Chapter 35 - Nixon and the Arms and Space Races

Election of 1972- Immediate withdrawal from ________ + guaranteed income.

________ administration- Successful foreign policy BUT domestic issues.

Watergate Scandal

Democratic → Republican

Republican → Democratic

USSR launches Sputnik

SALT I (limit deployment + missile production)

Limit missile launchers

Neil Armstrong on the moon

Immediate withdrawal from Vietnam + guaranteed income

Men broke into Democrat HQ

Investigative reporters

Prevent press leaks (wiretapping)

Nixon impeached + resigned

Leaked by Daniel Ellsberg

Nixon told CIA to get FBI to stop Watergate investigation

Gave speech to Americans

Pardoned Nixon → Very unpopular

Successful foreign policy BUT domestic issues

The 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974

Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans

Distribution of part of the federal tax income to states and municipalities

An independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment

Acquisition or imposition of elements of Vietnamese culture, in particular the Vietnamese language and customs

A German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

A Russian artificial satellite

A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another

Cold War superpowers dealt with arms control in two rounds of talks and agreements

A nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light nuclei at high temperatures to form helium

An exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target

An independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research

The third United States human spaceflight program carried out by NASA, which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972

An American historian and South Dakota politician who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election

A political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice

Study of US involvement in Vietnam

An American lawyer, FBI agent, talk show host, actor, and convicted felon in the Watergate scandal as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit during the Nixon administration

Known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness

Audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff, produced between 1971 and 1973

An American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and was the only president never to have been elected to the office of president or vice president