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| Name President Nixon's domestic policy that shifted responsibility for social programs from the federal to the state and local levels. |
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| Name President Nixon's Attorney General. |
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| Identify the main focus of the Nixon Presidency. |
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| Name President Nixon's National Security Advisor during his first term. |
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| Name President Nixon's program to improve relations with the Soviet Union. |
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| Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) |
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| Identify the purpose(s) of the SALT Treaties. |
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| Symbolic step forward towad control of nuclear arms race; United States and Soviet Union were trying to achieve settlement of their difference by peaceful means |
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| Know the component of President Nixon's plan to end the war in Vietnam. |
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| Withdrawal of American troops; Train South Vietnamese forces to take over the combat role; Renew bombing; hardline in negotions with Hanoi |
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| Identify the reason(s) for the incident at Kent State University. |
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| Rioters firebombed an ROTC building, guardsmen openfired and killed four |
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| Name the person who served as a special prosecuter investigation the Watergate incident. |
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| Name the international oil organization most responsible for raising petroleum prices in the 1970s. |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
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| Name President Nixon's vice presidents. |
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| Spiro T. Agnew and Gerald R. Ford |
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| Identify the person appointed by President Ford to head the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). |
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| Name the loser in the 1976 presidential election. |
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| Name the purpose(s) that provided the framework for the Camp David Accords. |
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| For negotions rather than an actual peace settlement paved way for a 1979 treaty between these principal antagonists in the Arab-Israili conflicts |
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| Identify the country in which revolutionaries took United States diplomats hostage in 1979. |
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| Know which group attempted to strike but were crushed by the Reagan Administration in 1981. |
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| Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) |
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| Name the first woman ever nominated for the vice presidency by a major party. |
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