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President Nixon
Watergate Scandal
Ford and Carter
New Age Movement
Conservatism/Liberalism
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How did Nixon win the 1968 election?
By appealing to a silent majority of conservatives
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the House Judiciary Cimmittee voted to do what with Nixon?
impeach him
100
Did Carter solve the problem of inflation?
No
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What did New Age enthusiasts want to achieve?
Fuller spiritual awareness.
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What group generally has a fundamental distrust of the power of government?
Conservatives
200
What strategy did Nixon use to attract more Southerners to the Republican Party?
Southern Strategy
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What did the Watergate Scandal do to the federal government?
It eroded public confidence in the federal government.
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Where did Carter attempt to craft a moral foreign policy?
the Middle East and Latin America
200
What new music saw a rise during the 1970s?
disco
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This group believes that the government should regulate the economy to protect people from the power of large coroporations and wealthy elites.
Liberals
300
What did Nixon call dismantling a number of federal programs and giving more control to state and local governments?
New Federalism
300
What did Nixon dismiss the incident as?
a "third-rate burglary attempt"
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What were Gerald Ford's goals as he became president?
To fight inflation at home and sought detente abroad.
300
What form of exercise became popular to get fit?
Aerobics
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Support for conservative ideas began to revive for reasons relating to which war?
The Cold War
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Nixon used detente to ease tensions between which world powers?
The US and its two major Communist rivals, Soviet Union and China.
400
Where did the break-in occur?
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
400
Ford met with the leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact to sign which document?
The Helsinki Accords
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Which rock band brought an American following to Maharishi and his spiritual movement?
The Beatles
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Who founded the National Review, a new conservative magazine?
William F. Buckley
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Who did Nixon appoint as his national security advisor?
Henry Kissinger
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Who was discovered as one of the burglars?
James McCord
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Carter persuaded Congress to create which department?
The Department of Energy
500
What spiritual movement was popular during the late 1950s?
Transcendental meditation
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Using television and mail campaigns, what built up a network of ministers to register new voters who backed conservative candidates and issues?
Moral Majority