HIST 1200 Lecture Notes - Watergate Complex, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship, Paradigm Shift
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[big concept: stagflation high unemployment and high inflation (i think)] Conservatism and constitutional crisis: emergence of a grassroots movement: Goldwater in 1964 appeared to signify the triumph of liberalism, the results actually concealed a growing grassroots conservation movement: nixon and conservatives: himself with those who feared the changing roles of minorities in society. Nixon was able to appease conservatives by aligning: election of 1972: Nominee george s. mcgovern in a landslide because republicans were able to paint mcgovern as a leftist extremist at his positions on busing, welfare, and vietnam were too radical for moderates: watergate: On june 17, 1972, 5 men working for nixon"s reelection campaign were arrested breaking into democratic party headquarters at the watergate complex to repair a bugging device that they had previously planted. Americans learned that nixon and his associates had engaged in a host of abuses. To avoid impeachment, nixon announced his resignation to a national television audience on august 8, 1974.
