Nixon The Watergate Affair and its aftermath A LEVEL HISTORY Exam Questions and Answers
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what was the Watergate Hotel the location of? - Answer-the Democratic Party's Washington DC offices where the party was preparing for the 1972 presidential election.
When were the burgulars found inside the Democratic Party's offices? - Answer-17th June 1972 at 2:30am
How many burglars were f...
Nixon The Watergate Affair and its
aftermath A LEVEL HISTORY Exam
Questions and Answers
what was the Watergate Hotel the location of? - Answer-the Democratic Party's
Washington DC offices where the party was preparing for the 1972 presidential election.
When were the burgulars found inside the Democratic Party's offices? - Answer-17th
June 1972 at 2:30am
How many burglars were found? - Answer-5
Who was J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)? - Answer-the Director of the FBI from 1935
until his death at age 77. he was fiercely anti-communist and both Truman and JFK
considered dismissing him. LBJ changed the federal retirement age to allow Hoover to
continue as Director of the FBI until his death.
why was Nixon paranoid about his secrets being revealed? - Answer-A year earlier
(1971), the Pentagon Papers were released which revealed secrets of Johnson and
Kennedy's administrations.
what were the Pentagon Papers? - Answer-A secret government study leaked to and
published by the New York Times in June 1971 (revealing that American leaders had
often misled Congress and the American people as they escalated the Vietnam War).
what did Nixon call the investigative team that he set up and why? - Answer-'The
Plumbers' because their role was to fix leaks (of Nixon's secrets)
what was the first job of 'The Plumbers'? - Answer-to carry out a smear campaign
against Ellsberg (who had previously released the Pentagon Papers).
what is a smear campaign? - Answer-an orchestrated effort to discredit someone or an
organisation by questioning their morality, sanity, behaviour or attitudes by exposing
their private activities to the press.
what and when were the 5 burgulars charged with? - Answer-on 15th September, the 5
men were indicted for conspiracy, burglary, violation of federal wiretapping laws.
$500,000 in funds from the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP) were used to
pay the legal expenses.
who won the 1972 election and what kind of a victory was it? - Answer-Nixon won the
1972 election by a landslide victory
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