1. Describe significant foreign and domestic issues of presidential
administrations from Richard M. Nixon to the present.
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2. Examples: Nixon’s policy of détente; Cambodia; Watergate scandal; pardon of Nixon; Iranian hostage situation; Reaganomics; Libyan crisis; end of the Cold War; Persian Gulf War; Impeachment trial of William “Bill” Clinton; terrorist attack of September 11, 2001; Operation Iraqi Freedom; war in Afghanistan; election of the first African-American president, Barack Obama; terrorism; global warming; immigration

3. Richard Nixon 37th President President during Vietnam
Watergate Scandal
Foreign Policy

4. Nixon’s policy of Detente
Release from tension
Improved relations between Russia and America
Nixon went to China earlier, made great strides in relationship, made Russia want to improve relations with US
7 treaties that prevented war and lessened production of weapons and opened trade with US
Jimmy Carter supported détente, Reagan ended it

5. Nixon at the Great Wall of China

6. Watergate Early morning of June 17, 1972
Several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate building
Prowlers were connected to Nixon’s reelection campaign (CREEP)
Caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents.
Information comes out, Nixon resigns.
Vice President: Gerald Ford takes office, never elected
Ford pardons Nixon

7. Gerald Ford 38th President Pardons Nixon
Continues Nixon’s foreign policies
Ended the Vietnam War

8. Jimmy Carter 39th President Peanut Farmer from Georgia
Continued Nixon’s and Ford’s foreign policy with Russia and China
Iranian Hostage Crisis

9. Iranian Hostage Crisis
November 4, 1979, Iranian students storm the US embassy in Tehran
Took 60 hostages
Jimmy Carter allowed Shah of Iran to come to America to get medical care for cancer.
Hostages set free January 21, 1981 after Reagan delivers Inaugural Address.

10. Iranian Hostage Crisis