USA 1968-2012: Opportunity and Challenge — Flashcards

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It means a period when presidential power became very concentrated in the hands of the president and his close aides. Under Nixon, the White House gained exceptional power, but this also encouraged se…

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Three important factors helped his rise: military service, the Cold War climate, and the Alger Hiss case. Alger Hiss was accused in 1948 of passing sensitive material to the Russians, and that trial b…

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The Eisenhower-Nixon ticket won all but nine states in 1952. This strong victory gave Nixon valuable national experience as Vice President and helped build his political reputation.

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Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not stand for re-election, which opened the race. Nixon won 301 electoral votes to Humphrey's 191, and both candidates received over 31 million popular vo…

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Robert Kennedy won the California primary in June 1968 but was assassinated the same day by Sirhan Sirhan. George Wallace also ran on a pro-segregation American Independent Party ticket. These events …

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The busing programme was a policy for racial desegregation in schools. Pupils were moved from neighbourhood schools to schools in other areas to achieve a racial balance. It became a major issue in th…

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It was a Supreme Court ruling against Nixon's delay of school desegregation. The decision pushed school systems to move faster and showed that judicial authority could override presidential attempts t…

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Nixon personally opposed busing and wrote that 'segregated white education is probably superior to education in which there is too great a degree of integration of inferior black students with the whi…