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Nixon's Domestic Policy
Nixon's Foreign Policy
Watergate
Jimmy Carter
Reagan & Bush I
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Nixon's TERM for the Americans who wanted to end the social chaos of the 1960s, bring about an honorable peace in Vietnam, and restore stability to US society.
What is the "Silent Majority"?
100
Nixon's National Security Adviser and right-hand-man for foreign policy, including our extraction from Vietnam.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
100
THIS was the overarching motivation for breaking into the Watergate complex and spying on the Democratic campaign.
What is winning reelection in 1972?
100
Our declining economy took a big hit in the 1970s when Arab nations did THIS as a result of our support of Israel.
What is embargo oil?
100
The pejorative TERM for Reagan's supply-side economics approach that argued cutting taxes for the wealthy business classes will lead to greater economic investment and prosperity for all.
What is Reaganomics or trickle-down economics?
200
TERM used to describe Nixon's prosecution of rioters, draft dodgers, campus radicals, deserters, organized criminals, and street criminals.
What is "Law & Order"?
200
The TERM for Nixon's extension of Vietnamization to include all of our Allies in the Cold War.
What is the Nixon Doctrine?
200
These TWO investigative journalists exposed the Watergate scandal to the American public.
Who are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?
200
LBJ's contributed policies contributed to our economic problems in the 1970s because of THESE THINGS.
What is overspending on both the Vietnam War and Great Society programs while simultaneously not raising taxes?
200
The term for Reagan's "Star Wars" program to protect the US from Soviet nukes and bankrupt the Soviet Union.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
300
Nixon's program to reduce the size of the federal government and give more power to state and local governments.
What is the New Federalism?
300
The TERM for Nixon's cold war policy of relaxing tensions between the US and communist nations: trying to find common ground and build a peaceful world from there.
What is Détente?
300
Nixon did not directly order the burglary, but he did illegally do THIS.
What is directly order the cover up: destroy incriminating documents, lie to investigators, order the CIA to stop the FBI from investigating.
300
THIS ACTION was a good faith gesture to try to undue our reputation among Latin American nations as a bully in the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Panama Canal Treaties, giving back control of the canal to Panama in the year 2000?
300
Reagan invaded this tiny Caribbean island in 1983 because it had set up a Communist government and allied with Cuba.
What is Grenada?
400
Nixon wanted to abolish many of these liberal Democratic social programs begun under LBJ in the 1960s.
What is the Great Society?
400
Nixon was the first ever president to give this communist nation diplomatic recognition, and was also the first president to visit this communist nation.
What is Communist China?
400
The revelation that THESE EXISTED completely changed the nature of the Watergate investigation. The Supreme Court ruled Nixon could NOT protect these using the principle of Executive Privilege.
What are the Nixon Tapes?
400
THESE peace agreements between Israel and Egypt signaled the beginning of a long peace process in the Middle East.
What are the Camp David Accords?
400
President George H.W. Bush invaded this country to ensure it had a pro-US government in 1989.
What is Panama?
500
(Reagan's Presidency). In 1986, the nation mourned the loss of NASA's astronauts plus a civilian teacher when THIS SHUTTLE exploded due to taking off in freezing weather.
What is the Challenger?
500
Nixon traveled to the Soviet Union for a summit in Moscow to negotiate THIS TREATY, addressing nuclear arms.
What is SALT I?
500
THIS ACTION of new president Gerald Ford caused a firestorm of public criticism, making some think that the president was above full justice.
What is Ford's full pardon of Nixon?
500
THIS crisis in Iran was a huge embarrassment to Carter and directly contributed to his defeat in the 1980 presidential election at the hands of Ronald Reagan.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
500
President George H.W. Bush went to war in the Middle East in 1991 because (1) this country, led by dictator (2) ______________, invaded (3) this country for its oil reserves. Bush's war aim was (4) this.
What is (1) Iraq, (2) Saddam Hussein, (3) Kuwait, (4) force Iraq back within its own borders.