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Chapter 25
Nixon, Ford, and Carter Years
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Richard Nixon | 37th president, known for his foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and China for illegal acts he committed in the Watergate affair that forced his resignation. |
| Law and Order | (blank) |
| Detente | A relaxation in political tensions between nations. |
| China | President went here to talk and resolve issues which ended out well and Americans looked as this as one of his successes. |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese leader who had led the revolution in 1949. |
| SALT I | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty- 1972 agreement between the US and the Soviet Union on limiting nuclear weapons. |
| Watergate | Scandal involving illegal activities that led ultimately to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. |
| Democratic National Committee | (blank) |
| CREEP | (blank) |
| Saturday Night Massacre | When Nixon fired Archibald Cox. |
| Archibald Cox | A Harvard professor who was fired by Nixon because he asked Nixon for the tapes. |
| Gerald Ford | 38th president, succeeded and pardoned Nixon; failed to establish strong leadership. |
| 25th Amendment | (blank) |
| Stagflation | Combination of high inflation and high unemployment, with no economic growth. |
| Jimmy Carter | 39th president, advocated concern for human rights in foreign policy; assisted in mediating the Camp David Accords |
| Energy Crisis | Carter proposed a new idea to conserve energy and to save oil, use solar energy, cut taxes. |
| Three Mile Island | Where something happened with a nuclear power plant. |
| Camp David Accords | 1978 agreement between Israel and Egypt that made a peace treaty between the two nations possible. |
| Egypt | Involved with the Camp David Accords. |
| Israel | Involved with the Camp David Accords. |
| Shah of Iran | Came to America when he was on trial in Iran. |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | When Iranians kept hostage American students because they let the Shah of Iran into America when he was on trial in Iran. |
| Afganistan | A country in which the Soviet Union invaded. |
| 1980 Moscow Olympics | Carter imposed a boycott on this, and 60 other nations joined the olympic boycott and detente was effectively dead because of this. |
| SALT II | More complicated than SALT I, this agreement limited the number of nuclear warheads and missiles held by each superpower. |
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