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APUSH Chapter 40
APUSH 2014/2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Richard Nixon | Republican; elected president in 1968 and 1972; helped US out of Vietnam war; Nixon Doctrine; resigned due to Watergate scandal |
| Spiro Agnew | ran as vice president with Richard Nixon in 1968; very conservative; forced to resign for taking bribes |
| Daniel Ellsburg | |
| Henry Kissinger | Nixon's national security advisor; met secretly with Vietnamese officials to negotiate an end to the war |
| Warren Burger | Supreme Court justice during the Nixon administration; strict interpretation of the constitution |
| George McGovern | Democratic candidate in 1972 |
| Sam Ervin | |
| John Dean | testified against Nixon in the Watergate hearings |
| Rachel Carson | American marine biologist and conservationist; her writings are credited with advancing the global environment movement |
| Gerald Ford | first president to be solely elected by a vote from Congress; entered office when Nixon resigned; pardoned Nixon of all crimes that he may have committed; closed the Vietnam war |
| Jimmy Carter | dark horse candidate in 1976; politically successful at first |
| Shah of Iran | became shah in 1941; distributed royal lands to poor farmers; known for social and economic reform in Iran; forced into exile in 1979 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | |
| Leonid Brezhnev | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982 |
| détente | period of relaxed tensions between the Soviet Union, China, and the US; set up by Nixon; steps were made to prevent a nuclear war |
| impoundment | the refusal of a US president to spend money that has been appropriated by Congress |
| revenue sharing | Congress gave an annual amount of federal tax revenue to the states |
| executive privilege | policy that stated that Congress could not question govt employees about any topic without the President's approval |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's policy to withdraw troops out of Vietnam to bring an end to the war |
| Nixon Doctrine | stated that the US would honor its existing defense commitments, but in the future countries would have to write their own wars without the support of American troops |
| My Lai Massacre | 1968- American troops massacred women and children in a Vietnamese village; deepened Americans' disgust for the Vietnam war |
| Cambodian Incursion | series of military operations conducted in Cambodia; Nixon decided to do so |
| Kent State killings | April 1970- policy shot and killed 4 students at Kent State University who were protesting Nixon's decision to send troops to Cambodia without first consulting Congress |
| 26th Amendment | |
| Philadelphia Plan | required government contractors in Philadelphia to hire minority workers |
| Environmental Protection Agency | US federal agency charged with protecting human health and the environment; proposed by Nixon |
| Pentagon Papers | |
| ABM Treaty | |
| SALT | controversial discussions between Carter and Brezhnev that sought to curtail the manufacturing of nuclear weapons |
| MIRVs | |
| southern strategy | |
| Watergate scandal | Nixon was accused of getting illegal help to be re-elected; Nixon ultimately resigned |
| CREEP | Nixon's re-election committee; engaged in a "dirty tricks" campaign against the democrats in 1972; involved in Watergate |
| Saturday Night Massacre | Nixon's executive dismissal of the prosecutor of his case, Archibald Cox, and the resignations of many govt officials during the Watergate scandal |
| War Powers Act | Congress passed this act to restrict presidential powers dealing with war; passed over Nixon's veto |
| Title IX | states that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. |
| Equal Rights Amendment | proposed in 1923 to affirm that women and men have equal rights under the law; still not part of the Constitution |
| Wounded Knee | massacre where many Indian men, women, and children were killed as well as some American troops |
| energy crisis | caused by US reliance on foreign oil; triggered a movement that advocated energy conservation |
| Helsinki accords | signed document by many nations in order to improve relations between the Communists and the West |
| OPEC | "Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries" |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | captured Americans languished in cruel captivity; Carter tried to apply economic sanctions and the pressure of world opinion against Iranians. Carter then called for rescue mission; rescue attempt failed |
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