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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

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

• Detente
• triangulation
• brinkmanship
• mutually assured destruction

What was the purpose of SALT 1?

• To increase the production of nuclear weapons

• To decrease production of ICBM's

• To limit peace talks between the United States and China

• To end the Vietnam War for a limited period

To normalize relations with the USSR Nixon went to what country first?

• Iran

• Victoria, Texas

• China

• Israel

What actions did the U.S government take in order to oversee environmental issues?

• Community Reinvestment Act & Clean Air Act

• Clean Water Act, S.A.L.T, & Camp David Accords

• Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, & Clean Air Act

• Clean Air Act, Peace through Strength, & Clean Water Act

The right of the president and other high-ranking executive officers to refuse to testify before Congress or a court

• Executive Privilege
• Executive Order
• Executive Agreement
• Impound

The cutting back of federal regulation of industry

• environmental protection agency

• strategic defense industry

• raeganomics

• deregulation

Nixon won the support of the southern democrats in 1968 by promising to what?

• Calm Americans about the cold war

• Appoint a Southerner to the Supreme Court

• issuing more government bonds

• By increasing the two things that you cant avoid, taxes and death

This region is known as the ________________due to a decline in manufacturing

• Wheat Belt
• Sun Belt
• Cotton Belt
• Rust Belt

Which president pardoned Richard Nixon?

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

• Lyndon B. Johnson