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US His 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nixon's name for middle Americans | Silent majority |
| Reason Nixon tried to place conservative judges on the federal courts | Southern strategy |
| Period of a stagnating economy and inflation | Stagflation |
| Plan to help African Americans overcome past discrimination | Affirmative action |
| Principle that the Pres. has the right to keep certain information to himself | Executive privilege |
| Group that placed an oil embargo on the United States | OPEC |
| Which Pres. believed that the people had tired of the "big government" of Johnson's Great Society? | Richard Nixon |
| Nixon's "New Federalism" | Federal money was given to states to fund social programs |
| Blue collar workers and southern whites | Groups targeted by Nixon during his presidency to expand his base of supporters |
| United States v. Nixon | Tape recordings of conversations in the Oval Office had to be turned over for review |
| Pres. Gerald Ford developed this plan to combat inflation? | WIN |
| Served as governor of Georgia before becoming Pres. of US | Jimmy Carter |
| The support of this group helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 election. | Christian fundamentalists |
| Anmesty | The granting of forgiveness to draft dodgers |
| Preached to millions of TV viewers during the 70's | Televangelists |
| Who granted Richard Nixon a pardon for his wrong doings while Pres. of the US | Pres. Gerald Ford |
| Gerald Ford faced these issues when he became Pres. | High inflation, skyrocketing prices, rising unemployment |
| Jimmy Carter's response to the nation's oil crisis | Ask people to conserve oil |
| How did the population of the US change during the 70's? | Immigrants form Latin American and Asia arrived |
| Basic rights every human being is entitled to have | Human rights |
| Why did religious conservatives oppose the Supreme Court ruling in Row V. Wade | Legalized abortion |
| Agreement between US an Soviets where they agreed to limit arms production | SALT II |
| Refugees who leave their country by boat | Boat people |
| Poor nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America | Developing world |
| Agreement between Egypt Pres. Anwar el-Sadat and Isreali prime minister Menochem Begin where Egypt formally recognized Isreal | Camp David Accords |
| 1975-US, Canada,European nations, and the Soviet Union agreed to support human rights | Helsinki Accords |
| Central concern of Pres. Carter's foreign policy | Expanding human rights in developing countries |
| Carter's greats foreign policy achievement | The agreement between Egypt and Israel that occurred at Camp David |
| Iran hostage crisis | Iranian radical students invaded US Embassy in Iran, took 66 Americans hostage because Pres. Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to enter the US for treatment of cancer. |
| Focus of Ford's policy/goal toward the Soviet Union | Pursue detente |
| Scandal that lead to Nixon's resignation | Watergate |
| Gerald Ford | Became Pres. when Nixon resigned |
| To officially forgive | Pardon |
| Jimmy Carter | Elected Pres. with the support of many Christian fundamentalists-cast him self as a fresh face |
| Lead a group of fundamentalist Islamic clerics who took power in Iran in 1979 | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| Proposed by Nixon to provide a guaranteed or minimum income to every American family | Family Assistance Plan |
| Goal of Nixon's southern strategy | Make the Republican party a powerful force in the South |
| Nixon was ordered to turn over his taped Oval Office conversation | Result of United States v. Nixon |
| Reason Pres. Ford stressed openness in his speech after gaining Presidency | To rebuild the public's trust in government |
| Gerald Ford continued... | Nixon's foreign policy |
| Change in American society during the 1970's | Many blue-collar workers moved to the Sunbelt |
| Carter's most controversial foreign policy decision | Return Panama Canal Zone to Panama |
| In 1979, the US faced a hostage crisis | In Iran |
| Established procedures for presidential succession | 25th Amendment |
| Penalties | Sanctions |
| Reflected Nixon's attitude toward "Big Government" | Proposal for revenue sharing with the states |
| Nixon's southern strategy involved... | Criticizing court ordered busing of school children |
| During Gerald Ford's term as Pres., Republican won many sears in this house of Congress | House of Representatives |
| One way American society changed during the 1970's | Divorce rate increased significantly |
| What caused the cooling of the US-Soviet relationship in the 1970's? | Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| Migration of people from Cuba to United States | Mariel boatlift |
| What Egypt agreed to do to achieve peace with isreal | Formally recognize the nation of Isreal |
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