Name
Date
AP US History II period
Mrs. Hornstein
The Imperial Presidency
Election of 1968
Presidential
Candidate
Vice Presidential Political
Candidate
Party
Richard Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Popular Vote
Electoral Vote
Republican
31,783,783 43.42%
301
55.9%
Hubert Humphrey Edmund Muskie Democratic
31,271,839 42.72%
191
35.5%
46
8.6%
0
0.0%
George Wallace
Curtis LeMay
American Ind. 9,901,118 13.53%
Other (+)
-
Map Key
243,258 0.33%
Turnout
> 30%
> 40%
> 50%
> 60%
> 80%
1. What was the goal of détente?
2. What were the effects of détente on the U. S. dealings with communist countries? on the
American public?
3. Identify President Nixon's most important foreign policy achievements.
4. Why could only Nixon "go to China?"
5. What was the thrust of the Nixon Doctrine? What were its implications on Chile?
6. What dilemma of American Middle East policy did the Yom Kippur War make clear?
What other lessons did the war teach?
7. To what constituency was Nixon trying to appeal with his attacks on liberal programs?
8. Why did President Nixon appoint Warren Burger to the Supreme Court?
9. What advantages did Nixon have going into the 1972 election? What were George
McGovern's liabilities?
Presidential
Candidate
Vice Presidential Political
Candidate
Party
Richard Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Popular Vote
Electoral Vote
Republican 47,168,710 60.67%
520
96.7%
George McGovern R. Sargent Shriver Democratic 29,173,222 37.52%
17
3.2%
3,674 0.00%
1
0.2%
1,100,868 1.42%
0
0.0%
297,553 0.38%
0
0.0%
John Hospers
Theodora Nathan Libertarian
John Schmitz
Thomas Anderson American
Other (+)
-
Map Key
> 40%
> 50%
> 60%
> 70%
Turnout
10. What were the proximate and fundamental causes of the creeping inflation of the late
1960s and 1970s?
11. Describe the general outlines of Nixon's economic policy. How effective was it?
12. How did Nixon change the federal-state relations?
13. Why did President Nixon's own personality contribute to his downfall?
14. Why did Vice President Agnew resign? How did his removal and the appointment of
Gerald Ford as Vice President actually increase the pressure on Nixon?