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6 Cards in this Set
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Oil Embargo
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1973: OPEC stopped the sale of oil to America because of its support of Israel durnig the Yom Kippur War. A fuel crisis in the US resulted from the oil embargo.
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Warren Burger
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Conservative Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by Nixon after the liberal Earl Warren stepped down. He had a strong law and order record.
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Watergate
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1973: Scandel that resulted from a burglary at the Democratic National Headquaters at the Watergate Hotel. It was later discovered that the burglars were hired by CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President) to ruin political opponents records and to spy on them. Nixon then attempted to cover up the burglary from a federal investigation.
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Gerald Ford
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Speaker of the House who became vice president when Spiro T. Angew, Nixon's first vice president resigned b/c he was accused of taking bribes. When president Nixon resigned, Ford became the first non-elected President.
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Stagflation
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Term used to describe the economy during Nixon's presidency because business was stagnated and inflation was rising uncotrollably.
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Jimmy Carter
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Governer of Georgia and the first president elected from the deep South since Zachary Taylor. Lack political experience on the big scale. High unemployment and double-digit inflation were blamed on him, so he was defeated in mid-term eletions by Ronald Reagan.
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