Foreign Policy
Domestic Policy
Watergate Scandal
Other Scandals
Resignation & Legacy
100

This French word is used to describe Nixon's foreign policy approach of easing tensions with the Soviet Union.

Détente

100

Nixon created this agency to regulate pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

100

The scandal is named after this D.C. hotel complex.

Watergate

100

Nixon’s list of political opponents to harass was called this.

Enemies List 

100

Nixon became the only U.S. president to do this.

Resign

200

In 1972, Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit this communist country.

China

200

Nixon’s political strategy to win over Southern white voters was called this.

Southern Strategy

200

The burglars were caught breaking into this group’s headquarters.

Democratic National Committee (DNC)

200

These leaked documents revealed government lies about Vietnam.

Pentagon Papers 

200

Nixon resigned on this date in 1974

August 9th

300

This agreement with the USSR limited nuclear weapons

SALT I

300

Nixon declared this "public enemy number one" in 1971.

Drug Abuse/War on Drugs

300

Nixon’s re-election team had this ironic acronym.

Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP)

300

This law limited presidential war powers after Nixon’s secret bombings.

War Powers Act 

300

Nixon's successor who pardoned him

Gerald Ford 

400

Nixon secretly bombed this neutral country to target Viet Cong supply routes.

Cambodia

400

This 1970 law expanded federal power to regulate air pollution.

Clean Air Act 

400

These secret recordings proved Nixon’s involvement in the cover-up.

White House tapes 

400

Nixon tried to use this tax agency to audit his opponents.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

400

This newspaper's reporting helped uncover Watergate 

Washington Post 

500

Before becoming president, Nixon’s team may have sabotaged peace talks involving this war.

Vietnam War 

500

Nixon imposed these on wages and prices to fight inflation.

Wage and Price controls 

500

The Supreme Court case that forced Nixon to release his tapes.

United States v. Nixon 

500

Mark Felt, the former associate director of the FBI that helped expose Watergate, was known as this pseudonym

"Deep Throat"

500

These two Washington Post reporters broke Watergate

Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein 
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