Nixson, Ford, Carter

Detente

relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China

Narrowly won

In the 1968 election, Nixon _ against his opponents.

Poverty, rejection

President Nixon's upbringing composed of leading him with a strong desire to succeed.

Yom Kippur War (1973)

After Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, the Israeli military defeated the Arab armies. U.S. support

of Israel led to an Arab boycott of oil to the United States.

FDR

No US President had been to the Soviet Union since ____ at the end of World War II.

Ping Pong Diplomacy

US and China exchange ping-pong players, 1971, US ping-pong team was invited to all expense paid exhibition trip to China to compete, normally Americans weren't allowed into China because of Communism, leads to Nixon and Mao Zedong becoming friends

SALT I Treaty

a five-year agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972, that limited the nations' numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles.

Order for it to be covered up.

Nixon didn't officially plan the Watergate break-in, but he did…

Losing elections

What was Nixon's greatest insecurity/fear?

CREEP

Richard Nixon's committee for re-electing the president. Found to have been engaged in a "dirty tricks" campaign against the democrats in 1972. They raised tens of millions of dollars in campaign funds using unethical means. They were involved in the infamous Watergate cover-up.

The Plumbers

people whose job it was to stop leaks of what Nixon was trying to achieve from being let out of the White House and to get Nixon re-elected in 1972.

Photograph secret documents and place recorders on office phones.

Why did CREEP members break into the Watergate hotel?

Archibald Cox

The Special Prosecutor that was hired to investigate the Watergate Scandal; Nixon had him fired.

Stagflation

a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation); Nixon faced this in office.

Spiro Agnew

Nixon's vice-president resigned and pleaded "no contest" to charges of tax evasion on payments made to him when he was governor of Maryland. He was replaced by Gerald R. Ford.

25

of people who served time in prison for Watergate.

Southern Strategy

Nixon's plan to persuade conservative southern white voters away from the Democratic party by halting desegregation in the South.

Impeach

To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office

Pardoned Nixon

Gerald Ford's response to Nixon's crime:

Grand Rapids, MI

Where was Gerald Ford from?

Gerald Ford

1974-1977, Republican, first non elected president and VP, he pardoned Nixon

executive privilege and compromised national security

Nixon refused to release the Watergate tapes because he claimed…

No…

Did Ford's economic policy of "WIN" work?

Woodward and Bernstein

the two reporters who dug deeper into the Watergate break-in and uncovered the real scandal

Saturday Night Massacre

A name given to the resignation of the U.S. attorney general and the firing of his deputy in October 1973, after they refused to carry out President Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate affair

A Washington Outsider

Jimmy Carter because he was originally a Peanut Farmer and a person hardly involved in Politics before.

Energy Crisis of the 1970s

this was an issue that Carter needed to confront. He established the national energy act, and told people to conserve energy. Violence in the middle east created fuel shortages. Carter failed to fix the issue which caused stagflation and Reagan later entered office

Olympic Boycott, 1980

The U.S. withdrew from the competition held in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The Soviet Union had sent troops into neighboring Afghanistan to support its communist government against guerrilla attacks by fundamentalists Muslims. About 64 other nations withdrew for this and other reasons.

Iran Hostage Crisis

In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The Carter administration tried unsuccessfully to negotiate for the hostages release. On January 20, 1981, the day Carter left office, Iran released the Americans, ending their 444 days in captivity.

Camp David Accords (1978)

The meeting between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the US President Jimmy Carter. They agreed that Egypt would never again invade Israel if Israel turned over the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt

Whip Inflation Now (WIN)

a program by the Ford administration to curb inflation and dramatic price increases by putting pressure on businesses to lower prices and deter consumers from hoarding goods

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

Party: Democrat

Major Events: Camp David Accords; Iran Hostage Crisis

Crisis of Confidence Speech

Speech given by President Carter on July 15, 1979, saying that the U.S. had lost unity of purpose and to become a more energy secure nation.

Malaise Speech

On July 15, 1979, Carter gave this nationally-televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence" among the American people.

bicentennial

200th anniversary of our nation's birth/Declaration of Independence

rationed

Gas was often ____ in the 1970s due to massive shortages; def: Limited by law to a certain amount per household

Ronald Reagan

Defeated Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election