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- Why was Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” program unsuccessful?
- This term refers to a philosophy in which foreign policy should be based solely on consideration of power, not ideals or moral principles.
- This presidential practice of withholding funds for federal programs was declared unconstitutional.
- The first Earth Day, celebrated in 1970, was a response to concerns over what?
- What has been the most lasting effect of Watergate?
- President Carter’s foreign policy was marked by a commitment to ___.
- This organization of oil producers cut off oil sales to the United States after the United States sent aid to Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
- This term refers to the dual problems of rising unemployment and inflation encountered during the Nixon years.
- This term refers specifically to the foreign relations policy adopted by the United States during the Nixon administration to ease Cold War tensions.
- In 1973, the OPEC nations cut off their supply of ___ to the United States.
- Under the philosophy of realpolitik, what was the most important consideration in formulating a relationship with another country?
- Five men are caught breaking into the Democratic campaign headquarters located in the ___ complex in Washington, D.C.
- President Nixon adopted a policy known as ___ in order to reduce the size and power of the federal government.
- Nixon claimed that this would reduce the supervisory role of the government and make welfare recipients responsible for their own lives.
- This was the basis of a bill that allowed state and local governments to spend their federal dollars however they saw fit within certain limitations.
- In the event known as ___, Nixon ordered Attorney General Richardson to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate break-in.
- This condition in combination with high unemployment produces stagflation.
- When Nixon resigned, ___ became president.
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- Nixon releases ___ of his conversations, but they fail to satisfy investigators, who are searching for hard answers to the questions, “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”
- The Supreme Court orders Nixon to surrender ___, and the House Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment. Nixon obeys the court order but, a few days later, resigns without admitting guilt.
- This president was proudest of his record on civil rights.
- The U.S. government established the ___ to set and enforce pollution standards.
- This five-year agreement limited the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles to 1972 levels.
- This term refers to Nixon’s attempts to attract conservative voters by slowing down or reversing civil rights policies and naming conservative judges to the Supreme Court.
- This man would have become the next president after Nixon’s resignation had he not been forced to resign previously over a separate scandal.
- What action did Nixon take that provided temporary relief from stagflation in 1971?
- Nixon signed this treaty with the Soviet Union.
- This man helped Nixon formulate the policy of détente.
- This man’s pardon of Nixon might have contributed to his own political defeat.
- After the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the effects of ___ became an increasing concern to many Americans.
- This agreement was a major foreign policy achievement of Ford’s presidency.
- This president advocated the Family Assistance Plan.
- Nixon’s visit to ___ in 1972 to begin normalizing relations was a reversal of previous American policy established in 1949.
- The Camp David Accords were an agreement between ___ and Israel.
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