Us history: unit 11- modern america emerges

Led to an increase in defense spending which forced USSR to discuss dissarment

Strategic defense initiative

President carter helped netiogate peace between Egypt and Israel

Camp David accords

Slowdown in US economy in the 1970s due to inflation and deindustrialization

Stagflation

Due to perjury & obstruction of justice

Impeachment of bill clinton

Decline in international trade barriers led to outsearching of jobs

Globalization

The fall of the iconic east vs west, signified the end of the Cold War

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Kuwait was freed from Iraqi occupation

Operation desert storm

Mikhail Gorbachev policy to create a more open government ultimately leading to the fall of the USSR

Glasnost

First steps toward a healthy economy was cutting taxes for the wealthy

Supply-side Econmics

Advocated civil liberties be protected through laws and legistration

Liberal

Open trade routes between Mexico and Canada to help stimulate the US economy by breaking down trade barriers

NAFTA

Believe in small/limited government; reliance on private orgainzations to help people

Conservative

Resulted in the US withdrawing investments in south africa

Apartheid

Cause: OPEC oil embargo

Effect:Gas shortage

Energy crisis

In 1979, US allowed exiled Shah of Iran to enter US. As a result, Iranian militants stormed US embassy

Iran hostage crisis

Led to us invasion of Iraq and Afganistán and a temporary slowdown of air travel

9/11 attacks

Resulted from 2000 election which was “too close to call” demanded a recount in FLA to end

bush vs gore

Reagan admin secretly sold arms to iran to finance a rebellion against sandiatas in Nicaragua

Iran contra scandal

Caused Nixon to resign as president

Watergate scandal

Example of domestic terriosm by timothy mcveigh

Oklahoma City bombings

Increase in defense spending and tax cuts for wealthy

Reagan revolution

Limited first amendments after 9/11

Patriots act of 2001

Nixon revered integration policies to gain support of southern voters

Southern strategy

Court decision that’s signified no person was above the law

US vs Nixon