US HISTORY FINAL

whip inflation now, a.k.a. win

not successful because ford wasn’t getting anything out of it and this was under Ford

pardon of nixon

ford

Nixon and the watergate had mad people do what

made people distrust the government

Nixon in the watergates tactics against enemies were what

gets in trouble for using coverups

SALT I treaty

gets super power nations to agree limit of nuclear weapon under nixon and foreign policy

realpolitik

under Nixon and wanted to see how much power nations had

OPEC oil embargo

cutting oil off from US to make shortages

Nixon‘s response to stagflation

wage controls and price controls for no stagflation so he didn’t support it

stagflation

high, unemployment and inflation under nixon

Southern strategy

Trying to get southern Democrats to vote for Nixon

New federalism

under Nixon and wanting to reduce the power of federal government under nixon

what was the nation Richard Nixon visited

China

Richard Nixon was a

detaunt

jimmy carter was based off of

human rights

Camp David accords

make peace with Israel and Egypt

Iran hostage crisis was what

It held Americans hostage and stopped after Nixon was president and allowed the shah who was the leader to come to the US

Rachel Carson in the silent spring

Author of a book about pesticides

first Earth Day

Was about pollution

new right

Group of people who helped get Reagan elected and were conservatives

reverse discrimination

White instead of black

what did Ronald Reagan increase?

The spending on military defense

Reaganomics 3 parts were what

there was three parts the budget tax that tax cuts in the increased defense spending

Deregulation

Main goals to the regulate federal government involved with industries and businesses

what was the strategic defense initiative?

Expensive missile system

Who was Sandra Day O’Connor?

First woman in the Supreme Court

mikhail gorbachev announced what

announcing his plan for soviet union

perestroika

Reconstruct the soviet government

what was Iran contra scandal?

It was an anti-communist that took money and gave it to the contras

Who supported communist

us

what were Bill Clinton‘s political views?

Was a conservative liberal

what was the foreign policy?

China increase in trade like things that they made in China under clinton

what was impeachment?

Under Clinton and was more about the politics

Global economy

how to compete with other people outside us

proposition 187

cutting off health and education benefits

economic trends in the 1990s

Downsize, corporations, and decline in manufacturers

NAFTA

Between Canada and US, they added Mexico

telecommunications act of 1996

had allowed companies to merge like TVs and movies

what were the Internet and dot coms

Coming together because of the Internet

genetic engineering

Prevent disease

social Security issues

afraid because the population is aging

election of 2000’s

was between George Bush and al gore and al gore said that he gave in and lost

George Bush

A part of 9/11 and was a challenge during president, and there was a financial crisis

order of presidents

One was Nixon two was four and three was Carter and they all led to stagflation

EPA

Devolution standards

conservative equal, what?

Tax cut