Foreign Policy
The treaty signed between the U.S. and North Vietnam that led to a U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War.
What are, the Paris Peace Accords?
The president that was at the center of the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
What denim leg-apparel still popular today allowed women to interact with a male-dominated work place?
Jeans
Where did Ebola originate?
Yambuku, in the Zaire Republic
When was the first earth day
April 22, 1970
The U.S. Secretary of State that is considered the mastermind behind detente.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
The main form of cover-up that the Nixon administration used, especially White House council John Dean and White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman used.
What is the hush money cover-up?
What stretchy plastic based material alleviated women of ironing, and put fashionable fast-fashion at a cheap price point?
Polyester
What shape is the Ebola virus?
A large, worm-like structure
What alternate form of waste disposal became popular in the 1970s.
recycling
Two treaties, the first interim agreement signed in 1972 and the second signed 1979, between the U.S. and Soviet Union that limited the amount of nuclear warheads and anti-missile defense systems in the possession of both superpowers.
What are the SALT I and SALT II treaties?
The president that faced a lot of congressional opposition as a result of all of the congressional skepticism that Congress gave the president after Watergate.
Who is Gerald Ford?
What recent anti-gay police riot(s) had pushed the gay community into the disco scene?
The Stonewall Riots
What agency was created at the beginning of the 1970s to protect human health and the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
A landmark 1978 deal between Egypt and Israel, negotiated through the U.S government, that returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, normalized diplomatic relations, provided security guarantees between the two, and provided a framework for peace in the Middle East.
What are the Camp David Accords?
The commission created out of the amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, which were created to limit corrupt practices in regards to campaign finance that Nixon did in the Watergate scandal.
Who was the first openly gay politician elected to public office in California?
Harvey Milk
When was the largest Ebola outbreak?
The West African Ebola outbreak (2014)
What law was created to protect national air quality.
The Clean Air Act (CAA)
This military campaign by the Soviet Union in December of 1979 is considered the nail in the coffin that ended detente, prompting President Carter to ask the Senate to fail the ratification of the SALT II Treaty.
What is the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
The office that came out of act that came as a result of the Watergate scandal that would promote the integrity of the president and future presidential candidates by requiring public disclosure about their past employment and financial history.
What is the Office of Government Ethics?
What was the original French name for 'disco'?
discothèque
The scientists who first received Ebola in the lab and then investigated it in the Zaire region was named?
Peter Piot
how many people celebrated the first earth day
20 million