To charge a public official with wrongdoing in office and remove them from that office.
What is impeachment?
Ford was seen as this by the American people, who hoped he would help the nation after Watergate.
What is a healer?
What alternative energy source did Jimmy Carter support?
What is nuclear, solar, and alternative fuel power?
Reagan believed in this idea about government as a conservative.
What is small government?
This nation had historically been the main threat against the US during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
The name of the two reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal and where did they work?
Who were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post?
Ford would eventually lose the Election of 1976 to this Democratic candidate.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
In 1979, Carter delivered his "Malaise Speech" declaring that America was facing a crisis of confidence. Americans had lost confidence in these two things?
What is the economy, the government, the future, itself as a nation?
Reagan argued that this US should increase federal spending on this, helping to combat the Soviet Union.
What is military spending?
This led to pressure in the Soviet Union and eventually led to its collapse
What is excessive military spending, weakened economies, growing distrust in the government, and dissatisfaction with communism?
What is the Watergate Hotel?
Ford came to become President because of this event.
What is the resignation of Richard Nixon?
Carter won the presidential election in 1976 because he portrayed himself as this, something Americans wanted in response to the Watergate scandal.
What is a Washington outsider?
The country was still dealing with these two major economic issues during Reagan's administration.
What is inflation, unemployment, and stagnant economic growth?
The fall of this structure became symbolic of the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Nixon was the first president to meet with this nation during the Cold War, opening relations with them as part of detente.
What is Communist China?
Ford's strategy to beat rising inflation and economic worries was called this but was largely unsuccessful in addressing the problem.
What is WIN (Whip Inflation Now)?
Carter cut federal spending to achieve three things. Name one.
What is to stop inflation, slow the economy and reduce the deficit
Reagan believed that this would encourage Americans to spend more money, and it was part of his belief in a smaller government.
What is cutting taxes?
This strategic military defense system was proposed by President Reagan to shoot down incoming Soviet missiles.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or Star Wars?
The existence of these proved that President Nixon helped organize a cover-up of the Watergate break-in and obstructed justice during the investigation.
What are the Nixon tapes?
How did Ford lose the respect of the American people?
What is when he granted Nixon a full and complete pardon?
52 Americans were held hostage in Iran for 444 days from 1979 until 1981. This dark moment in American history is known as this.
What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Reagan believed that ___________ was not the solution to our problems; _____________ was the problem.
What is the government?
This leader of the Soviet Union helped to introduce new reforms to change the political and economic conditions in the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?