________ sought to guarantee gender equality through words.
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OPEC
________ lifted embargo in 1974 and quadrupled price of oil by the end of the decade.
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Chief Justice Earl Warren
________ dealt with many controversial decisions.
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Nixon
________ ordered an attack on Cambodia in 1970.
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Title IX
Prohibited sex discrimination in any federally funded education programs
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US Senate
The ________ repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and in 1971, the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, passed.
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Griswold
________ v. Connecticut (1965): struck down state law that banned the use of contraceptives but created the "right to privacy.
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Anti American Muslim militants
________ stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
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USSR
________ invaded Afghanistan on December 27, 1979.
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Philadelphia Plan of 1969
Required construction trade- unions working on federal payroll to establish "goals and timetables" for black employees
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Americans
War was generally fought by the lesser- privileged ________.
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Cambodia
________ was taken over by Pol Pot.
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Gerald Ford
The first unelected president
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Jimmy Carter
Won the presidential election with 297-240 electoral votes
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Carter
________ put an embargo on the Soviet Union.
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War Powers Act
Required the president to report all commitments of U.S. troops within 48 hours to the Congress and set a 90 day limit on those activities (November 1973)
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South Vietnam
________ fell to communist North in 1975.
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president of Egypt
The ________ and the prime minister of Israel signed accords on September 17, 1978 at Camp David.
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U.S. economy
Grew stagnant in the 1970s after economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s
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Nixon
________ imposed a 90- day wage freeze and took the nation off of the gold standard.
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Nixon
________ was opposed by George McGovern in 1972.
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Nixon
________ sent the national security adviser to China to encourage better relations while ________ himself went to Moscow.
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Nixon
________ urged America to stop tearing each other apart and cooperate.
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Nixon
________ divided Americans into his supporters and his opponents.
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Nixon
Urged America to stop tearing each other apart and cooperate
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Soviets
Made a deal with the U.S. in fear of a U.S. and China alliance with them making a deal for foodstuffs such as wheat, corn, cereals, etc.
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Feminist movement
Became energized and took an aggresive tone during the 1970s
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