Chapter 25&26 Flashcards
Democratic government under Duarte that got supplies from the United States
El Salvador
Caribbean nation liberated from a Communist by U.S. forces
Grenada
Anti-Communist forces under Savimbi that got supplies from the United States
Angola
Nation where Soviet forces fought the mujahideen, and the mujahideen resisted Soviet occupation for ten years
Afghanistan
Nation where terrorists attacked the U.S. Marine barracks
Lebanon
Country that the United States bombed in response to terrorists attacks
Libya
Defeated in a hundred-hour war
Iraq
Only Vice President to resign for criminal reasons
Spiro Agnew
Only president to resign
Richard Nixon
Only unelected president
Gerald Ford
Ineffective “people’s president”
Jimmy Carter
Pro-West Shah of Iran
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Fanatical Islamic extremist
Ayatollah Khomeini
Charismatic leader of the Religious Right
Pat Robertson
Controversial Baptist leader of the Religious Right
Jerry Falwell
Winner of the 1980 presidential election, Republican president who revived patriotism
Ronald Reagan
Centerpiece of Reaganomics
Economic Recovery Tax Act
U.S. support of anti-Communist insurgents
Reagan Doctorine
Reduction in the size of long-range nuclear weapons arsenals
START
Elimination of medium-range nuclear weapons arsenals
INF Treaty
Space-based defense shield
SDI
First opposed and then signed by Bush
Americans With Disabilities Act
Originally drafted by James Madison
Twenty-seventh Amendment
Essentially a clandestine guns-for-hostages deal
Iran-Contra Affair
“Openness” in Soviet society
Glasnost
Cause of President Nixon’s resignation
Watergate affair
Cause of President Ford’s unpopularity
Nixon Pardon
OPEC’s attempt to hurt the U.S. economy
Oil Embargo
Attack on abortion laws
Roe V. Wade
Support for feminism
Equal Rights Amendment
Agreement between Egypt and Israel
Camp David Accords
Failed agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union
SALT II Treaty
Affected United States territory in Central America
Panama Canal Treaty
Cause of President Carter’s unpopularity
Iranian hostage crisis
Liberal democrat who lost by a landslide in the 1984 presidential election
Walter Mondale
Soviet leader who introduced glasnost
Mikhail Gorbachev
Republican vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1988
Dan Quayle
The hand-picked successor of Reagan
George Bush -HW Bush
Militaristic Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein
Allied commander in the Gulf War
Norman Schwarzkopf
Technical term for Reagan’s economic philosophy
Supply side economics
Anti-Sandinista guerillas in Nicaragua
Contras
Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential running mate
Geraldine Ferraro
The Russian term for “restructuring”
Perestroika
The project, Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, was also known by another name.
Star Wars
Label Bill Clinton coined for himself in the 1992 campaign by backing away from big government , high taxes, and free spending
New Democrats
President Ford’s main weapon in his standoff with Congress
Veto
Term was applied to the combination of high energy prices and oil shortages in the 1970’s
Energy Crisis
Economists say this happens when simultaneous occurrence of high inflation and high unemployment
Stagflation
Result when a nation imports more than it exports
Trade deficit
Faction driven by social and moral issues to join the traditional conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s
New Right
Essay: Explain why President Nixon resigned.
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.
Essay: State two ways that Reaganomics sought to enhance productivity and increase the supply of goods.
- Reaganomics cut taxes so that citizens would have incentive to earn, save, and invest.
- Reaganomics encouraged economic expansion by reducing government regulations on business and by providing corporate tax breaks.
What was the Carter Doctorine?
U.S. would resist any Soviet advances in the Persian Gulf region.
Main concern of Americans in the 1970s?
State of the economy.
What new issue caused people to join….?
Abortion
What factor… worsening energy crisis…
Environmental Movement
In what aspect of Reagan Revolution was he least successful
Balancing budget
