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Chapter 25&26 Flashcards

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Democratic government under Duarte that got supplies from the United States

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El Salvador

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Caribbean nation liberated from a Communist by U.S. forces

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Grenada

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Anti-Communist forces under Savimbi that got supplies from the United States

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Angola

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Nation where Soviet forces fought the mujahideen, and the mujahideen resisted Soviet occupation for ten years

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Afghanistan

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Nation where terrorists attacked the U.S. Marine barracks

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Lebanon

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Country that the United States bombed in response to terrorists attacks

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Libya

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Defeated in a hundred-hour war

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Iraq

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Only Vice President to resign for criminal reasons

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Spiro Agnew

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Only president to resign

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Richard Nixon

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Only unelected president

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Gerald Ford

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Ineffective “people’s president”

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Jimmy Carter

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Pro-West Shah of Iran

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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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Fanatical Islamic extremist

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Charismatic leader of the Religious Right

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Pat Robertson

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Controversial Baptist leader of the Religious Right

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Jerry Falwell

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Winner of the 1980 presidential election, Republican president who revived patriotism

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Ronald Reagan

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Centerpiece of Reaganomics

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Economic Recovery Tax Act

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U.S. support of anti-Communist insurgents

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Reagan Doctorine

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Reduction in the size of long-range nuclear weapons arsenals

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START

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Elimination of medium-range nuclear weapons arsenals

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INF Treaty

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Space-based defense shield

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SDI

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First opposed and then signed by Bush

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Americans With Disabilities Act

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Originally drafted by James Madison

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Twenty-seventh Amendment

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Essentially a clandestine guns-for-hostages deal

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Iran-Contra Affair

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“Openness” in Soviet society

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Glasnost

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Cause of President Nixon’s resignation

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Watergate affair

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Cause of President Ford’s unpopularity

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Nixon Pardon

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OPEC’s attempt to hurt the U.S. economy

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Oil Embargo

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Attack on abortion laws

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Roe V. Wade

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Support for feminism

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Agreement between Egypt and Israel

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Camp David Accords

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Failed agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union

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SALT II Treaty

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Affected United States territory in Central America

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Panama Canal Treaty

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Cause of President Carter’s unpopularity

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Iranian hostage crisis

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Liberal democrat who lost by a landslide in the 1984 presidential election

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Walter Mondale

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Soviet leader who introduced glasnost

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Republican vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1988

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Dan Quayle

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The hand-picked successor of Reagan

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George Bush -HW Bush

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Militaristic Iraqi dictator

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Saddam Hussein

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Allied commander in the Gulf War

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Norman Schwarzkopf

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Technical term for Reagan’s economic philosophy

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Supply side economics

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Anti-Sandinista guerillas in Nicaragua

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Contras

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Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential running mate

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Geraldine Ferraro

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The Russian term for “restructuring”

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Perestroika

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The project, Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, was also known by another name.

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Star Wars

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Label Bill Clinton coined for himself in the 1992 campaign by backing away from big government , high taxes, and free spending

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New Democrats

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President Ford’s main weapon in his standoff with Congress

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Veto

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Term was applied to the combination of high energy prices and oil shortages in the 1970’s

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Energy Crisis

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Economists say this happens when simultaneous occurrence of high inflation and high unemployment

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Stagflation

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Result when a nation imports more than it exports

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Trade deficit

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Faction driven by social and moral issues to join the traditional conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s

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New Right

52
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Essay: Explain why President Nixon resigned.

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The Supreme Court ruled that Nixon must release all the taped conversations from his office. The previously unreleased tapes showed that although the president had known about the watergate break in beforehand, he had participated in attempts to cover up the involvement of his White House subordinates. With impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate a virtual certainty in the Democrat controlled Congress, Nixon chose to resign.

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Essay: State two ways that Reaganomics sought to enhance productivity and increase the supply of goods.

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  1. Reaganomics cut taxes so that citizens would have incentive to earn, save, and invest.
  2. Reaganomics encouraged economic expansion by reducing government regulations on business and by providing corporate tax breaks.
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What was the Carter Doctorine?

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U.S. would resist any Soviet advances in the Persian Gulf region.

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Main concern of Americans in the 1970s?

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State of the economy.

56
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What new issue caused people to join….?

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Abortion

57
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What factor… worsening energy crisis…

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Environmental Movement

58
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In what aspect of Reagan Revolution was he least successful

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Balancing budget

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