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USH Chapter 32
USH Chapter 32 - An age of limits
Question | Answer |
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President elected in 1968 | Richard M. Nixon |
Nixon's plan to take power away from Federal Govt and give some of it to the states and local govts | New Federalism |
Nixon's plan to NOT tell state and local govts how to spend their Federal money | Revenue Sharing |
Nixon's plan to restructure Welfare (defeated) | Family Assistance Plan |
Nixon's plan to get support from conservative Democrats | Southern Strategy |
Economic problem faced by Nixon administration | Stagflation |
What is Stagflation? | Rising prices (inflation), with high unemployment |
Oil Cartel | OPEC |
What OPEC stands for | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
Nixon's advisor for national security affairs | Henry Kissinger |
Kissinger's philosophy of dealing with countries on a flexible basis | Realpolitik |
Policy used by Nixon/Kissinger which eased cold war tensions | Detente (with sqiggly above the "e") |
Agreement reached by Nixon and Soviet Union about ICBM's and submarine missles | SALT I Treaty |
Where the Democratic National Committe was burglarized | Watergate Hotel (in DC) |
Nixon's Chief of Staff | H.R. Haldeman |
Nixon's Attorney General | John Mitchell |
Group that was lead by the guy who led the burglary of the DNC | Committee to Reelect the President |
Judge that heard the Watergate burglar's trial | Judge John Sirica |
What the firings of Attorney General Richardson (and his deputy) was called | Saturday Night Massacre |
Nixon's first VP | Spiro Agnew |
Nixon's second VP | Gerald Ford |
President that succeeded Nixon | Gerald Ford |
Ford's plan to eliminate inflation | WIN (whip Inflation Now) |
President elected in 1976 | Jimmy Carter |
Tell a few things about Jimmy Carter | Peanut farmer from Georgia... down to earth, Washington outsider |
Legislation that tried to address the energy crisis | National Energy Act |
Carter's main focus in foreign policy - he looked at each country's treatment of what ? | Human Rights |
Two agreements reached by Carter, Egypt, and Israel | Camp David Accords |
Muslim religious leader that took over Iran in 1979 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |