American History- Key topic 2- part 4

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What happened at the 1968 Democrat National Convention?
around 30,000 new left member arrived in Chicago stating they were going to put LSD in the water supply, 12,000 police that banned marches, Hippies produced a candidate for presidency which was a squealing pig,Media showed students having sex,violenc
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When did Nixon have his acceptence speech?
Nixon accepted his Republican nomination for president and referred to “the silent majority” who grew due to unhappiness of riots and events of 1968
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What was middle America?
feared counter culture, and worried about role models such as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix who all died of overdoses in 1970-71
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How many bombs were there in 1969?
1969-70= over 2000 bombings/attempted bodies, 56% by students, 19% by black activists
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Who was George McGovern?
Democratic party's candidate for presidency= he wanted to legalise abortion and marijuana and give $1000 to every American to decrease poverty, he was known as the 3 A's
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What did polls show about black and student protestors?
polls showed that 84% thought student and black protestors were treated too leniently
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What strikes occured when Nixon extended bombing?
Nixon extended bombing to a communist supply trail in Cambodia and protests erupted in 80% of uni in 1970,Kent Students rioted in the central building district, police killed 4 and wounded 12
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What did Nixon do for the environment?
In Nixon's first term he said “people don't give a **** about the environment” but he introduced the endangered species act (1969), clean air act (1970 and established the environmental protection agency in 1970 and created 642 new parks
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what were the supreme court rulings of 1971 and 1973?
supported bussing of students from one neighbourhood to another for school but Nixon saw this as “wrenching children from their families”, Nixon ended bussing after appointment of conservative supreme court justices
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What did Nixon want to do to GS programmes?
Nixon said he wanted to save taxpayers money by eliminating the more inefficent GS programmes
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Did spending increase under Nixon?
Number of Americans receiving aid for dependent children rose from 3 million in 1960 to 8.4 million in 1970, he spent more than Johnson
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What was TV like in the 60's?
Green Berets (1968) supported war, MASH (1970) was critical of the vietnam war, Sound of music (1965), easy rider (1969)- embraced the counter culture, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice 1965) traced sexual liberalisation in LA
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What was the Tet offensive?
media coverage showed communists overunning the vietnamese capital and Walter Cronkite said “what the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war”
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What was the May-lai massacre?
47 unarmed vietnamese civilains were beaten up and killed by American soldiers, the army wanted to cover this up but Seymour Hersh exposure of this was picked up by newspapers in 1969
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What was the pentagon papers?
New York Times published the pentagon papers, leaked defence department documentd that revealed American leaders misleading congress and public over escalation of US involvement in the war
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