Nixon
Nixon's foreign policy toward communism - means "relaxing of tensions."
What is 'detente?'
Nixon: impeached or resigned?
What is resigned?
WIN - "Whip Inflation Now" was a plan from this President.
Who is Gerald Ford?
The general term for a combination of supply-side economics and greater military spending.
What is "Reaganomics?"
The economic term for a combination of high inflation and high unemployment.
What is 'stagflation?'
Nixon's plan to encourage Dixiecrats to vote Republican was known as this:
What was the 'Southern Strategy?'
Nixon's Vice President who resigned after charges of bribery and corruption.
Who was Spiro Agnew?
The only President who served never having won an national election.
Who is Gerald Ford?
The first women appointed to the SCOTUS.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
SCOTUS case that prohibited laws banning abortions.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Name one (of the original five) members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
What is (Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or Venezuela)?
What is Egypt?
He promised: "Read my lips, no new taxes" and then lost an election because there were new taxes...turns out you need money when you spend so much and reduce taxes for the wealthy - crazy right?
Who is George H. W. Bush?
Liberals and Conservatives (in U. S. politics) are often simplified in how they view the role of the federal government; which one wants the government to be smaller?
Who are "Conservatives?"
SALT - I is an acronym for this:
What is "Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty?"
This famous political event occurred when Nixon's Attorney General resigned instead of firing the Special Prosecutor investing Watergate.
What is the 'Saturday Night Massacre?'
The Iran Hostage Crisis lasted this many days.
What is 444?
Reagan's campaign helped create a pseudo-religious movement linking fundamentalist Christianity with the Republican party known as the:
What is the "Moral" Majority?
The first women on a major party ticket in a Presidential election in the United States.
Who was Geraldine Ferraro?
Nixon beat this Democrat in 1972 by the largest popular vote margin in U. S. history (yes ever bigger than Reagan in 1984).
Who was George McGovern?
The pseudonym of the person (who turned out to be Mark Felt, Associate Director of the FBI) who leaked information to the Washington Post about Nixon's involvement in the Watergate Scandal.
What was "Deep Throat?"
He was the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (and later Supreme Leader of Iran)
Who was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
The code name for the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq.
What was Operation Desert Storm?
Mikhail Gorbachev's policies in the Soviet Union that helped speed its collapse (name both).
What are 'glasnost' and 'perestroika?'