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.