70s vocab-lexi

He was a committee member of the House of Representatives and Committee on Un-American Activities (to investigate "subversion"). He tried to catch Alger Hiss who was accused of being a communist agent in the 1930's. This brought him to the attention of the American public. In 1956 he was Eisenhower's Vice-President.

was the small "lunar module" attatched to the nose of Apollo 11. Seperated from the command ship after orbiting the moon to the agreed position. Landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Risks all the way until it landed was about to go into a football field sized crater with massive bolders but was safely steered away to a smoother spot by Armstong and successfully landed on the moon.

USSR was mad that Nixon went to china so they invited him and they had a series of talks about space, environment, health, science, and led to SALT talks.

Stagflation, government continued to pass expensive programs and increase the war in Vietnam, tax reform act of 1969, prices went up 14.5%, and 9% inflation in 1973

August 5, 1971 Nixon set a 90 day freeze to control the high prices, first president to ever do it

Nixon’s team sent fake letters to each Democratic candidate that were mean and signed by other candidates to break the party apart so he would win the 72 election

The white people felt discriminated now by all the laws passed that helped the minorities

A president now could not refuse to spend money that congress voted to spend (Made in response to Nixon)

Separate office to give Congress its own income and expense figures because they no longer trusted what the president gave them after Nixon

12% in 1974, he wanted to keep it under control and raise taxes and lower government spending but Congress hated him and made him lower taxes and raise government spending, making everything worse

Former movie star, 2 time governor of California, and strong conservative in the 1976 primaries but Ford beat him out for republican nomination

Navy then ran family peanut farm in GA after dad died, Senator 64, governor in 70, and won 76 election because of simple ways

we were now spending and importing more than exporting

He continued to use shuttle diplomacy and other tactics to solve problems in the Middle East, China, USSR, Vietnam, and Indochina while Carter was dealing with problems at home

Neutral Cambodian leader who was overthrown by Lon Nol

Communist group in Cambodia who the NV trained

The Khmer Rouge would take everyone from cities to the countryside to kill them, later a movie was made about this with the same title