Chapter 31

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

After the shah was overthrown, Iran came under the control of

inflation

An overall rise in prices

What did Three Mile Island and Love Canal have in common?

Both were environmental crises that marred the Carter presidency.

President Carter's greatest foreign policy achievement was the

Camp David Accords.

Your Text HerThe reporters who broke the Watergate scandal were

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.

___ pardoned Richard Nixon for his role in Watergate.

Gerald Ford

How did President Carter respond to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

He blocked food shipments to the Soviets and announced a U.S. boycott of the Olympic games.

Camp David Accords

Historic agreement between Israel and Egypt

The first American Astronaut to walk on the moon was

Neil Armstrong

President Nixon proposed a solution to domestic problems called ____ which would shift power and money to states and cities.

New Federalism

People's Republic of China

Officially recognized under the Carter administration

New Federalism

President Nixon proposed a solution to domestic problems called ____ which would shift power and money to states and cities.

détente

President Nixon's efforts to ease Cold War tensions were called

executive privilege

President must be able to keep conversations and meetings private

OPEC

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Carter

Who does this description describe? He was an honest man who tried to break down barriers between the presidency and ordinary Americans.

On the Jewish holy day of ____, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.

Yom Kippur

The Washington Post

____ was the newspaper that continued to investigate the Watergate story.

Richard Nixon believed the federal government should

be smaller

Why were Americans outraged by the Saturday night massacre?

because President Nixon's actions seemed to challenge the Constituti

pardon

formal, legal forgiveness for a crime

One of President Nixon's first key goals for his presidency was to

improve relations with the Communist People's Republic of China.

How did Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter differ?

policies on realistic views of national interest rather than on principles; Carter stressed that foreign policy had to be guided by basic ideas of human freedom.

Gerald Ford had difficulty being an effective president because

the Democratic Congress did not support his policies, and new limits had been imposed on presidential power.

Until 1999, the Panama Canal was controlled by

the United States

transcript

written record of a spoken event


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