US History Chapter 24 vocab – Flashcards
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Nixon
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elected president of the United States. chose Henry Kissinger to be his special adviser on foreign affairs. struggled to achieve an acceptable peace in Vietnam. Involved in the watergate scandal
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new federalism
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President Richard Nixon's program to turn over part of the federal government's power to state and local governments.
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revenue sharing
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the distribution of federal money to state and local governments with few or no restrictions on how it is spent.
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Family Assistance Plan
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a welfare-reform proposal, approved by the House of Representatives in 1970 but defeated in the Senate, that would have guaranteed an income to welfare recipients who agreed to undergo job training and to accept work.
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southern strategy
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President Nixon's attempt to attract the support of Southern conservative Democrats who were unhappy with federal desegregation policies and the liberal Supreme Court.
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stagflation
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an economic condition marked by both inflation and high unemployment.
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OPEC
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the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries—an economic association of oil-producing nations that is able to set oil prices.
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realpolitik
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a foreign policy advocated by Henry Kissinger in the Nixon administration based on consideration of a nation's power rather than its ideals or moral principles.
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detente
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the flexible policy, involving a willingness to negotiate and an easing of tensions, that was adopted by President Richard Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger in their dealings with communist nations.
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SALT I treaty
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a five-year agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972, that limited the nations' numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles.
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impeachment
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the process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing.
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watergate
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a scandal arising from the Nixon administration's attempt to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex.
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H.R haldeman
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White House chief of staff under nixon
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John ehrlichman
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chief domestic adviser under nixon
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John mitchell
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Nixon's former attorney general
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Committee to reelect the president
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an organization formed to run President Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, which was linked to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that set off the Watergate scandal.
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John Sirica
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judge of watergate scandal
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saturday night massacre
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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.
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Gerald R Ford
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next president after nixon and gave nixon a full pardon
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Jimmy carter
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democratic nominee who was an unknown peanut farmer
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national energy act
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a law, enacted during the Carter adminis- tration, that established a tax on "gas-guzzling" automobiles, removed price controls on U.S. oil and natural gas, and provided tax credits for the development of alternative energy sources.
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human rights
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the rights and freedoms, such as those named in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, to which all people are entitled.
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camp david accords
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historic agreements between Israel and Egypt, reached in negotiations at Camp David in 1978.
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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the Muslim religious leader who led the rebels in overthrowing the shah and establishing a religious state based on strict obedience to the Qur'an.
