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A June 1972 break-in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters led to an investigation that revealed multiple cases of abuse of power by the Nixon administration.
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The 1970s energy crisis was a period when the major industrial countries of the world, particularly the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, faced substantial petroleum shortages, real and perceived, as well as elevated prices.
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The second failure of the Cold War detente was arms control agreements with the Soviets.
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On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages.
