Chapter 24

Study Guide

1. How did President Nixon try to turn America into a more conservative direction?

2. The main goal of President Nixon’s New Federalism was to:

3. ______allowed state and local governments to spend their federal tax

dollars however they saw fit, with only a few restrictions.

4. Who was Nixon’s Vice-President who promoted Nixon’s “law and order”

policies but later resigned due to charges of bribery?

5. This term refers to the dual problems of rising unemployment and

high inflation that occurred during the Nixon years.

6. What was a cause of the poor economy during the 1970s?

7. During the 1970s the United States became heavily dependent on foreign

------.

8. As President Nixon’s advisor for national security affairs, and later as

Secretary of State, he was the chief architect of Nixon’s foreign policy.

9. What was the name of President Nixon’s foreign policy?

10. What did Henry Kissinger believe should be the U.S.’s main consideration

when dealing with other nation?

11. Which of the following is the word used to describe the thawing of Cold War

tensions during President Nixon’s administrations?

12. American ping-pong players were the first official American visitors to

communist China when they participated in an international ping-pong

tournament. This visit became known as:

13. ______was the first American President to visit both communist China and the Soviet Union.

14. Most Americans ______approve of President Nixon visiting communist countries because of the fear of communism in the United States.

15. Why is the SALT I Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union

historically significant?

16. In the 1972 Presidential election, this was President Nixon’s strategy to get

conservative Southern Democrats’ votes by trying to slow down and reverse

Civil Rights policies.

17. Overall President Nixon’s attempts to slow down and reverse Civil Rights

policies were______.

18. Why did President Nixon win in a landslide victory against George McGovern

in the Presidential election of 1972?

19. ______centered on the Nixon administration’s attempt to cover up the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

20. What was the nickname of President Nixon’s small, loyal group of advisors

who, like Nixon, felt that they were above the law?

21. In the 1972 the “plumbers” were caught breaking into the offices of:

22. After President Nixon was told about the burglary, he gave his permission

for the ______to stop its investigation of the break-in.

23. Who investigated and wrote about the Watergate scandal for the

Washington Post?

24. In 2005 the secret identity of Bob Woodward’s source, known only as Deep

Throat, was revealed to be:

25. James McCord, the head burglar in the Watergate break-in, wrote a letter to

Judge John Sirica telling him that:

26. During the Senate investigation of Watergate, who revealed that President

Nixon had been deeply involved in the cover-up of the Watergate break-in?

27. Presidential aid Alexander Butterfield stunned the Senate Committee

investigating Watergate when he revealed that:

28. Why did President Nixon want Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire

Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investing Watergate for the White

House?

29. When President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire

special prosecutor Archibald Cox, the events that followed became known

as:

30. Why was President Nixon forced to give Congress all of his taped

conversations and not just provide them with the edited

transcripts?

31. The tapes showed that President Nixon:

32. President Nixon is the only American President to:

33. After Watergate many Americans:

34. Gerald Ford is the only President in American history who:

35. In order to move the country past Watergate and focus on his own

administration, President Ford:

36. President Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) was very ______in improving the American economy while he was in office.

37. What was the focus of President Ford’s foreign policy?

38. Why did Jimmy Carter defeat Gerald Ford in the Presidential election of

1976?

39. The most important domestic issue for President Carter was:

40. What was a result of President Carter’s National Energy Act?

41. Western Pennsylvania was part of the “______” of the 1970s.

42. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1976), the Supreme

Court ruled:

43. What was the basis of President Carter’s foreign policy?

44. Because of President Carter’s foreign policy the United States’ relationships

with China and the Soviet Union continued to______.

45. Because of an agreement signed during Carter’s presidency, as of

December 31, 1999, what country (or countries) owns the American-built

Panama Canal?

46. President Carter received wide-spread praise for his efforts in forging peace

between what two nations in the Camp David Accords?

47. In 1979, why did armed students seize the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran,

and take 53 Americans hostage?

48. On April 22, 1970, thousands of communities, schools, and colleges

celebrated the first ______by hosting some type of environmental

awareness activity.

49. In the 1970s, in what state did the federal government have to balance the

need for oil with the need to protect the environment?

50. The worst nuclear disaster in American history was: