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| JOHN MITCHELL | Attorney General under President Richard Nixon; deeply involved in Watergate scandal |
| GERALD FORD | 38 President of the United States, 1974-1977; succeeded and pardoned Nixon; failed to establish strong leadership |
| CARL BERNSTEIN | A Washington Post reporter who cracked Watergate scandal |
| JOHN DEAN | President Nixon personal legal counselor who testified that Nixon knew about the coverup |
| NEIL ARMSTRONG | Apollo 11 Astronaut who walked on the moon July 20, 1969 10:56 pm. |
| HENRY KISSINGER | Secretary of State under President Nixon and President Ford; used realpolitik to open relations with China, to end the Vietnam War, and to moderate Middle East conflict |
| G. GORDON LIDDY | A former FBI agent who was a member of Nixon’s secret organization the Plumbers |
| ARCHIBALD COX | A Harvard Law professor who served as special prosecutor for Watergate |
| WARREN BERGER | Nominated to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice by President Nixon |
| H.R. HALDEMAN | Chief of Staff under President Nixon; deeply involved in Watergate |
| Why did OPEC stop shipping oil to the US? | The US backed Israel in the War between Syria and Egpty |
| OPEC members | Iraq Iran Saudi Arabia Venezuela Ecuador Qatar Indonesia Nigeria Gabon Algeria Libya Kuwait United Arab Emirates |
| Inflations in 60’s -70’s (highest year) | 1974 |
| SALT agreement | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, a 1972 agreement between the US and the Soviet Union on limiting nuclear weapons agree to keep missile at 1972 levels for 5 years |
| Eagle Lunar landing craft | Spacecraft used by Apollo 11 Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin used to get to the moon’s surface |
| Realpolitik | A German term meaning “practical politics” or foreign policy based on interests rather than moral principles |
| Nixon personality (2 negatives) | Stiff and lacking in a sense of humor/ charm |
| Watergate | Scandal involving illegal activities that led ultimately to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974 |
| What happened in the Watergate scandal? | A group of men including members of the plumbers Liddy and Hunt broke -in to the Watergate Apartment complex which was the Democrats National Head quarters to find dirt on them. |
| Plumbers | A special White House unit to stop government leaks and find dirty on people who leak information or pose a threat to the white house. |
| Name two famous 'Plumbers' | Former CIA agent Howard Hunt |
| Elections of 1972 | Rep. Richard Nixon wins a landslide |
| candidate in 1972 election running against Nixon | Dem. George McGovern South Dakota |
| Nixon (1974) 1st president to do what? | Resign his presidency |
| President Ford details | Former member of House of Representatives |
| Appointed Vice president Oct. 1973 when Spiro Agnew resigns | President Ford |
| First nonelected president Aug. 1974 when President Nixon resigns | President Ford |
| President Ford Pardons Nixon to try | and speed up the recover process in America |
| Election of 1976 candidates | Dem. James Carter Georgia Governor /Rep. Gerald Ford |
| Barbara Jordan | 1st African American woman to give Keynote speech at Democratic national convention (NYC) 1976 |
| President Carter’s inauguration was done differently. How? | He walked down Pennsylvania Ave. instead of being driven in a Limo |
| Camp David Accords | 1978 agreement between Israel and Egypt that made a peace treaty between the two nations |
| Camp David Accords People | President Anwar el-Sadat/ Prime Minster Menachem Begin |
| Three Mile Island | Nuclear power plant meltdown/ radioactive leak near Harrisburg, Pa |
| Salt II | Carter and Brezhnev sign a new treaty June 1979 limited the number of nuclear warheads and missiles held by both countries. It was never passed by the US Senate, but it was followed by both countries. |
| Afghanistan / Olympics of 1980 | Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan over a border dispute. This action caused the US to stop grain shipments and boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. |
| Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan over a border dispute marked the end of | detente |
| Recession | Period of slow business activity |
| Helsinki Accords | Series of agreements of European Security made in 1975 |
| Bicentennial | - 200th anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of Independence |
| Diplomacy | the conducting of relations between nations |
| Affirmative action | Policy which gives special consideration to women and members of minorities to make up for past discrimination |
| Deregulation | Reduction or removal of government control |
| What happened in Iran to lead to the Iran Hostage Crisi? | The US had supported Shah(king) of Iran Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. He worked to modernize Iran and supplied western nations with oilAyatollah Khomeini led a revolution and overthrows the government. |
| How did the iranian revolution contribute to the Hostage crisis? | The Shah was exiled from Iran and Khomeini and his followers setup a strict Islamic state. President Carter lets the Shah enter the US for medical treatment. That outraged the Iranians. |
| Hostage crisis | A group of students seized the American embassy in Tehran. They took 52 Americans host and held them for 444 days. |
| Hostage crisis - Carter's approach | President Carter tried many approaches (including a risky commando rescue which failed and 8 American soldiers died) to secure the hostages freedom |
| What did Khomeini demand to solve the hostage crisis? | the shah in return for the hostages and even after the Shah died the standoff continued. |
| When were the hostages finally released? | The hostages were freed the day after President Carter left office. |
