1970s study guide HUSH

Question 1

What was Nixon’s campaign promises?

Answer 1

To restore law and order and win peace with honor in Vietnam

Question 2

Stagflation

Answer 2

Rising inflation and unemployment and the beginning of a prolonged recession

Question 3

Energy Crisis

Answer 3

OPEC Oil Embargo and lead to increased fuel prices & consumer prices in general

Question 4

New Federalism

Answer 4

Power & responsibility shared by federal and state governments and Revenue Sharing: States allowed to spend federal funding however they wanted within limits

Question 5

Detente

Answer 5

To ease tension in the Cold War and not let it escalate

Question 6

Relations with People’s Republic of China

Answer 6

Set to recognize the PROC as China instead of the ROC (Taiwan) and keep good relations with the mainland of China

Question 7

Clean Air Act

Answer 7

Intended to regulate airborne pollution

Question 8

Watergate scandal

Answer 8

Nixon in the effort to re-elect himself more easily by breaking into the Watergate building (Democratic National Committee Headquarters) and rigging phones and stuff

Question 9

The Tapes

Answer 9

Nixon was forced to turn over the tapes. There was 18 1/2 minutes missing but the tapes still found him guilty.

Question 10

Three Mile Island Accident

Answer 10

A partial meltdown of the nuclear power plant in the middle of Pennsylvania (1979 Carter)

Question 11

Iran Hostage Crisis

Answer 11

52 US diplomats and citizens held hostage by militarized Iranian college students who took over the US Embassy

Question 12

Malaise Speech

Answer 12

A speech by President Jimmy Carter to face the economic issues that were taking place at the time

Question 13

Rust Belt

Answer 13

Known as the Rust Belt which is a more North Eastern area of the US that had experienced industrial decline