united states v. nixon

The Cover-up

1. Regardless of the outcome, should the President of the United States have a right to privacy in regards to the Oval Office tapes? Explain.
No because those are historical documents in which leaders discuss what to do to the country and how to act and they should be of use to other people so they can review what is said. Also it is the presidents country as much as our own and he does not have the right of privacy to hold the tapes of what to doo to the country.

2. Was President Nixon justified when he fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox? Explain.
No he had no justified reason and just fired him becuase they didn't agree. And Cox would have gotten in his way, he shouldn't have been able to fire Cox.

3. Was Nixon creating a Constitutional crisis by refusing to hand-over the tapes? Explain.
Yes, becuase the country needed to know if he was a liar and if he should be impeached but he was trying to hide it from our country making our country unsafe and unable to trust him.

Closure

4. Why do you think the American public was so outraged by Watergate?
The American public was so outraged by Watergate because it was the first time that a president had a scandal and was untrustworthy.

5. Do you think President Nixon should have resigned? Explain.
Yes I think he should have resigned but right when he noticed that it was all going to unfold when they made the connection of the robbery to him, instead of waiting for it to become worse and worse.

6. Do you think President Nixon should have been prosecuted? Explain.
Yes I also think that he should be prosecuted becuase he was the ultimate leader of the country and he flat out lied to the country about the information on the tapes and something like that shouls be prosecuted for sure.

watergate: nixon's downfall

1. How ere the "plumbers" connected to President Nixon?
the burglars in the CRP scandal.
2. Who was the judge? Why did he hand out maximum sentences?
John Sirica and he did it becuase he wanted lots of evidence.
3. How were Mitchell and Dean connected to Nixon?
Dean was on presidential counsel and Mitchell was the former attorney general and CRP's director.
4. How were Haldeman and Erlichman connected to Nixon?
Halderman was the White house Vhief of staff and Erlichman was the chief domestiv advisor.
5. What did the following men tell the Senate about Nixon?
a. Dean-taht Nixon was deeply involved in the cover-up
b. Butterfield- that Nixon had taped all of their meetings
6. Who was fired or forced to resign in the "massacre"?
Richardson resigned, deputy attorney general was fired, and Cox was fired.
7. Why weren't investigators satisified with the transcripts?
They wanted unedited tapes.
8. What did the tapes reveal?
The tapes had many gaps between Nixon and people that would have been important.
9. Why did Vice President Spiro Agnew resign?
Becuase his president resigned.
10. What did the House Judiciary Committee charge President Nixon with?
obstructyion of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress for refusing to give overt the tapes.
11. How did the Watergate scandal create a constitutional crisis?
this was the first time someone was impeached as a president so they had to judge terms wisely.

women fight for equality

1. Experiences in the workplace- jobs were considered mens work and women were not let to have them, they were also paid less
2. Experiences in social activism-women were agin shut out and started making groups in which they voicd their concerns
3. "Consciousness raising"-sessions with women talking about their lives and being discrimanted becuase they werre women
4. Feminism- belief that women should be equal with men.
5. Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique-authot of the book that was a huge seller that talked about feminism and equality
6. Civil Rights Act of 1964-prohibited discrimination in work based on religion gender or race.
7. National Organization for Women (NOW)- tried to pursure womens goals of equality
8. Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine-made her voice heard about equality and feminism, made magazine to discuss equality topics
9. Congress-passed many acts concerning discrimination, EEOC, Higher Education Act, ERA
11. The Equal rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under the law, regardless of gender. Who opposed this amendment? Why?
Phylis Schafly, anti-feminists and conservative religious groups were against the ERA becuase they thought it owuld lead to drafting women, same sex marriages, men not providing for their family abnd the laws protecting homemakers.

Why did the USA lose the Vietnam War?

Why did the USA lose the Vietnam War?The Americans did not lose purely for military reasons. There were other factors as well.Write an explanation AND cite a source which shows the importance of the following six factors:
1. US military tactics in Vietnam
The US could discifer the Viet Cong so they ended up killing many innocent civilians including women and babies. Also inexperienced soldiers walked into traps. source 44
2. The unpopularity of the South Vietnamese regime
They were unpolular because people thought they were murdereders and hated their tatcics of how they killed innocent civilians. This made many people not wat to join, source 46
3. The experience of the Viet Cong and the inexperience of the American soldiers
The Viet COng and their tactics was enought to defeat the Americans even thought the Americans outnumbered them. source 39
4. Domestic opposition to the war in the U.S.
The domesctic oppostition effected them becuase that was a little less support that they got.
5. Chinese and Soviet support for the Viet Cong
The communists supplied the Viet Cong and they were very close by.
6. 'But did they really lose?' Summarize the argument put forward in Source 57, and your view on it.
I agree that the South Vietnamese lost the war. We left and left the war up to them, who we had just been helping int he beginning and they lost it themsleves. yes, they probbably lost becuase they didn't have our help anymore, but it was not our war it was theirs.

