Chapter 26
Phillidelphia Plan
Affirmative action
Sandra Day O'Conner
First woman appointed to the Supreme Court
Pentagon papers
Presidential involvement in Vietnam
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet leader
Iran-Contra Scandal
arms for hostages
In 1975, the Vietnam War ended:
as the only war lost by the United States
In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter pursued all of the following policies EXCEPT:
breaking off diplomatic relations with Pakistan.
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant:
brought a halt to the nuclear energy industry's expansion.
savings and loan crisis
caused by deregulation
The "Second Gilded Age":
could describe the 1980s, a decade where making deals was more profitable for companies than making products.
President Carter's foreign policy emphasized:
human rights as a diplomatic priority
The Reagan Revolution:
included cuts to government programs.
During the 1970s, conservatives:
insisted on more local control and resisted the power of the federal government.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the presidential race in part because he:
promised to never lie to Americans
stagflation
slow economic growth and high inflation
The Equal Rights Amendment:
stated that equality of rights under the law could not be abridged on account of sex. had originally been proposed in 1920 by former suffragists.
Ronald Reagan
strategic defense intiative
Geraldine Ferraro is best known as:
the first female candidate on a major-party presidential ticket.
Vietnamization was:
Nixon's Vietnam strategy to have American troops gradually withdraw and South Vietnamese troops assume more of the fighting.
What were the results of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia in 1970?
The invasion destabilized the nation and ushered in a murderous regime.