Despite a large lead after the chaos at the democratic national convention in 1968, nixon won his presidential election by only a razor-thin margin in the popular vote. identify his efforts to win over moderates in the first year of his term in office.

Explanation:

• Nixon was a hawk on the Vietnam War but ran on the slogans "peace with honor" and "law and order"

• Peace with honor meant he would end the war in a way that wouldn't be an embarrassment to the US.

• Law and order was trying to capitalize on discontent over anti-war protests, assassinations, and the civil rights movement.

• Right prior to the election, LBJ learned that Nixon had been secretly sabotaging the peace talks in Vietnam, so the Democrats wouldn't be able to run on a victory in Vietnam.

• LBJ chose not to make this public, believing that Humphrey was going to win anyway.

• Nixon defeated Humphrey by a very close popular vote.

• Nixon appealed to what he claimed was the "silent majority" (socially conservative Americans who disliked the "hippie" counterculture and civil rights/anti-war demonstrators)

• Nixon also appealed to those who thought he would end the war. Many believed he had a "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War.

• Nixon announced that he would gradually withdraw US troops from Vietnam and give the South Vietnamese the money, weapons, and training they needed to take over the full conduct of the war.

• He termed this Vietnamization.

• Under Nixon, US troops dropped from over half a million in 1969, to under 30,000 in 1972.

the years following the end of world war i were a period of deep social tensions, aggrevated by high wartime inflation. food prices more than doubled between 1915 and 1920; clothing costs more than tripled. a steel strike that began in chicago in 1919 became much more than a simple dispute between labor and management. the steel strike of 1919 became the focal point for profound social anxieties, especially fears of bolshevism.

organized labor had grown in strength during the course of the war. many unions won recognition and the 12-hour workday was abolished. an 8-hour days was instituted on war contract work and by 1919, half the country's workers had a 48-hour work week.

the war's end, however, was accompanied by labor turmoil, as labor demanded union recognition, shorter hours, and raises exceeding the inflation rate. over 4 million workers--one fifth of the nation's workforce--participated in strikes in 1919, including 365,000 steelworkers and 400,000 miners. the number of striking workers would not be matched until the depression year of 1937.

the year began with a general strike in seattle. police offers in boston went on strike, touching off several days of rioting and crime. but the most tumultuous strike took place in the steel industry. then some 350,000 steelworkers in 24 separate craft union went on strike as part of a drive by the american federation of labor to unionize the industry. from management's perspective, the steel strike represented the handiwork of radicals and professional labor agitators. the steel industry's leaders regarded the strike as a radical conspiracy to get the company to pay a 12-hour wage for eight hours' work. at a time when communists were seizing power in hungary and were staging a revolt in germany, and workers in italy were seizing factories, some industrialists feared that the steel strike was the first step toward overturning the industrial system.

the strike ended with the complete defeat of the unions. from labor's perspective, the corporations had triumphed through espionage, blacklists, and the denial of freedom of speech and assembly and through the complete unwillingness to recognize the right of collective bargaining with the workers' representatives.

during the 1920s, many of labor's gains during world war i and the progressive era were rolled back. membership in labor unions fell from 5 million to 3 million. the us supreme court outlawed picketing, overturned national child labor laws, and abolished minimum wage laws for women.

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