Vietname War Opposition

You are an opponent of American involvement in Vietnam. Use the evidence in this chapter to begin formulating ideas to make a poster or a leaflet putting forward your views. You will work on this in class on Friday. You can include stories and images from pages 353-61. However, you must also include an explanation that will convince the supporters of containment that the policy is not working in Vietnam. OPTIONAL: Instead of opposing the war, you can support it. Feel free to make a COUNTER-ARGUMENT that the war is necessary to contain Communism.
1. Note all of the reasons why you feel the war in Vietnam is wrong.
American soldiers are embarassing our country. They kill innocent civilians, like they were opposed to during World War II and now they are doing it themselves. It is costing our country money to murder innocent civilians. Our soldiers do not know how to handle these tactics.
2. Note what you re trying to achieve with this poster. (e.g. to convince people to write to their Congressmen to get the troops out.)
Trying to achieve that peopel should not support the war and help protest it so Congressmen and the govenment will bring back our troops.
3. List possible images for your poster. Think about: background (e.g. destroyed villages); the central image (e.g. picture of a young soldier); whether you will need words to explain your image.
pictures: American soldiers burning down houses and villages with childrena dn mothers ruinnign and screaming.
backround: sad vietnamese children
4. List some possible slogans for your poster.
Stop the war before we turn communist!
Our soldiers have had enough!

vietnam war turning points

The assignment is due by 3:10 on Wednesday.
1. Why was the Tet Offensive a turning point? Explain your answer.
The Tet Offensive was a turning point because the Americans beat the Viet Cong and wekaened the Viet Cong's forces. When the Viet Cong tried to take over the American embassey the Americans fought room by room. Also the communists did not support the Viet Cong when they needed it.
2. Are Sources 51 and 52 making the same point about the My Lai Massacre?
Source 51 says that the American soldiers didn't go there to kill people and they felt that that was the only reason they were there. Source 52 was saying that they weren't there to kill people they were there to destroy communism and had to ikill people to do that.

3. Why do you think it took 12 months for anyone to do anything about the massacre?
I think it took 12 months for anyone to do anyhting about the massacre because the word hadn't spread and people were to afraid to bring it up in case someone would get mad. The soldiers were also fighting and had to get back before they could tell aNyone. The government wanted to hide the facts so Americans wouldn't be anti war.
4. Why was the massacre so shocking to the American public?
The massacre was shocking because people didn;t think Americans were like that and couldn't beliveve that their soldiers had steeped so low that the country used to be against. Americans had no idea what was happening until this was uincovered.

The U.S. struggles against the Communist in Vietnam

Step 2: Using pages 356-61 in the Vietnam War Reading, make notes in columns 2 (US Army) and 4 (Viet Cong) to record how far each side had each quality.Stage 2: Thinking it throughStep 3: in each row of column 3, draw some scales to show which way the balance falls for this quality. Did the USA or the Viet Cong have the advantage?Now think about the overall picture - how the strengths and weaknesses work together.


1a) Were the armies finely balanced or was the balance strongly weighted to one side or the other?
The armies were finely balanced. As the Viet COng had effective tactics and support from the population, the allies and Soth Vietnamese had more people and technology.
1b) Which quality was most important in determining who won the war? Was one feature so important that being ahead in that area meant that other advantages or disadvantages did not matter?

In determining who won the war effective tactics was the most important quality. The South Vietnamese and its allies outnumbered the Viet Cong greatly, but the Viet Cong had suchgood tatcics that they were able to defend themselves. All of the options matter in the end but not nearly as much as effective tactics.

Stage 3: Explaining your conclusionsThe failure of the U.S. army to beat the Communist in Vietnam was the result of its own weaknesses and Viet Cong strengths.





2. Now write up your answer. Use this structure:


a. The U.S. weaknesses were:
They did not know how to react from the guerilla tactics, and they were not supported by their own country.

b. At the same time, the Communist strengths were:
Effective tactics, underground systems/ booby traps, support from civilians

c. The U.S. forces did have some successes. For example the
La Dreng Valley, Tet Offensive

d. However, there were some major failures as well. Examples of these were:
killing many innocent civilians, no support from civilians, often walked into traps

e. The Viet Cong had some major successes, such as:
underground tunneles, fought enemies off even though they were largely outnumbered

f. However, they also suffered defeats, for example:
Tet Offensive, La Dreng Valley,

g. If I had to identify one major American weakness, it would be not getting support from their country because this really effected the war. Many Americans were against the ar and had learned that AMerican soldiers were killig innocent Vietnamese civilaians and were upset by this. If they had the support from their country then more people would have joined and backed up the war instead of being anti-war.


h. The key Viet Cong strength was guerilla war tactics because the Americans were thrown off by these tactics. they had not been familiar with these tactics and often fell into booby traps and had to fight hard even though they outnumbered the Americans. There tactics also made the Americans look bad in their homelands which was a Viet Cong advantage.