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"Hors d' Ouvres": term used to describe that the Senate would be filled up on small fish, before they kept looking
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"Saturday Night Massacre": Nixon fired 3 attorney general in 24 hours because no one would fire Cox
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"The Plumbers": The Group that worked for Nixon
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Affirmative Action: a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group
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Archibald Cox: Special Prosecutor that was hired to investigate the Watergate Scandal
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Cambodia: Country that was Extensively bombed
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Carter Doctrine: Warning that any attempt by outside forces to gain control of the Persian Gulf would be met with military force from the US; created because Soviets were in Afghanistan and too close to Persian Gulf oil
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China: important country that Nixon established more friendlier-relations with. It led to a dramatic increase in trade
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Committee To Re-Elect the President (CREEP): an organization formed to run Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, which was linked to the Watergate scandal.
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Daniel Ellsberg: prominent Vietnam war critic; leaked secret document
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Détente: another word for cooperation, relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China
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Election of 1980: Ronald Reagan won over Jimmy Carter because of the Iranian hostage crisis and America's stagflation.
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Election of 1988: The election in which George Bush (R) defeats Michael Dukakis (D), Bush was Reagans former vice president of the United States
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Equal Rights Amendment: constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender
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G. Gordon Liddy: former FBI member; in-charge of plumbers (ran lookout)
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Gerald Ford: succeeded Nixon; was widely unpopular
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Henry Kissinger: Nixon's national security adviser and secretary of state
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Iran-Contra Affair: This involved high officials in the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran (in return for the release of Western hostages in the Middle East) and illegally using the proceeds to finance the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. (Reagan was almost impeached)
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Iranian revolution: Mullahs (religious leaders) overthrow the US backed Shah and establised a theocracy (religious government) that hated the US
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Jerry Falwell: (Listen, America!) Leader of the religious Right Fundamentalist Christians, a group that supported Reagan; rallying cry was "family values"; anti-feminist, anti-homosexuality, anti-abortion, favored prayer in schools
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Jimmy Carter: President who stressed human rights. Because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow; 39th President
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John Dean: white house counsel; president's personal lawyer
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John Mitchell: attorney general and chair of CREEP
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Mikhail Gorbachev: Soviet leader during Reagan's presidency.
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National Security/Abuse of Power - everything was about the war: Extra Credit
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Neoconservatives: a group that championed free-market capitalism liberated from government restraints, anti-Soviet positions in foreign policy, questioned liberal welfare programs, and called for the reassertion of traditional values of individualism and the centrality of the family
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New York Times: extremely active newspaper through this time period
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Pentagon Papers: secret government documents published In 1971; revealed that the u.s. government had misled americans about the vietnam war.
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Philadelphia Plan: plan by Nixon that required construction contractors on federal projects to hire specific numbers of minority workers; the plan was eventually abandoned
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President Richard M. Nixon: conservative president
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Reagonomics: Ronald Reagan's economic beliefs that a captitalist system free from taxation and government involvement would be most productive
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Redstockings Manifesto: Radical feminist organization in NY who issued a 1969 manifesto. It was dedicated to winning women's freedom and says that the conflicts between men and women are not individual, but political and it must be solved collectively
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Ronald Reagan: president, 1981-1989, who led a conservative movement against détente with the Soviet Union and the growth of the federal government; some people credit him with America's victory in the Cold War while others fault his insensitive social agenda and irresponsible fiscal policies.
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Senate Committee: headed by Sam Erwin; exposed Mitchell & Nixon
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Stagflation: reduced imports, a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment while prices rise
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The Burger Court / Warren Burger: Chief Justice _______ ________, was appointed by Nixon, who thought he would be a great conservative addition to the court. He ended up being somewhat liberal.
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Vietnamization: a policy by Nixon, in which, American troops would gradually be withdrawn, while South Vietnamese soldiers did more of the fighting
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Watergate: a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice
