An Age of Limits - Chapter 32

Question 1

37th president

Answer 1

Richard M. Nixon

Question 2

Plan to give federal power back to the states

Answer 2

New Federalism

Question 3

Plan for the federal government to share money with state and local government

Answer 3

Revenue Sharing

Question 4

Nixon’s welfare reform proposal to give direct relief to poor families

Answer 4

Family Assistance Plan

Question 5

Nixon’s effort to attract Southern votes by opposing desegregation

Answer 5

Southern strategy

Question 6

Situation that occurs when unemployment and inflation rise at the same time

Answer 6

Stagflation

Question 7

Organization of nations that export oil

Answer 7

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Question 8

Nixon’s foreign policy that attempted “realistic politics”

Answer 8

Realpolitik

Question 9

Policy aimed at easing Cold War tensions

Answer 9

Détente

Question 10

Treaty to limit nuclear weapons

Answer 10

SALT I Treaty

Question 11

The constitutional process for removing a president from office

Answer 11

Impeachment

Question 12

Scandal that forced Nixon to resign

Answer 12

Watergate

Question 13

Adviser to NIxon

Answer 13

H.R. Haldeman

Question 14

Adviser to Nixon

Answer 14

John Ehrlichman

Question 15

Attorney general and director of Nixon;s campaign

Answer 15

John Mitchell

Question 16

Nixon’s campaign committee

Answer 16

Committee to Reelect the President

Question 17

Judge in the trial of the Watergate burglars

Answer 17

Judge John Sirica

Question 18

Nixon’s firing of Justice Department officials, including the special prosecutor investigating Watergate

Answer 18

Saturday Night Massacre

Question 19

38th president

Answer 19

Gerald R. Ford

Question 20

39th president

Answer 20

Jimmy Carter

Question 21

Law that aimed to conserve energy

Answer 21

National Energy Act

Question 22

Rights and freedoms that all people should enjoy

Answer 22

Human rights

Question 23

Agreements between Israel and Egypt

Answer 23

Camp David Accords

Question 24

Iranian religious leader who led the revolution against the Shah of Iran

Answer 24

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Question 25

Environmentalist crusader in the U.S.

Answer 25

Rachel Carson

Question 26

Annual day to celebrate the environment

Answer 26

Earth Day

Question 27

Person who actively tries to protect the environment

Answer 27

Environmentalist

Question 28

Federal agency formed to decrease pollution

Answer 28

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Question 29

Site of a nuclear plant that released radiation into the air

Answer 29

Three Mile Island