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FlashCards por Emily Bevis, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Emily Bevis
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| Questão | Responda |
| Problems facing Ford | - Sworn in aug 1974 after Nixon resignation - Lack of election EVER as not on ticket as VP = opportunity for Demo congress control - aftermath of Watergate = lack of public confidence in US government - Inflation and unemployment rising - Emerging divisive social issues = abortion, women's rights, busing - Wider spectrum of civil rights = hispanics and native Americans also |
| Public reputation of Ford | - reputation for decency and integrity - Effectively risen through Republican ranks - 'man of the people' - BUT aftermath of Watergate :((( - Criticised in media = stupid and clumsy - fell down stairs of Air Force One - any other time = successful image |
| Pardoning Nixon | - 1974 - approval rating fell from 71% to 49% - End trial and prolonged media attention and public discussion - Criminal court = degrade the authority of president office - Resignation = admission of guilt? - 'Jerry the jerk' - 1974 mid-terms bad for Republicans = reflect public disapproval |
| Position of African-americans by 1974 | - 35/40% considered as middle class - Growing political representation - Black Mayors in LA, Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta - 1971 = 31% earning +$10,000 a year - Southern segregation fallen to 8% - BUT teenage unemployment = 50% - White flight and de-facto social and school segregation remained !! - 1/2 of Blacks dropped out of school in NYC - 4x more likely to be murdered |
| Busing | - Move students to other neighbourhoods to encourage greater integration - 1974, NAACP challenge racist language = ruling against unlawful segregation - Ordered busing against de-facto segregation |
| Response to busing | - City authorities = refuse - ROAR = anti-busing campaigners - largely encouraged by Fords personal dislike of busing - Black parents = welcomed white students - White parents = threw things at black students = 9 injured - Continued all year with racist remarks - Many white students took opportunity to boycott school - Ford forced to send troops in 1974 after white student stabbed |
| Social unrest | - very little unrest after success of ending the Vietnam War 1973 - 1974, Clemency = pardon for VW draft dodgers - :( conservatives AND liberals - too much v not enough |
| Positives of women's rights | - more female fill positions of medicine/law - 2/3rds of female college students disagree with idea of role at home - Equal Rights Amendment supported in Congress, 1972 - 1973, Roe v Wade = landmark :))) - 1975, Taylor v Louisiana = ruled unconstitutional to exclude women from Jury pool - Betty Ford = open discussion of pre-marital sex and drug addiction = role model |
| Problems with women's rights | - still only 73% of male salary - remained in low-paying jobs - Phyllis Schlafly = 'Stop ERA' movement in 1972 with southern state support - ERA failure to gain 75% of state support - Ford did little to support :( |
| Fords approach to foreign policy | - Only in office for 2 years = no time for new polices - Continuity from Nixon = :((( - Kissinger still Secretary of State BUT power weakened - William Colby - CIA director = fired after too open during investigation of CIA - Intro Rumsfeld and G.H.W. Bush into foreign team = shape policy in following decade |
| Vietnam | - Ford responsible for humiliating final retreat of US from Vietnam - 1975 = Communist invasion of Saigon despite US $700m aid to South - Helicopters leave US embassy in Saigon with desperate south vietnamese attempt to join evacuation - Big embarrassment |
| Cambodia | - 1975 = Ford ordered marines to retake US cargo ship = SUCCESS - Ship in possession of new Communist leader of Cambodia - Approval rating up - Deaths of 40 soldiers but look strong |
| Vladivostok Summit | Nov 1974 = meeting between Ford and Brezhnev - discuss arms control with USSR = basis of SALT II and less bombers/missiles |
| Helsinki Accords | - 1975 - Meeting between Ford, Brezhnev and EU leader - Closest Europe came to a peace settlement - Western recognise Soviet domination of Eastern Europe - Soviets agreed to human rights provisions - Dismissed by Ford and Kissinger as already outline of current US foreign approach |
| Attitude towards detente | - Conservative call for a tougher approach - associated with disgraced Nixon - Viewed Helsinki as appeasement of USSR - Some thought communists use as opportunity to build nuclear arms and shift influence to Africa - SALT no longer followed by USSR |
| Result of the 1978 election | - Carter won both popular vote = 49.9% and electoral college - Lowest turnout since 1948 = 54% - neither candidate excite the electorate - Still lasting impact of Watergate |
| Republicans during 1976 election | - damaged by watergate - Emergence of conservative outsider - Reagan = brutal campaign - Further destroyed the reputation of the republican party - Ford = humiliated/weak - VP Dole rumors of illegal corporate sponsors in 1973 - Economic problems = remaining oil shortages and double figure inflation |
| Successes of Carters 1976 campaign | - Emphasized weaknesses of republican party after Watergate - Criticised Nixon/republican failed economic policy = double figure inflation - A devout southern Christian = combat previous dixiecrat division - North East focus campaigning - Visited 37 states and made 200 speeches |
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