moving again? To what ends? | |
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Why did Iranian students capture the American Embassy? Why did this have such a powerful effect on the Carter presidency? | |
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Napalm | |
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Curtis LeMay | |
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Hanoi Hilton | |
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Hanoi Jane | |
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Daniel Ellsberg | |
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War Powers Act | |
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Henry Kiisinger | |
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John Mitchell | |
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G. Gordon Liddy | |
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White house Plumbers | |
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Roe V. Wade | |
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Title Nine of the Civil Rights Act of 1970 | |
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OPEC | |
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Maurice Stans | |
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Reza Pahlavi | |
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Leonid Brezhnev | |
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Détente | |
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Mayaguez | |
