Richard Nixon
This scandal will cause Richard Nixon to resign as President in 1974?
What was the "Watergate Scandal"
A month after becoming the President, Ford used this term to forgive Richard Nixon of any crimes as President.
What is a Pardon.
To help the nation move beyond the divisions caused from the Vietnam War Carter will fulfill a campaign promise by doing this for Americans who evaded the draft.
What is Amnesty
The energy crisis that began in the 1970's was over this important resource mainly coming form the middle east.
What was oil
He was the President at the outset of what became to be the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Who was Jimmy Carter
Nixon cast himself as a spokesman for those he called Middle Americas
What is the "Silent Majority"
What was the name for the volunteer plan that Ford wanted to use to stop inflation from rising
Which major automobile company will need a federal loan to survive due to competition from Japanese automakers.
Who was Chrysler
This country, supported by the United States, was created after World War II and was at the heart of the energy crisis.
What was the country of Israel
He was the ruler of Iran who was dying of cancer and fled to the U.S. for treatment causing the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979.
Who was the Shah of Iran
Summit between Nixon and Soviet Union leader Brezhnev resulted in this agreement over deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)?
What was the SALT I Treaty
This country will fall to communism during the Ford administration in the White House.
What was South Vietnam
From what country were the Mariel boatlift people coming from to the United States
What was Cuba
Cartel created to set the price of oil around the world by the major countries producing it.
What was OPEC
He was the leader of the Fundamentalist Islamic clerics who overthrow the Shah of Iran
Who was Ayatollah Khomeini
A policy used by Nixon aimed at easing Cold War tensions with China and the Soviet Union.
What is Detente
South Vietnamese refugees left the country due to the communist takeover and will migrate to the U.S.
Who are the Boat People
After the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan in 1979 President Carter imposed sanctions and did this to the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980
What was a boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics
This foreign country benefited from the rise in the cost of gasoline because they produced fuel efficient vehicles sold in the U.S.
What was Japan
As a result of President Carter allowing the Shah to come to the U.S. for cancer treatment what will radical Iranian students capture in Tehran
What was the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
This policy would give special consideration to women and minorities in the fields of education and employment in order to make up for past discrimination..
What was Affirmative Action
This agreement between Ford and Brezhnev will favor human rights or basic rights for all people living in Europe
What was the Helsinki Accords
What was the name for the agreement signed in 1977 by the leaders of Egypt and Israel as a landmark to the Carter Presidency.
What was the Camp David Accords
This cabinet department was created as a result of the energy crisis
Department of Energy
In the election of 1980 he would promise to get the release of the 44 Americans held captive in Tehran once he became President of the United States
Who was Ronald Reagan