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An Age of Limits - Chapter 32 Flashcards

To understand the political, social, and economic events of the 1970s and the Nixon Administration.

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37th president

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Richard M. Nixon

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Plan to give federal power back to the states

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New Federalism

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

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Revenue Sharing

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

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Family Assistance Plan

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Nixon’s effort to attract Southern votes by opposing desegregation

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Southern strategy

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

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Stagflation

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Organization of nations that export oil

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OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

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Nixon’s foreign policy that attempted “realistic politics”

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Realpolitik

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Policy aimed at easing Cold War tensions

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Détente

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Treaty to limit nuclear weapons

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SALT I Treaty

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The constitutional process for removing a president from office

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Impeachment

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Scandal that forced Nixon to resign

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Watergate

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Adviser to NIxon

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H.R. Haldeman

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Adviser to Nixon

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John Ehrlichman

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Attorney general and director of Nixon;s campaign

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John Mitchell

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Nixon’s campaign committee

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Committee to Reelect the President

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Judge in the trial of the Watergate burglars

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Judge John Sirica

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

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Saturday Night Massacre

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38th president

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Gerald R. Ford

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39th president

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Jimmy Carter

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Law that aimed to conserve energy

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National Energy Act

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Rights and freedoms that all people should enjoy

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Human rights

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Agreements between Israel and Egypt

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Camp David Accords

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

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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Environmentalist crusader in the U.S.

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Rachel Carson

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Annual day to celebrate the environment

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Earth Day

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Person who actively tries to protect the environment

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Environmentalist

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Federal agency formed to decrease pollution

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Site of a nuclear plant that released radiation into the air

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Three Mile Island

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