history test 5/22 Flashcards

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1
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who pardoned nixon after the watergate scandal?

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Gerald Ford

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2
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who did reagan defeat in 1980?

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jimmy carter

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3
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Iran hostage crisis

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iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans

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4
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stagflation/oil embargo

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stagflation - time with high inflation and uneven economic growth

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5
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Camp David Accords

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israel and egypt,

  • yom kippur war
  • carter vs sadat
  • israel gave back the Sinai penninsula
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6
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New right

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reagan was gonna bring back good, old america
- kkk
roe v wade brought conservatives back together because they didn’t want abortion to be legalized

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7
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conservative coalition/moral majority

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working middle class wihte american

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8
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Ronald Reagan

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9
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Assassination attempt

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10
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entitlement programs/funding

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11
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Reaganomics

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trickle-down economics, tax cuts for the rich

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12
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Supply-side economics

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SAME THING

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13
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strategic defense initiative (star wars)

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???

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14
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Sandra Day O’Connor

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first woman to serve on the supreme court of the US

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15
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deregulation/ price controls

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government was a problem, stopped wellfare programs

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16
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environmental issues

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???

17
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election of 1984

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Reagan won by a landslide

18
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AIDS

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gay-disease

19
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Mikhail Gorbachev

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1985: assumes control of soviet union - sought reforms

20
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glasnost

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open soviet society

21
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perestroika

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“restructuring” reform movement with the communist party

22
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INF treaty

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prohibited all US and soviet missiles

23
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Iran-Contra

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occured during reagan’s second term

24
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challenger disaster

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25
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Berlin wall comes down

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1989 - wall came down on the evening of a hastly arranged international press conference

26
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dissolution of USSR

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reagan put US in bankruptcy and the economy fell down

27
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election of 1988

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bush won

28
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George H.W bush

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  • persian gulf war
  • USA leads coalition to get Iraq out of kuwait “desert storm”
  • americans with disabilities act
  • “no new taxes” - then he had to raise taxes because due to deficit from reagan
29
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“Read my lips, no new taxes”

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phrase spoken by bush at the republical national convention

30
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Americans with Disabilities Act

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prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities including employment, transportation, etc.

31
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Persian Gulf war

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Operation desert storm
- iraq fighting with 39 other counties under US control???

32
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Essay topics r Reaganomics or Moral Majority

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Reaganomics - Tax cuts for the rich, Reagan believes in trickle down economics which is a theory that taking away taxes from the rich will help benefit large companies and will put more money into the economy which will eventually help everyone