Unit 13 Personalized Learning Assignment

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Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Ratified in 1971, this amendment extended voting rights to Americans 18 years or older.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

A federal agency established in 1970 for the regulation of water and air pollution, toxic waste, pesticides, and radiation.

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New Federalism

President Nixon's program to turn over part of the federal government's power to state and local governments.

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Inflation

An increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in supply of money.

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Stagflation

An economic condition marked by both inflation and high unemployment.

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OPEC

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: an economic association of oil-producing nations that is able to set oil prices.

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Impeachment

The process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing.

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Watergate

A scandal arising from the Nixon administration's attempt to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex.

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Reaganomics

The economic policies of President Ronald Reagan, which were focused on budget cuts and the granting of large tax cuts in order to increase private investment.

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Supply-side economics

The idea that a reduction of tax rates will lead to increases in jobs, savings, and investments, and therefore to an increase in government revenue.

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Deregulation

The cutting back of federal regulation of industry.

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Realpolitik

A foreign policy advocated by Henry Kissinger in the Nixon administration based on the consideration of a nation's power rather than its ideals or moral principles.

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Détente

The flexible policy, involving a willingness to negotiate and an easing of tensions, that was adopted by President Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger in their dealings with communist nations.

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SALT I Treaty

A five year agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972, that limited the nations' numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles.

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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

A proposed defense system- popularly known as Star Wars—intended to protect the United States against missile attacks.

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Glasnost

The open discussion of social problems that was permitted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

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Perestroika

The restructuring of the economy and the government instituted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

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INF Treaty

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union that eliminated some weapons systems and allowed for on-site inspection of military installations.