Stats: to Nixon and beyond

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”🡪 anyone who opposed ______ was a friend of the U.S.	communism	68%
Nixon’s head national security advisor	Henry Kissinger:	68%
easing Cold War tensions	Détente	64%
“real politics” base political goals on concrete national interests instead of abstract ideologies.	Realpolitik	64%
everyday people, the non-shouters	silent majority	64%
to create more tension between China & ____ _____	soviet union	64%
U.S. & China: Full diplomatic relations by 19	79	57%
1968 election: Represented _____ America	middle	57%
regulates workplaces for more safety	OSHA	54%
Un. Leader Leonid	Brezhnev	50%
Nixon made a trip to _____ made agreements:	Moscow	50%
Jan. 1979: Iran🡪____ (emperor) fled Iran,	shah	50%
botched burglary (bugging) of Democratic Party headquarters at ______ complex	Watergate	50%
federal war against illegal drugs	DEA	46%
1976 presidential election winner	Jimmy Carter	46%
first treaty to freeze ICBMs and limit ABMs	SALT 1	46%
recession and inflation	Stagflation	46%
Reagan reelected against	Walter Mondale	46%
Nixon reaches out to Communist China🡪 meets with Chinese Premier	Zhou Enlai	46%
deals with ____ epidemic	AIDs	43%
Sept. 1978: _____ ____ ____ settle peace between Egypt and Israel	Camp David Accords	43%
enforces federal environmental standards	EPA	43%
____ ate people’s savings, raised prices of necessities, Amer. Goods more costly abroad	inflation	43%
more power to state govt. & revenue sharing	New Federalism	43%
Ford _____ Nixon of all wrongdoings	pardons	43%
puts 1st wom. on Sup. Crt:	Sandra Day O’Connor	43%
inflation hits country hard, Ford proposes WIN Program: clear failure, his popularity plummets. WIN stands for?	Whip Inflation Now	43%
this won't end until what year	1981	39%
he didn't have tie to the _____ party so most bills didn't pass	democratic	39%
1st woman nom. to V.P.	Geraldine Ferraro	39%
Nixon claims innocence🡪 stating _ __ ___ _ _____	i am not a crook	39%
Sov. Un. Invades ________ to estab. Comm. Govt.	Afghanistan	36%
called for ____ of Vietnam draft dodgers: very criticized for this bc looked like he forgave those who refused to fight for their country	amnesty	36%
July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong landed on the moon: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” (Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin)	Apollo Program	36%
reduced taxes by 25% over 3 yrs. (rich got biggest break=invest more in businesses=help everyone	ERA	36%
Nixon refuses to release tapes under ____ ____ ( right to keep it classified)	executive privilege	36%
___ enters after nixons registration	ford	36%
suspension of ___ sales to Sov. Un.	grain	36%
Carter returns control of _____ ____ to Panama by 1999	panama canal	36%
reform Soviet system	perestroika	36%
Nixon hands in the tapes and then ____. The first president to do so	Resign	36%
$ from fed. govt. to states for social programs	revenue sharing	36%
Carter withdraws SALT II and imposes ______	sanctions	36%
Carter appoints Paul _____ to head Fed. Reserve Brd. whose policies to raise interest rates end inflation	Volcker	36%
crazy citizens take __ us citizens hostage at the us embassy	66	32%
“New Democrat”: biggest voter turnout since 1960	Bill Clinton	32%
this car company needed a loan from the govt to stay afloat	Chrysler	32%
2008 election woman participants	clinton	32%
supports limited govt. involvement in the economy, community help for the needy and traditional values🡪 New Right	Conservative	32%
Reagan supports his V.P. ____ _ _ ____ for Pres.	George H.W. Bush	32%
new openness	glasnost	32%
these accords among U.S., S.U., Europe, Canada supported human rights	Helsinki	32%
