Nixon and Vietnam
Policy that gradually replaced U.S. troops with South Vietnamese forces
What is Vietnamization?
Political scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation
What is Watergate?
Economic condition combining inflation and unemployment
What is stagflation?
Environmental awareness event first held nationwide in 1970
What is Earth Day?
1978 peace agreement between Egypt and Israel
What are the Camp David Accords?
Leaked documents showing the government misled the public about Vietnam
What are the Pentagon Papers?
Supreme Court case forcing Nixon to release the White House tapes
What is United States v. Nixon?
1973 action by oil‑producing nations that caused fuel shortages
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
Federal agency created to regulate pollution
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Carter’s foreign policy focus on moral principles
What are human rights?
Congress passed this law in 1973 to limit presidential war powers
What is the War Powers Act?
President who pardoned Richard Nixon
Who is Gerald Ford?
Federal campaign encouraging personal savings and disciplined spending habits under Ford
What is WIN (Whip Inflation Now)?
1972 law prohibiting gender discrimination in schools
What is Title IX?
1979 uprising that overthrew the Shah of Iran
What is the Iranian Revolution?
Cold War policy aimed at easing tensions with the Soviet Union
What is détente?
Two Washington Post reporters who investigated Watergate
Who are Woodward and Bernstein?
1970s economic challenge caused partly by rising energy costs
What is inflation?
Movement seeking workplace and legal equality for women
What is second‑wave feminism?
Crisis where 52 Americans were held in Tehran for 444 days
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Nixon’s strategy of balancing relations between China and the USSR
What is triangular diplomacy?
Government principle demonstrated by the investigation of Nixon
What are checks and balances?
Region that grew rapidly during the 1970s due to economic opportunity
What is the Sun Belt?
Proposed amendment guaranteeing equal rights for women
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
Soviet invasion in 1979 that increased Cold War tensions
What is the invasion of Afghanistan?