Transcript World History Review

UNITED STATES
HISTORY REVIEW
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Short Answer Questions
What happened with the Saturday Night Massacre?
Nixon wanted special prosecutor fired, the Attorney
General resigned, Assistant Attorney General was fired
and the Deputy Attorney General fired the special
prosecutor.
Short Answer Questions
What about Watergate, that brought down Nixon?
His ordering of the cover-up and using money and
government agencies to help in that cover-up.
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Nixon claimed that this would reduce the supervisory role of the government and make
welfare recipients responsible for their own lives.
Family Assistance Plan
This term refers to the dual problems of rising unemployment and inflation encountered
during the Nixon years.
Stagflation
As Nixon’s advisor for national security affairs, and later, as secretary of state, he was the
chief architect of Nixon’s foreign policy.
Henry Kissinger
This term refers specifically to the foreign relations policy adopted by the United States
during the Nixon administration to ease Cold War tensions.
Détente
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.
Southern Strategy
This term refers to a philosophy in which foreign policy should be based solely on consideration of power, not
ideals or moral principles.
Realpolitik
This five-year agreement limited the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched
missiles to 1972 levels.
Salt I Treaty
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.
OPEC
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.
Revenue Sharing
This refers to Nixon’s plan to limit the size and power of the federal government by distributing a portion of
federal power to state and local governments.
New Federalism
Richard Nixon was the first American President to visit what nation?
Soviet Union
What is an “enemies list”?
A list of prominent Americans the administration would harass
Days before sentencing, ___ writes a letter to the presiding judge, ____, in which he
confesses to lying under oath and suggests White House involvement in the burglary.
James McCord, John Sirica
The Senate begins hearings. ___ testifies that Nixon was deeply involved in the cover-up.
John Dean
Nixon releases ___ of his conservations, 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?”
Edited transcripts
Richard Nixon formally recognized what nation?
China
Five men are caught breaking into the Democratic campaign headquarters located in
the __ complex I Washington D.C.
Watergate
Nixon announces the resignation of ____ and ____, two of his closest advisors.
John Erlichman, H.R. Haldeman
Special prosecutor ___ sues the president to obtain the tapes.
Archibald Cox
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.
Unedited Tapes
What was the nickname the men that broke into the DNC headquarters?
Plumbers
Who is Mark Felt?
He was the number 2 man for the FBI that helped the Washington Post reporters.
He pardoned President Nixon.
Ford
He vetoed more than 50 pieces of legislation in two years.
Ford
He was never elected president by the American people.
Ford
When Cambodia seized a U.S. merchant ship, he responded with a massive show of
military force.
Ford
His administration included more African Americans and women than any previous
administration.
Carter
Who are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?
They were Washington Post reporters who investigated the break-in at the DNC.
He negotiated the Camp David Accords.
Carter
He pushed for passage of the National Energy Act.
Carter
His foreign policy was driven by morality and concern for human rights.
Carter
He believed that the energy crisis was the most important issue facing the United
States.
Carter
He oversaw negations resulting in the promise to turn over control of the Panama
Canal to Panama.
Carter
What book did Rachel Carlson write that brought environmental awareness to America?
Silent Spring
What act set up governmental guidelines for air standards?
Clean Air Act
Where was there a nuclear power plant meltdown?
Three Mile Island
What is an environmenalist?
—someone who takes an active role in the protection of the environment
What is celebrated on April 22?
Earth Day
What Agency was a consolidation of 15 others that enforced pollution control?
Environmental Protection Agency
What did the Alaska Claims Settlement Act?
It turned over millions of acres of land to the state’s native tribes for conservation and tribal
use.
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