1970s
24. What is OPEC?
25. What does OPEC stand for?
26. What were the effects of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo in the United States?
27. Describe the overall economy in the United States during the 1970s.
28. President Nixon believed the Supreme Court was too what?
29. What did the Supreme Court do in Roe v Wade (1973)?
30. What is détente?
31. What is generally regarded as THE major accomplishment of the Nixon administration?
32. What were the Pentagon Papers?
33. How did the Nixon Administration react to the Pentagon Papers?
34. What was the Watergate scandal?
35. The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to do what?
36. Literally, what was the Watergate?
37. What person developed the idea to break into the headquarters of Democratic National Committee and later
exposed Richard Nixon's role in a subsequent cover-up when he testified before Congress?
38. What role did the Washington Post play in the Watergate scandal?
39. How did Nixon respond to allegations that the Watergate break in was politically motivated?
40. What groups investigated the Watergate scandal?
41. Who began televised hearings looking into the Watergate scandal in May 1973?
42. How did the media refer to the firing of Archibald Cox, special prosecutor for the Watergate case?
43. The impeachment charges agreed upon by the House Judiciary Committee accused President Nixon of what?
44. Incriminating evidence against President Nixon was found in what?
45. The Watergate scandal led to Richard Nixon's downfall primarily because of what?
46. Who was the only President in American history to resign?
47. Who was the vice-president of the United States under Richard Nixon who resigned amid allegations of
financial wrong doing?
48. Who became the President after Nixon’s resignation?
49. What made the Ford administration different from any other in the history of the United States?