In this chapter you will learn about the successes and failures of the Nixon, Ford, & Carter administrations.

›Outline the domestic & foreign policies that President Nixon followed. ›Explain how the Watergate scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation. ›Identify the challenges that the Ford & Carter administrations faced. ›Explain why support for the environmental movement grew in the 1970s. OBJECTIVES ›What were the political, social, and economic events of the 1970s? ESSENTIAL QUESTION

›New Federalism –Turn part of federal gov’t power to state & local gov’t. ›Stagflation –Economic condition marked by both inflation & high unemployment. ›OPECOPEC –Economic association of oil-producing nations that is able to set oil prices. ›Realpolitik –Foreign policy based on consideration of a nation’s power rather than its ideals. ›Détente –Willingness to negotiate & ease tensions between the U.S. & communist nations.

›Impeachment –Process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing. ›Watergate –Cover up involving 1972 break-in of Democratic headquarters by Nixon supporters. ›Committee to Reelect the President –Nixon’s reelection group linked to the Watergate break-in. ›Saturday Night Massacre –Resignation of U.S. Attorney General & firing of his deputy after refusing Nixon’s order to fire special prosecutor investigating Watergate.

›National Energy Act –Carter taxed automobiles, removed price controls on oil, & tax credits on new energy. ›Human rights –Rights & freedoms, such as those named in the Declaration of Independence & Bill of Rights. ›Camp David Accords –Agreement between Israel & Egypt in ›Ayatollah KhomeiniAyatollah Khomeini –Religious leader of Iran when 52 Americans were taken hostage from the U.S. embassy. ›“Death to America.”

›Silent Spring –Rachel Carson’s book demonizing pesticides (kept malaria thriving in developing countries) ›Earth Day –Day of environmental education, April 22. ›Environmentalist –Person who works to protect the environment from destruction & pollution. ›Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) –Regulates water & air pollution, toxic waste, pesticides, & radiation. ›Three Mile Island –Reactor overheated due to malfunction but no major damage.