Ch 28 Politics and Economics

Richard Nixon won Southern Support in the 1968 election by promising to

appoint a Southerner to the Supreme Court

Evidence on Watergate seems to show that Nixon

ordered the cover-up

By the 1970s, the US economy had become heavily dependent on

foreign/ imported oil

President Carter imposed an embargo on the sale of grain to the Soviet Union as a result of the Soviet

invasion of Afganistan

As part of Nixon’s New Federalism policy, Congress passed

revenue-sharing bills

As part od the strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to

exchange scientific information

The decline of American manufacturing was caused by

old and indefficient manufacturing plants

The 1978 Panama Canal treaties transferred control of the Panama Canal from

the US to Panama

The Orginization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced that its members would embargo, or stop shipping, petroleum to countries that supported

Israel

What was the scandal called that originated form the Nixon admin attempts to cover up its involement in the break-in at the Demo National Committee HQ

Watergate

In 1969 Pres Nixon announced that the US would now expect its allies to take care of their own defense, a policy known as

the Nixon Doc

Pres Nicon dismantled a number of federal programs and gave more control to state and local gov., a policy called

the New Federalism

Shortly after the public learned of the US negotiations with China the Soviet Union proposed an American-Soviet high-level diplomatic meeting or

Summit

VP Spiro Agnew was forced to resign in disgrace when investigators discovered that he had

accpeted bribes (tch tch tch)

Pres Jimmy Carter felt that the most serious problem related to the US economy was the nation’s dependence on

foreign/ imported oil

In Aug 1975 Pres Gerald Ford met with leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact to aign the

Helsinki Accords

The Watergate crisis led ot new laws intended to limit the power of the executive branch, including the Ethics in Gov Act, the FBI Domectic Sec Inves Guidlines Act and the

Fedral Campaign Act Amendments

Revenue-sharing

federal tax money that is distributed among the states

Impounded

to take possession of

Welfare

**aid in the form of money or necessities for those in need, especially disadvantaged social groups**

Détente

a policy that attempts to relax or ease tensions between nations

Summit

a meeting between heads of governmen

Executive privilege

principle stating that communications of the executive branch should remain confidential to protect national security

Special Prosecutor

a lawyer from outside the government