4/27/2023 0 Comments Chapter 39 coursenotes![]() Air Force had secretly induced some 3,500 bombing raids against North Vietnam In July America was shocked to learn that the U.S. The Secret Bombing of Cambodia and the Wars Power Act The Democratic candidate was George McGovern Warned about inflation, Nixon imposed a 90-day wage and price freeze, took the nation off the gold standard and devalued the dollar The EPA stood on the front line of the battle for ecological sanity ![]() Clean Air Act of 1970 and Endangered Species Act of 1973 passed. Cities protested these actions as “reverse discrimination”Įnvironmental Protection Agency created in 1970 The actions of Nixon and the court opened employment and educational opportunities for minorities and women He also implemented the Philadelphia Plan requiring goals and time-tables for hiring blacks Surprisingly, Nixon presided over expansion of welfare programs like food stamps and medicade President Nixon sought appointees who would strictly interpret the constitution, cease “meddling” in social and political questions and not coddle radicals or criminals Public schools could not require prayer or bible readingįrom 1954 on, the court came under relentless criticism Conservatives also objected to the court’s views on religion Several court rulings sought to prevent abusive police tactics but appealed to conservatives to coddle criminals and subvert law and order Nixon’s diplomacy ceased the Cold War but was still anti-communist band the USSR started to slow the armistice and agreed to a series of arms-reduction negotiations i. Then he went to Moscow in May and ushered an era of détente or relaxed tension with the two communist powers Nixon visited communist China in February 1972 ii. Nixon hoped to enlist the aid of the Soviet Union and China in pressuring North Vietnam into peace. Nixon’s Détente with Beijing (Peking) and Moscow To pacify America’s youth they shortened the dilatability period and lowered the voting age to eighteen. The Senate repealed the Gulf of Tonkin blank check But still deepened the bitterness between the right wing and left wing groups This caused protests, Nixon withdrew the troops after only two months On ApNixon ordered American forces to join with the South Vietnamese in cleaning out enemy sanctuaries in officially neutral Cambodia War had become grotesquely unpopular, even among troops in the field Nixon sought to end the war without further spilling of American blood would honor its existing defense commitments that in the future, Asians and others would have to fight their own wars without the support of large bodies of American ground troops Vietnamization policy was announced-it would withdraw the 540,000 U.S. He could be brittle and testy in the face of opposition yet his broad knowledge and thoughtful expertise in foreign affairs was valuable. Sudden slump in productivity was attributed to the increasing presence in the work force of women and teenagers who had fewer skills than adult males and were less likely to take full time, long-term jobs-some blamed it on new machinery but no one knows for sure.ĭuring Nixon’s presidency, Americans experienced the first serious inflation since the immediate post World War II years.
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