Final For Whole Year Flashcards
The author and the book was called….
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
The Democrats wanted someone who was untouched by the recent scandals.
Carter as President
Cater invited Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to the presidential retreat.
Camp David Accords
This theory calls for sharp tax cuts with the goal of increasing the amount of money people and businesses have to invest.
Supply-side economics
Became the new Soviet Union leader
Mikhail Gorbachev
She became the first women to serve as a Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor
Nixon’s foreign policy decisions would be based on practical American interests, not on moral or political ideals
Realpolitik
After Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Nixon appointed Michigan congressman as Vice President.
Gerald Ford
The economic condition of combined stagnant economic growth and high inflation
Stagflation
This group worked to control the production and sale of oil to keep prices high.
OPEC
These talks led to a treaty limiting each country’s nuclear weapons
SALT
Freedom from punishment
Pardon
In congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President.
Electoral College
American, British, and Canadian troops invaded France on June 6,1944
D-day
Nurses,factories,flew test flights and ferried planes
Women’s roles in WW2
Members of the Executive branch
President and Vice President
Members of Legislative branch
Congress and Senate
Members of the Judicial branch
Supreme Court Judges
How many Supreme Court judges
(9)
Am overwhelming majority of votes for one party in an election
Landslide
Most people have jobs providing services,such as medical care or entertainment, rather than providing goods
Service economy
Growing connections among economies and cultures all over the world
Globalization
- humor *exaggerated *caricature
Political cartoon
Because of totalitarianism, Germany wanted more living space, and Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
World War 2
WAAC, WASP, Rosie the Riveter, and women in factories, or noses at the battle field
Women in WW2
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
During the Vietnam War 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 Power Act
Nixon started it and what started it was the seemingly minor break-in exploded into massive political scandal
Watergate Scandal
Reagan’s economic policies
Reagonomics
Nikita Khrushchev demanded that the border be closed
Cold War dissolved this country
Nixon abused presidential powers
Executive branch
Was one of the many Hispanic Americans who worked to improve conditions. He formed the United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
A system of laws requiring racial segregation
Apartheid
Computers and the internet made it easier and faster for people at home, work, and school to access and share information
Information revolution
People who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property
Communists
It was to increase involvement (cut in lower taxes)
Johnson’s policy of escalation
Berlin Wall location and removal
East Berlin and West Berlin and November 9, 1981
North Vietnams Communist dictatorship was him. He introduced land redistribution plans.
Ho Chi Minh
Early 1950’s, five segregation cases Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together
Brown vs. Board of Education
