| A | B |
|---|
| Richard Nixon | The only President in American History to resign his office |
| Spiro Agnew | Nxon's Vice President. Attacked liberals. Was forced to resign. |
| Daniel Ellsberg | Stole and released the Pentagon Papers that showed that Johnson lied to the American people about Vietnam |
| Henry Kissinger | Secretary of State under Nixon. Brought an end to the Vietnam War |
| Warren Burger | replaced Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Court became more conservative. |
| George MCGovern | Lost to Nixon in 1972 |
| John Dean | key to linking Nixon to Watergate |
| Sam Ervin | led congressional investigation into Watergate |
| Gerald Ford | became President when Nixon resigned |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Radical leader of Iran-hated the U.S. |
| Shah of Iran | Irainian leader who was pro-US |
| Jimmy Carter | President during the Iranian Hostage crisis |
| detente | Nixon/Ford/Kissinger strategy for dealing with the Soviet Union |
| revenue sharing | Nixon plan to provide federal aid to states |
| executive privilege | power Nixon tried to use to block Watergate investigation |
| Vietnamization | Nixon plan to turn the fighting in Vietnam back over to the South Vietnamese Army and withdraw American troops |
| My Lai Massacre | example of war attrocity commited by American troops in Vietnam |
| Cambodia | Country invaded by the U.S. in 1970 that led to anti-war protests |
| Kent State | lacation of anti war protest in 1970 that led to students being killed by national guard troops |
| CREEP | Nixon' reelection committee. Responsible for Watergate breakin |
| OPEC | Oil producing countries that created energy crisis in the 70s |
| SALT | Treaty to limit nuclear weapons |
| Nixon Doctrine | limited the commitment of American troops to fight the wars of allies |
| Environmental Protection Agency | Created during the Nixon years |
| War Powers Act | passed to prevent future Vietnams. The president must get a declaration of war from Congress |
| Israel | U.S. support of this country in the 1973 war led to the Arab oil boycott |
| Helsinki Accords | dealt with Human rights |
| Jimmy Carter | popular because of his honesty |
| Human rights | guiding force in Jimmy Carter's foreign policy |
| Olympics | The 1980 games in Moscow were boycotted by the U.S. over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| Oil | U.S. dependence on foreign countries for this product was the cause of the Energy Crisis in the 1970s |
| Panama Canal | A treaty under Carter returned ownership to Panama in the year 2000 |
| Vietnam War | Longest war in American History |
