History Quiz 16

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Across
  1. 1. federal government agency created by President Jimmy Carter to oversee energy use and production
  2. 8. – 200th birthday or anniversary
  3. 9. – break-in of Democratic headquarters and cover-up by Nixon’s election campaign
  4. 12. – event that occurred when 52 Americans were captured by angry Iranian university students and held at the U.S. Embassy in Iran for 444 days
  5. 14. – 37th President of the United States, only President to resign from office
  6. 16. – ban on trade between countries
  7. 17. Amendment lowered the voting age to 18
  8. 18. – man selected to become vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned; became the 38th president when Nixon resigned
  9. 19. (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)- machine that uses a large magnet along with radio waves to form images of internal organs and tissues
  10. 20. 1 and 2 – NASA space probes launched in 1977 to collect and send data on several planets as well as other objects in space
  11. 21. – meeting between President Carter and leaders of Egypt and Israel that resulted in a peace treaty between the two countries
  12. 22. French word meaning to relax tensions
  13. 23. foreign policy that the U.S. military would use force to defend itself against any country that interfered with U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf region
Down
  1. 2. pipeline built to transport oil from Alaska
  2. 3. – nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania where a nuclear accident occurred in 1979
  3. 4. – inventor of email
  4. 5. National Security Advisor to Nixon; worked with Nixon on détente policy
  5. 6. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) – agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear weapons the two countries could have
  6. 7. - vice president under Nixon who resigned after admitting wrong doing
  7. 10. event when Arab countries cut off shipments of oil to the United States to protest the U.S. assistance to Israel in the time of war
  8. 11. – 39th president of the United States; helped form a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel at the Camp David Accords
  9. 12. – an increase in the cost of goods but a decrease in the value of the dollar
  10. 13. 13- failed space mission to perform experiments on moon’s surface: astronauts returned safely to earth
  11. 15. – telecommunications company that introduce the cellphone