USH Unit 12

Question 1

Foreign policy should be based on power, not ideals or moral implications, nations do what is in their own best interest

Answer 1

Real Politik

Question 2

Practiced detente with China, scientific and cultural exchange

Answer 2

Nixon and China

Question 3

Term used by Nixon to refer to the many Americans that longed for an end to the turmoil that was plaguing the nation

Answer 3

Silent Majority

Question 4

Nixon tried and successfully swayed lots of the Democratic south by promising certain things, such as only conservatives to federal courts and a Southerner in the Supreme Court

Answer 4

Southern Strategy

Question 5

Ended several federal programs and gave more control to state and local governments

Answer 5

New Federalism

Question 6

Federal tax money that is distributed among the states

Answer 6

Revenus Sharing

Question 7

A policy that attempts to relax or ease tensions between nations

Answer 7

Detente

Question 8

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, temporarily froze the number of strategic nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia

Answer 8

SALT I

Question 9

Commitment by the U.S., Canada, and most of Eastern and Western Europe to three sets of recommendations focused on security, economic, and human rights issues

Answer 9

Helsinki Accords

Question 10

Committee for the Re-election of the President, fundraising campaign for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign during the Watergate scandal

Answer 10

CRP

Question 11

Nixon’s advisers ordered five men to break into the Democratic Party’s headquarters at the Watergate complex and steal sensitive campaign information

Answer 11

Watergate

Question 12

Principle stating that communications of the executive branch should remain confidential to protect national security

Answer 12

Executive Privilege

Question 13

The losss of value of money

Answer 13

Inflation

Question 14

Persistent inflation combined with stagnant consumer demand and relatively high unemployment

Answer 14

Stagflation

Question 15

Whip Inflation Now, launched by Ford trying to reduce inflation, had little impact on the economic situation

Answer 15

WIN

Question 16

Established peace between Israel and Egypt, two nations that had been bitter enemies for decades

Answer 16

Camp David Accords

Question 17

Revolutionaries of the new Islamic republic stormed the American embassy and took 52 Americans hostage, released after 444 days, the day Carter left office

Answer 17

Iron Hostage Crisis

Question 18

An active effort to improve employment or educational opportunities for minorities and women

Answer 18

Affirmative Action

Question 19

Guaranteed reservation residents the protection of the Bill of Rights while still recognizing tribal courts

Answer 19

Indian Civil Rights Act

Question 20

Written by Rachel Carson in 1962, assailed the increasing use of pesticides

Answer 20

Silent Spring

Question 21

Environmental Protection Agency, set and enforced pollution standards, promoted research, and directed antipollution activities with state and local governments

Answer 21

EPA

Question 22

A day devoted to environmental concerns

Answer 22

Earth Day

Question 23

Established emissions standards for factories and automobiles, aimed to improve national air quality within five years, set guidelines and timetables for cities and states to meet

Answer 23

Clean Air Act

Question 24

Toxic chemicals leaking from an old landfill in a housing development known as Love Canal, Carter called for emergency aid and relocated 500 families who sued the dump site company for $20 million

Answer 24

Love Canal

Question 25

One of the reactors at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania overheated, low levels of radiation began to escape from the reactor

Answer 25

Three Mile Island

Question 26

Republican candidate for 1968 presidential election, president from 1969-1974

Answer 26

RIchard Nixon

Question 27

Governor of the state of Maryland, Nixon’s vice president

Answer 27

Spiro Agnew

Question 28

Former Harvard professor, Nixon’s national security advisor

Answer 28

Henry Kissinger

Question 29

Presidential counsel, confessed that former attorney general John Mitchell had ordered the Watergate break-in and that Nixon had taken part in the cover-up

Answer 29

John Dean

Question 29

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, used oil as a political weapon when war erupted between Israel and its Arab neighbors

Answer 29

OPEC

Question 29

Former Georgia governor, ran as an outsider promising to restore honesty to the federal government and to create or reform several domestic programs

Answer 29

Jimmy Carter

Question 29

Special prosecutor, took Nixon to court in October 1973 to make him give up the tapes

Answer 29

Archibald Cox

Question 29

Republican leader of the House of Representatives, became the new vice president

Answer 29

Gerald Ford

Question 30

Iran’s monarch, supported by the U.S. because Iran was a major oil supplier and a buffer against Soviet expansion

Answer 30

Shah of Iran

Question 31

Leader of the new Islamic republic

Answer 31

Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 32

Native American organization, protested government policies and injustices suffered by Native Americans

Answer 32

American Indian Movement (AIM)