US History Chapters 21.3, 22.2, and 22.4

When did the Cold War end

1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved

How long were the hostages in the American embassy of Tehran held for?

444 days

Who asked Reagan to make a speech on behalf of his campaign.

Barry Goldwater

Deregulation

Carter agreed to support: A windfall profits tax that prevented oil companies from overcharging consumers.

Who was William Rehnquist

Chief Justice after Warren Burger

In May 1898, students and worker held demonstrations for democracy in

China

Department of Energy

Created by Congress under Carter, asked Americans to reduce their energy consumption.

Under Carter, what day was the Panama Canal given back to Panama?

December 31, 1999

During Johnson's time, what put inflation in by pumping large amounts of money into the economy?

Deficit Spending, for the VIetnam and Great Society Programs

Operation Desert Storm

Dozens of cruise missiles and thousands of laser guided bombs fell on Iraq, destroying its air defenses, bridges, artillery, and other military targets.

What did Carter impose an embargo on to the USSR and boycott because of poor relations with the Soviet Union?

Embargo of grain and boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Who is Sandra Day O'Connor

First woman on the Supreme Court

In 1954, what TV show did Reagan become the host of

General Electric Theater

Panamas Dictator that was overthrown and the US helped to allow them to have their own elections

General Manuel Noriega

Who was the millioniare Texas Third Party Candidate?

H. Ross Perot

In August 1975, President Ford met with leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact to sign the

Helsinki Accords

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced that its members would embargo, or stop shipping, petroleum to countries that supported

Israel

Reaganomics

Kept interest rates high, asked Congress to pass a massive tax cut.

What was the Iran Contra scandal

Marine Colonel Oliver North and other NSC and CIA officials testified before Congress and admitted to covering up their actions of illegally selling arms to rebels in Iran.

who did the Bush Campaign portray as too liberal and soft on crime?

Michael Dukakis

Where was the US dependent on oil imports from

Middle east and Africa

Who became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 and agreed to resume arms control talks?

Mikhail Gorbachev

Carter believed in the foreign policy of

Moral Diplomacy

What was the Strategic Defense Initiative

Nicknamed Starwars; technology that Reagan was funding. Tried to shoot nuclear missiles out of the sky.

What day was the Berlin wall torn down?

November 10, 1989.

While President Bush struggled to deal with events in Eastern Europe and China, a crisis developed in

Panama

How did Nixon try to stop inflation?

Put a 90 day freeze on wages and prices and then issued federal regulation limiting further wage and price increases.

President Reagan encouraged the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates and asked Congress to pass a massive tax cut in what critics called

Reaganomics

Screen Actors Guild

Ronald Reagan became president of this union in 1947

Boris Yeltsin

Russian president who defied a coup attempt by Communists and the Soviet military

Who sent his army to invade oil rich Kuwait in August 1990

Saddam Hussein

Rebels of Nicaragua

Sandinistas

What was the Reagan Doctrine

Supported guerrilla groups who were fighting to overthrow Communist or pro Soviet governments.

What did Supply side economist believe in

Tax cuts.

What did monetarists believe in?

That inflation was caused by too much money in circulation. Also, that the best solution was to raise interest rates.

In retaliation to the US allowing refuge of the Shah, where did revolutionaries storm?

The American embassy in Tehran.

Budget Deficit

The amount by which expenditures exceed income

Clinton was the first person from what generation to enter the White House

The baby boom

When were the hostages of the American embassy of Tehran released

The day Carter left office

What did the Helsinki Accords do?

The parties recognized the borders of Eastern Europe established at the end of World War II. In return the Soviets promised to uphold certain basic human rights, including the right to move across national borders.

Where was a massive student protest for democracy broken up in Beijing China, and many were killed?

Tiananmen Square

stagflation

a combination of rising prices and economic stagnation

Camp David Accords

a historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that was brokered by President Carter

inflation

a rise in the cost of goods

Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces

a treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States that called for the destruction of nuclear weapons

How did Reagan view the Soviet Union

an evil empire

Anti Sandinista guerrila force that the US funded

contras

Where did the profits from the sale of weapons to Iran end up resulting in a major scandal during the Reagan administration?

contras in Nicaragua

contras

counterrevolutionary group that fought the socialist government of Nicaragua

Andrew Young

first African American ambassador to the United Nations

Geraldine Ferraro

first woman to run for vice president for a major party

President Carter felt that the nation's most serious problem was its dependence on

foreign oil

grassroots movement

groups of people organizing at the local level

Robert Bork

his nomination to the Supreme Court failed after a bitter fight between Reagan and Senate Democrats

Two things that economist who emphasized the demand side of economic theory, including supporters of Keynesianism, did not think could occur at the same time were recession and

inflation

downsizing

laying off workers and managers to become more efficient

In December 1979, the Soviets found themselves fighting Afghan guerrillas known as the

mujahadeen

Reagan's first act as president was to sign an executive order eliminating price controls on

oil and gasoline

glasnost

openness; a principle of Gorbachev's plan

capital gains tax

paid by businesses and investors when they sell stocks or real estate for a profit

By what means were Communist rulers replaced with democratically elected governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria

peaceful revolutions

Carter tried to ease inflation by reducing the money supply and

raising interest rates

Ayatollah Khomeini

religious leader and head of the new government in Iran

perestroika

restructuring; allowed some private enterprise and profit making

rainbow coalition

term used by Jesse Jackson for a broad group of minorities and the poor

In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of

the Soviet Union

What did Reagan launch the largest peacetime buildup of in American history?

the military