FINAL Flashcards
Wrote a book called Silent Spring. It brought attention to the dangers of pollution. She explained how chemicals used to kill insects travel through the food chain and affects people’s health.
Rachel Carson
In 1978, Carter invited Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat and Israel prime minister Menachem Begin to the president retreat. After 13 days of meetings, the two leaders reached a peace agreement.
Camp David Accords
These talks led to a treaty limiting each country’s nuclear weapons.
SALT
Less hostile relations
Détente
The minor break in exploded into a massive political scandal.
Watergate
Antiwar feelings grew in June 1971 when the New York Times published secret government documents.
Pentagon Papers
Requires the President to get congressional approval before committing U.S. troops to an armed struggle.
War Powers Act
Reasons economics policies were based on a theory called supply-side economics.
Reagonomics
This theory calls for a sharp tax cuts with the goal of increasing the amount of money people and businesses have to invest.
Supply-side economics
Cold War dissolved what country
Soviet Union
Which eliminated trade barriers between the United States, Canada, and Mexico (Bill Clinton)
NAFTA
He lied and protected people who did wrong. In the (Executive branch)What did he do.
Nixon Abused presidential power
Less hostile relations
Détente
A system of laws requiring racial segregation
Apartheid
The political system in which all resources are shared equally.
Communism
It was used to increase involvement ( to cut and lower taxes).
Johnson’s policy of escalation
Where is the Berlin Wall located.
East and West Berlin, between East Germany and West Germany.
When was the Berlin Wall destroyed
November 9,1989
One of the leading Vietnamese nationalist and believed that only a Communist revolution could free the Vietnamese people
Hi Chin Minh
In the early 1950’s, five school segregation cases from Delware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C. came together.
Brown vs. Broad of Education
300,000 in armed forces, air-force and nurses
Women’s roles in WWII
One of many Hispanic Americans who worked to improve conditions. Formed a union called United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
Most people have jobs providing services, such as medical care or entertainment, rather than producing goods.
Service economy
American, British, and Canadian troops invaded France on June 6, 1944
D-Day
Computers and the Internet made it easier and faster for people at home, work, and school to access and share information.
Information Revolution
Congress and election of the President by popular vote of qualified citizens. A majority of 270 electoral voters is required to elect the President
Electoral College
Growing connections among economics and culture all over the world.
Globalization
A program of mass murder. Hitler and the Nazis had attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe in the name of Aryan supremacy
Holocaust victims
in 1928, in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. (Marge)
Landslide
Adolf Hitler gave Germany a scapegoat to blame for there problems. Hitler wanted more land and no one New how much he wanted that scared a lot of people. Hitler soon began trying to get people’s land. Germany dreamed of avenging their defeat in WWI. (Pearl Harbor).
WWII Causes
In a congress of United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representative. (Bills)
Legislative branch
President of United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the term of 4 years, and together with the Vice President. (Commander Army of Chief of the Army and Navy)
Executive Branch
Supreme Court and 9 Judges. (Laws)
Judicial Branch
Freedom from punishment
Pardon
First women to be a Supreme Court Judge.
Sandra O’Conner
