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An association of oil producing nations whose national incomes depend on oil sales.
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
Location of the "Plumbers" break-in of the Democratic Party's National Headquarters during the 1972 Presidential Election cycle.
What is the Watergate Hotel?
The resulted from the OPEC oil embargo of the United States in 1973.
What is the energy crisis?
The plan to reduce the size and power of the Federal Government.
Executive Branch department whose purpose is "to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment."
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
The only individual to hold the Presidency to never have stood for election for either Executive Branch office.
Location of the Peace Treaty signing between Israel and Egypt's leaders.
A 5-year agreement that limited the USSR to 1,618 and USA to 1,054 total ICBMs.
What are the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)?
The relaxing of tension and hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is detente?
This government agency was charged with protecting workers on the job.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
This President was in office during the Iranian Revolt against the Shah of Iran and the subsequent US Embassy Hostage crisis.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Location of the first nuclear power plant accident in the United States?
What is Three Mile Island?
This 1972 legislation limited the the amount of sewage and other pollutants flowing into waterways in the United States.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This international observation was established on April 22, 1970 to demonstrate concern for the environment.
What is Earth Day?
This organization was formed in 1971 to raise funding to support women as candidates for public offices.
What is the National Women's Political Caucus?
This American track and field athlete who won the 1976 Olympic Decathlon event in Montreal, Quebec.
Who is Bruce Jenner?
States along the Great Lakes whose industries were closed and abandoned during the economic stagflation of the 1970s.
What is the Rustbelt?
This 1974 law gave the EPA the authority to regulate public drinking water quality.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
This federal program offers individuals tax credits as incentives to make their homes and appliances more energy efficient.
What is the National Energy Act?
New free-form music developed during the 1970s that initiated dance clubs across the United States.
What is disco?
Counterculture comedian whose anti-government skits exemplified the distrust in government created by the Watergate Scandal.
Who is George Carlin?
New York City establishment that was the center of disco culture in the United States.
What is Club 54?
The national celebration on July 4, 1976.
What is the Bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence?
This government program to support every poor American family with a minimum annual income failed to be passed by Congress.
What is the Family Assistance Plan?
Failed moon mission that resulted in the successful rescue of astronauts stranded in space following a collision with space debris.
What is the Apollo 13 Mission?