Transcript Richard Nixon - Johnston County Schools

Richard Nixon
New Federalism
• Nixon’s program to turn over part of
the federal government’s power to
state and local governments
Swann vs. CharlotteMecklenburg BOE
• Supreme Court Ruling that said school
districts may bus students to other
schools to end the pattern of all-black or
all-white educational institutions
Energy Crisis
• OPEC Members protest U.S.
support of Israel in the Yom Kippur
War
• OPEC cuts off oil supply to U.S.
causing an oil shortage in the U.S.
Detente
• Nixon’s flexible foreign policy to
deal with communist nations
• Developed as a way to ease
tensions by showing a willingness
to negotiate with communist
nations
Realpolitik
• Considered a nations power rather
than its ideals or moral principles
when dealing in foreign matters
Nixon Visits China and USSR
1972
• Nixon becomes the first President to
visit China since the communist
takeover in 1949
• Nixon becomes the first President to
visit the Soviet Union since Teddy
Roosevelt
SALT I
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
• Signed between the U.S. and
Soviet Union
• Example of successful use of
détente policy
Committee to Reelect the
President
• An organization formed to run
Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign
• Linked to Watergate
Woodward and Bernstein
• Washington Post reporters who
uncovered numerous links to
members of Nixon’s administration
to the Watergate burglary
Watergate Scandal
• Scandal arises from Nixon’s
administrations attempt to cover up
the burglary at Watergate
• The scandal showed that the
knowledge of the burglary and the
cover-up stretched all the way to
Nixon himself
Nixon Resigns
• August 9, 1974, amid scandal and
impeachment hearings for his role
in trying to cover-up the Watergate
break-in, Nixon resigns as
President
• Becomes the first President to
resign from office