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Chapter 39B: Ford and Carter
(pages 952-965)
1) What was the reaction to President Ford’s “pardon” of President Nixon?
2) Was this pardon even conventional? Explain.
3) What are the Helsinki Accords (they are still in effect).
4) What actions on the part of the Soviets were undermining detente?
5) What was the
price to the
6) What else had this war cost the country?
7) Explain the cartoon at the bottom of 953.
8) Explain Title IX (9).
9) Explain the two
cases at the bottom on page 956 - Reed v Reed and Frontiero v.
10) What rights did Roe v. Wade codify?
11) Explain why the Equal Rights Amendment (the ERA) didn’t become an amendment.
12) Explain the Milliken v. Bradley case.
13) What movement did this decision enhance? Explain why.
14) Explain the decision and impact of the Bakke case.
15) What were President Carter’s weaknesses upon election?
16) Describe what was
accomplished at
17) What happened to
the
18) What drove a shift to learning about foreign cultures and languages in the late 1970s? Do you think that this is a good reason? Explain.
19) Explain what
happened in
20) Describe the SALT II agreements signed into law June 1979.
21) What happened to
the agreement in the Senate? Skip to the
bottom of 964 - what happened after
the Soviet invasion of
22) Return to page 963. Explain how the Iran Hostage Crisis began.
23) Then go to the bottom of page 964. How did President Carter attempt to deal with the crisis? How successful was he?