Chapter 25 -

A Nation Adrift
Chapter 25

I. The Embattled Presidency

 A) Nixon

Watergate affair
VP Agnew resigns
Gerald Ford becomes VP
25th Amendment
 A) Nixon

The Nixon tapes

Resigns August 9, 1974
B) Ford

Unelected president
Granted pardon to Nixon
Politically damaging
B) Ford

Obstacles
Unelected
VP Rockefeller
Critical perceptions
Hostile Congress
 B) Ford

Vetoes and overrides

Fall of Vietnam
II. Domestic
Difficulties
 A) Economy

Oil embargo
OPEC
Energy crisis
Environmental movement
 A) Economy

Stagflation
High unemployment and high inflation
A) Economy
Stagflation causes:
Energy crisis
More money
printed
Gold standard
Trade deficit
 B) Movements

Rights for Indians

Gay rights
Womens rights
 B) Movements

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Didnt get approval of enough states
III. The Ineffectual
Presidency
 A) 1976

President Ford challenged by Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter becomes the Democratic
nominee
 A) 1976

Carter won by narrow margin

 B) Carter

A peoples president
Amnesty
Compulsive worker
 B) Carter

Foreign affairs
1. Human rights
2. Panama Canal Treaty
Narrowly approved
3. Camp David Accords
B) Carter

Foreign affairs
4. Carter Doctrine
5. Iran
Khomeini
Hostage crisis
 B) Carter

Foreign affairs
6. Soviet Union
Detente
SALT II Treaty
Afghanistan
1980 Olympics
 B) Carter

Domestic problems
Unemployment
Inflation soared
Carters popularity dropped
IV. The Rising Conservative Tide
A) The Right

Conservatives
Positions held
New Right
Roe decision
Other causes
A) The Right
Religious Right
Charismatic
movement
Pat Robertson
Jerry Falwell
Concerns with
religious
freedoms
 B) 1980 Election

Reagan easily won Republican nomination

Carters problems
Edward Kennedy
John Anderson
 B) 1980 Election

Hostage crisis
Economy weak
Inflation
Are you better off than you were...?
Reagan wins in landslide
 C) Reagan

Reagan Revolution
Assassination attempt
Reaganomics
Supply-side
 C) Reagan

Tax cuts
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
Modest budget cuts
Defense spending increased
 C) Reagan
National debt
Continued to grow
Gramm-Rudman Act
 C) Reagan

Recession lasted until 1983

Lengthy period of prosperity began
 C) Reagan

Reagan Doctrine
America would support groups battling
Communist governments in the Third World
C) Reagan

Central America
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Contras
Grenada
 C) Reagan

Angola
Afghanistan
Mujahideen
Terrorism
Lebanon
Achille Lauro
 1. 1984

Democrats nominated Walter Mondale

Geraldine Ferraro
Reagan won 49 states
C) Reagan

Soviet relations
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika
Glasnost
C) Reagan

Soviet relations
START
INF Treaty
SDI
 C) Reagan

Iran-Contra
What happened
Investigations
THE END!