| A | B |
| Fair Campaign Practices Act | limited the amount of money that individuals could contribute to candidates |
| Mayaquez | American merchant ship seized by Cambodian Communists in 1975 |
| Bicentennial | anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence |
| Nelson Rockefeller | Vice President under Gerald Ford |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet leader at the Helsinki and Vladivostok summits |
| Ronald Reagan | Conservative Republican who challenged Ford's leadership |
| Vietnam and Watergate | caused distrust,anxiety, bitterness and doubt |
| 25th Amendment | method used to replace Agnew and Nixon |
| Pardon | Action taken by Ford to give Nixon legal forgiveness for his Watergate crimes |
| WIN | Ford's anti-inflation program that was a failure |
| Detente | Foreign policy strategy opposed by Reagan |