Nixon to Now!
Key Terms to Make Sure You Understand
| Nixon |
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| silent majority | honorable
peace in Vietnam |
plumbers | Visits to China & USSR |
| SALT I & II | "new federalism" | school busing | Watergate Burglary |
| Woodward & Bernstein | Silent
Majority |
Ervin Committee | Saturday Night Massacre |
| the Tapes | John Dean | Detente | Ford's pardon |
| Ford |
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| OPEC embargo | Mayaguez
Incident |
Whip
Inflation Now |
Election
of 1976 |
| Carter |
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| Camp David Accords | Amnesty & the Panama Canal | Iran Hostage Crisis | Environmental problems |
| Soviets in Afghanistan | grain embargo | Election of 1980 | man of the people |
| stagflation |
ERA | Rust Belt | |
| Reagan |
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| Election of 1980 | Reaganomics | the ideology of conservativism | hard line on the USSR |
| Iran Contra Affair | Savings and Loan Crisis | Oliver North | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Election of 1988 | "Star Wars"/Military Build up |
Gorbachev | AIDS |
| Berlin Wall Part II | Moral
Majority |
Geraldine Ferraro | corporate takeovers |
| George H.W. Bush |
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| "read my lips, no new taxes!" | terrorism | Clarence Thomas |
New Drug Epidemic |
| Ross Perot | Manuel Noriega | Persian
Gulf War I |
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| Clinton |
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| Health Care Reform | Crises in Yugoslavia | graying of America | immigration issues |
| Contract with America | "It's
the economy, stupid!" |
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| Welfare
reform |
Technology
Boom/Bubble |
Whitewater
Scandal |
Lewinsky
Scandal/Impeachment |
| George W. Bush |
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| 9/11 |
TSA,
Patriot Act, Guantanamo |
War
in Afghanistan |
Gulf
War II, WMDs |
| "Bush
Tax Cuts" |
NCLB,
Faith Based Initiatives |
Deregulation |