1970's nixon

Richard Nixon helped to build better relations between the US and the two largest communist countries

• Syria and Africa

• Soviet Union and Japan

• Soviet Union and China

• Soviet Union and France

Oil producing countries that supported Egypt and Syria wanted to punish who for helping Israel

• China

• Russia

• United States

• Georgia

In 1972, Nixon's campaign workers broke into the Democratic Party headquarters in what building to steal information.

• Versailles

• White House

• Watergate

• Lincoln Memorial

What new foreign policy did Nixon adopt to ease tensions with the Soviet Union?

• Detente
• triangulation
• brinkmanship
• mutually assured destruction

OPEC was a group of mainly Arab nations that exported __________.

• Steel
• Coal
• Oil
• Lumber

Nixon's role in the Watergate conspiracy was made known by __________.

• Audio tapes that Nixon kept in his office.
• An FBI informant.
• Video footage
• Nixon's fingerprints at the scene of the crime

SALT stands for

• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

• Secondary Army Life Treaty

• Selective Army Limitation Treaty

• Strategic Allied Limitation Treaty

Which is an example of detente'?

• building the Berlin Wall
• blockade of Cuba by the US
• Soviet invasion of Afganistan
• Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union

Which statement most accurately depicts why president Nixon had to resign from office in 1974?

• He had an affair with an intern
• He pulled troops out of Vietnam in 1973
• He opened relations with China and the Soviet Union
• He led a criminal conspiracy from the White House, which mislead the nation

Which word means, "easing/lessening of tension?"

• Inflation
• Detente
• Stagflation
• Constipation