AP US History -- Nixon & Watergate, APUSH: Watergate Scandal Flashcards

9610678390	Richard M. Nixon	Republican candidate in the election of 1968	0
9610678391	Henry Kissinger	Nixon's national security adviser/secretary of state	1
9610678392	Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education	Supreme Court case ordering a quick end to segregation	2
9610678393	Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education	Supreme Court case requiring school systems to bus students out of their neighborhoods if necessary to achieve integration	3
9610678394	Regents of the University of California v. Bakke	Supreme Court case restricting the use of college-admissions quota to achieve racial balance	4
9610678395	stagflation	simultaneous recession and inflation	5
9610678396	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries	group of Middle Eastern countries that refused to sell oil to nations supporting Israel	6
9610678397	détente	restrained competition between the US and the USSR	7
9610678398	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks	meetings that limited the number of nuclear weapons the US and the USSR could possess	8
9610678399	shuttle diplomacy	Kissinger's flights to the Middle East	9
9610678400	George Wallace	Independent candidate in the election of 1972	10
9610678401	George McGovern	Democratic candidate in the election of 1972	11
9610678402	Watergate	political scandal resulting in Nixon's resignation	12
9610678403	Committee to Re-Elect the President	group that used illegal methods to re-elect Richard Nixon	13
9610678404	Gerald Ford	Nixon's appointed vice president	14
9610678405	War Powers Act of 1973	act limiting the president's power to deploy troops abroad	15
9610678406	War Powers Act	President must report to Congress within 2 days of putting troops in danger in a foreign country, and there would be a 60-90 day limit for overseas troop presence	16
9610678407	North Vietnam, Cambodia	What 2 countries is the War Powers Act in response to	17
9610678408	The Plumbers	a plug leaks of confidential information and sent to steal files of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg who had leaked the Pentagon Papers concerning the Vietnam War	18
9610678409	CREEP	employed the plumbers; the committee that was trying to help Nixon get re-elected, often by illegal means like raising money illicitly, espionage, sabotage, and faking documents	19
9610678410	HR Haldeman	trusted aide/Chief of Staff; ordered to tell the CIA to stop the FBI from investigating the money trail for burglary -Missing 18.5 minutes of the Watergate tapes were of him and the President in the Oval Office	20
9610678411	John Ehrlichman	Chief Domestic Advisor; created the Plumbers and was, with Haldeman, the "Berlin Wall" in the White House = loyal aides to Nixon	21
9610678412	John Dean	White House counsel; helped in the cover up of evidence in the Watergate scandal by destroying Howard Hunt's safe contents; fired by Nixon after cooperating with Senate investigators and not completing his report of Watergate--used as scapegoat	22
9610678413	John Sirica	Ordered Nixon to turn over records of the White House conversations; persuaded many of the burglars to implicate the higher-ups that ordered the whole thing--sentence them really harshly and says you can make a deal	23
9610678414	Sam Ervin	part of the Senate Watergate Committee; became a chief part of the investigation; held hearings in which Dean and others testified	24
9610678415	Elliot Richardson	lawyer and politician of the President's Cabinet, then became the Attorney General and was ordered to fire Archibald Cox; promised Congress not to interfere so he resigned	25
9610678416	Archibald Cox	Watergate Special Prosecutor; after pushing for the tapes and the resignation of 2 attorney generals, he was fired	26
9610678417	John Dean	Who was the White House counsel that testified about the Watergate scandal and linked Nixon to the cover-up?	27
9610678418	Washington Post	Newspaper that won the Pulitzer Prize	28
9610678419	Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein	2 famous reporters for covering the scandal	29
9610678420	Mark Felt	"Deep Throat" -Provided information to the writers from the newspaper about the involvement that Nixon had with the scandal "Follow the money"	30
9610678421	Peter Rodino	chairman of the House Judiciary Committee	31
9610678422	Obstruction of Justice	withholding information and making false statements; interfering with investigation	32
9610678423	Abuse of Power	misuse of FBI and secret service and use of power to obtain confidential information from the IRS	33
9610678424	Contempt of Congress	disobey subpoenas for power	34
9610678425	Saturday Night Massacre	Elliot Richardson appointed Cox, but Nixon told him to fire Cox; people eventually fire Cox	35
9610678426	Bork	Who fires Cox?	36