1st time Af. Amer. ran and won the Presidency	Obama	32%
“supply-side economics”: reduced taxes =people work more=more $ to spend=economic growth, then govt. can collect more taxes	Reaganomics	32%
new Civil Rights initiatives/attempt to get more Republican support in the South	Southern Strategy	32%
dismantled Johnson’s Off. Of Econ. Opp. “_____ _______ program” & incr. fed. spending on social welfare progs. like Medicare & public housing	War on poverty	32%
hijacked planes crashing into WTC towers, Pentagon, Pa. (9-11-01)	9/11	29%
______ ______ takes power in iran	Ayatollah Khomeini	29%
Improving education with the no child left ____	behind	29%
comes down🡪 by 1991 Cold War over	berlin wall	29%
Bush wins in disputed election with this bug ballot	butterfly	29%
He developed an “______ ___” and used federal agencies to go after his enemies to secure reelection	enemies list	29%
oil still expensive, cold winter of ’76-’77🡪 more need for heating oil, factories/businesses closed was known as this crisis	energy	29%
supports govt. intervention to help the needy and favor laws protecting the rights of women and minorities	Liberal	29%
Increase in price of oil🡪During 1973 war btwn. Israel and Arabs, _ _ _ _ placed oil embargo on Israel’s allies (U.S.) & cost of oil went up 400%	OPEC	29%
2008 election woman participants	palin	29%
Impeachment for	perjury	29%
June 1979 US signs this program, which is the second of its kind	SALT 2	29%
1986 _____ explosion	Challenger	25%
U.S. arrest Panama dictator, ___ ____🡪 sentenced to 40 yrs. for drug trafficking	Manuel Noriega	25%
iraq leader	Saddam Hussein	25%
proposed land/space lasers destroy missiles before they hit targets	Strategic Defense Initiative	25%
illegal investments in Arkansas real estate	whitewater	25%
Passed anitcrime bills named ___ bill	brady	21%
less govt. control of big businesses	Deregulation	21%
with support of many _________ _____________	Christian Fundamentalists	21%
(al Quada) behind attacks; Afghanistan’s Taliban govt. hiding him; we attacked;	Osama Bin Laden	21%
Capital _____fell	Baghdad	18%
1985: new Sov. Leader	Gorbechev	18%
however he failed in ____ reforms	healthcare	18%
coordinated fed., state, local security matters was this department	homeland security	18%
Reagan negot. with terrorist grps. & sold arms to Iran so they would pressure Lebanon for Amer. hostage release. Then gave proceeds from the sale to Nicaraguan Contras.	Iran-Contra Affair	18%
invades this place	Kuwait	18%
clintons #1 opp in congress	Newt Gingrich	18%
affirmative action: reverse discrimination	Philadelphia Plan	18%
and plans to invade	Saudi Arabia	18%
revealed🡪 Nixon secretly taped Oval Office conversations for years in _____ of 1973	summer	18%
overthrown in 3 mo., free elections	Taliban	18%
Bush won, but by 2006 approval _ _ _ _	fell	14%
balance budget by 1990 by imposing automatic cuts in fed. Spending if deficit reached certain amt.	Gramm-Rudman Hollings Act	14%
U.S. invaded Iraq seeking out nuc., bio., chem. WMD’s was this operation	Iraqi Freedom	14%
U.S. with UN country help bombarded Iraq	Operation Desert Storm	14%
law enforcement=more power to seek out terrorists	patriot act	14%
in Beijing where Chinese students prodemocracy protests were put down by the Chinese govt.🡪 condemned by U.S.	Tiananmen Square	14%
general	Powell	11%
general	Schwarzkopf	11%
Nelson Mandela ________ mvt. leader imprisoned since 1962, released in 1990, made leader in 1994 & estab. democracy	antiapartheid	7%
Clashes with	Libya	7%
Extending Medicare to cover ______ for seniors	prescription	7%
led by ____ __ _____	Omar al-Qaddafi	4%

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