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This president took office after Nixon resigned.
Who is Gerald Ford?
In 1975 this communist nation captured Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.
What is North Vietnam?
This economic condition of the 1970s combined high inflation and high unemployment.
What is stagflation
This Supreme Court case legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.
What is Roe v Wade?
This president pardoned Richard Nixon.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This Middle Eastern war in 1973 triggered the oil crisis.
What is the Yom Kippur War?
This law limited the president’s ability to deploy troops without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Act?
This Cambodian communist regime led by Pol Pot killed millions of people.
Who are the Khmer Rouge?
This organization of oil-producing countries raised oil prices and caused shortages.
What is OPEC?
These laws made divorce easier by removing the need to prove wrongdoing.
What are no-fault divorce laws?
This Georgian governor won the 1976 presidential election promising honesty in government.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This event marked the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
Nixon’s vice president who resigned earlier due to corruption charges.
Who is Spiro Agnew?
This U.S. ally in the Middle East fought multiple wars with surrounding Arab nations.
What is Israel?
These government rules limited prices during the oil crisis but worsened shortages.
What are price controls?
This movement sought to add a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equality for women.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
This activist led the successful campaign opposing the ERA.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
This economic shock caused long gas lines in the United States during the 1970s.
What is the oil embargo?
This congressional investigation exposed corruption within the Nixon administration.
What is the Watergate investigation?
This country’s invasion of Afghanistan would later contribute to Soviet decline.
What is the Soviet Union?
These organizations represented workers and often negotiated higher wages and benefits.
What are labor unions?
The introduction of this medical technology gave women greater control over fertility.
What is the birth control pill?
This communist dictator led Cambodia’s genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.
Who is Pol Pot?
This scandal led to widespread public distrust of government in the 1970s.
What is Watergate?
Ford argued this was the reason he pardoned Nixon.
What is to help the nation move forward and end the Watergate crisis?
This Cold War strategy aimed to limit nuclear weapons between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What are the SALT agreements?
This industry, once dominant in the U.S., declined due to foreign competition and outdated factories.
What is the steel industry?
These churches grew rapidly during the 1970s while many mainline churches declined.
What are evangelical churches?
This Democratic senator’s presidential hopes were damaged by the Chappaquiddick incident.
Who is Ted Kennedy?
This crisis symbolized the economic problems of the 1970s with long gas lines.
What is the energy crisis?