Nixon
The break-in at the DNC that Richard Nixon tried to cover up.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
The only man to be President that was not elected by the people of the USA.
Who is Gerald Ford?
November 4, 1979 -Two weeks later, Iranian students seized 52 staff members of American Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
These ‘hostages’ would be held for over a year (444 days)
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
President Reagan's economic plan that reduced government spending, income and capital gains marginal tax rates, government regulation, and controled the money supply to reduce inflation.
What is Reaganomics?
relaxing of tensions with the USSR.
What is Detente?
This was the plan used by the Nixon Administration to flip traditionally Democratic white voters of the South to become Republicans.
What was the Sourthern Strategy
Ford’s first acts as President
What is pardoned President Nixon?
This agreement was signed by Egypt and Israel at a meeting with President Carter in the United States
What were the Camp David Accords?
This is commonly looked at as the end of the Cold War
What was the destruction of the Berlin Wall
This was the location of the massive protest in China that was put down by Chinese tanks and armed military killing the protestors
Where is Tiananmen Square
The two Communist countries Richard Nixon visited in 1972
What are Russia and China
formed by several oil producing nations located mostly in the Middle East.
What is OPEC?
1. loss of manufacturing jobs in the Northeast and Midwest
2. invention of air conditioning made relocation to the South more attractive
3. increased availability of water created by dams supported larger population growth in the South
What are Causes of migration from the Rustbelt to the Sunbelt
While Reagan cut many government programs, this one area of government saw massive spending increases during the Reagan Administration.
What is spending on defense / military
The cartel O.P.E.C. stopped shipping this product to countries that did business with Israel.
What is oil
President Nixon claimed executive privilege as a reason for not turning these pieces of evidence over to congress...the Supreme Court later forced him to do it.
What are audio tapes from the Oval Office
This caused an overnight increase to the price of gas s
What is the oil embargo by OPEC?
President Carter did this in response to Russia's invasion of Afghanastan
What is boycotted the Moscow Olympics of 1980
The Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.) which was the program to develop satellites that could shoot down Soviet nuclear missiles before they hit the USA was given this nickname by the media.
What is "Star Wars"
The military operation in the Middle East whose mission was to force the Iraqi army out of Kuwait
What was Operation Desert Storm
What President Nixon did on August 9, 1974
What is resigned as President
President Ford's plan for lowering inflation. hint: It was mocked and ridiculed by many Americans
What is the WIN campaign
the term for rising prices along with a high level of unemployment
What is "stagflation"
Reagan was found to have no knowledge of this plan to sell weapons illegally to Iran and then take the money and give it to an Anti-Communist group in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra affair
Is this a Liberal or Conservative view (no chance for steal here)
The government that governs the best, governs least.
What is Conservative