Chapter 31
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