Answer:
President Bashar al-Assad
Explanation:
More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State. This is the story of the civil war so far, in eight short chapters.
Correct answer: Creating the Environmental Protection Agency
Explanation/detail:
The formal recognition of China and Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) were <u>foreign</u> policy initiatives (not domestic).
As to interest rates, during the Nixon presidency, the Federal Reserve chairman, Arthur Burns, had begun raising interest rates. In 1971, President Nixon exerted pressure on Burns and "the Fed" to keep interest rates down, but that only led to a decade of high inflation that caused other economic problems. So that was not a success for Nixon.
<u>About the Environmental Protection Agency</u>
President Nixon signed an executive order establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Subsequent committee hearings in the House of Representatives and the Senate ratified Nixon's order for the creation of the agency.
Environmental issues had been gaining much attention during the 1960s, and the need for oversight became clear. As Lily Rothman reported in a TIME magazine article:
- <em>An oil spill off the California coast in 1969 coated 400 square miles with slime and killed hundreds of birds. Scientists announced that auto exhaust was at high enough levels in some places that it could cause birth defects. The city of St. Louis smelled, as one resident put it, “like an old-fashioned drugstore on fire.”</em>
<em>- </em>"Here's Why the Environmental Protection Agency Was Created," <em>TIME, </em>March 22, 2017
Nixon's administration felt it necessary to take action to address pollution problems in the American environment.
The new industrialization made many strains on the perfect of popular government in light of the fact that many individuals lost their human rights. Individuals were chipping away at low wages and were played off each other to simply wind up noticeably heartless workers in assembly lines. Equality was lost between the rich and poor. The rich settled on every one of the choices which deciphered many existences of the laborers which were generally in negative ways. The fairness of ladies to men was all the while battling; ladies were being paid lower compensation and worked similarly as hard. Youngsters were given something to do, which insulted the communist changes. The development of the immense enterprises and extraordinary fortunes were extraordinarily fruitful with industrializing another America however made a danger to its own particular subjects. Numerous families lived in dread of getting to be plainly jobless. Laborers had no security and the legislature wasn't sufficiently speedy to authorize manages and to direct them towards specialists in production lines. The rule that America embraced were barbarous, yet at any rate there were numerous union work gatherings, despite the fact that they were shot down ordinarily, regardless we remember them today.