70s and 80s

Question 1

silent majority

Answer 1

A term used by President Richard Nixon to indicate his belief that the great body of Americans supported his policies and that those who demonstrated against the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War amounted to only a noisy minority.

Question 2

law and order

Answer 2

a strict criminal justice system, especially in relation to violent and property crime, through stricter criminal penalties.

Question 3

revenue sharing

Answer 3

As a result, small towns and counties, as well as large cities, received direct federal aid. Economist Walter Heller is credited with originating the revenue-sharing program, which U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed into law in October 1972.

Question 4

linkage

Answer 4

aimed to persuade the Soviet Union and Communist China to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for concessions in nuclear and economic fields.

Question 5

SALT I

Answer 5

For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals.

Question 6

leonid brezhnev

Answer 6

was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982

Question 7

john dean

Answer 7

as White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. In this position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover-up. He was referred to as the “master manipulator of the cover-up”

Question 8

archibald cox

Answer 8

oversee the federal criminal investigation into the Watergate burglary and other related crimes, corrupt activities and wrongdoings that became popularly known as the Watergate scandal. His investigation led him directly to the President himself, and he had a dramatic confrontation with Nixon when he subpoenaed the tapes the President had secretly recorded of his Oval Office conversations.

Question 9

whip inflation now

Answer 9

an attempt to spur a grassroots movement to combat inflation by encouraging personal savings and disciplined spending habits in combination with public measures, urged by US President Gerald Ford.

Question 10

opec

Answer 10

(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Question 11

stagflation

Answer 11

portmanteau of stagnation and inflation, is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high.

Question 12

election of 1976

Answer 12

jimmy carter wins over gerald ford

Question 13

camp david accords

Answer 13

agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours. Brokered by U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian Pres. Anwar el-Sādāt a

Question 14

iranian revolution

Answer 14

events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States and its eventual replacement with a National republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Question 15

iranian hostage crisis

Answer 15

2 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) after a group of Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Question 16

atari

Answer 16

video game developer

Question 17

keynesian

Answer 17

the various theories about how in the short run, and especially during recessions, economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand (total spending in the economy).

Question 18

reaganomics

Answer 18

called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.

Question 19

yuppie

Answer 19

or “young upwardly-mobile professional”) is a term that was introduced in the early 1980s and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual who is a “member of a socio-economic group comprising young professional people working in cities.”

Question 20

aarp

Answer 20

association of retired persons

Question 21

iran contra

Answer 21

Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[3] They hoped thereby to secure the release of several U.S. hostages and to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

Question 22

perestroika

Answer 22

a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning “openness”) policy reform.

Question 23

glasnost

Answer 23

”) Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. It was instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s and began the democratization of the Soviet Union

Question 24

lech walesa

Answer 24

retired Polish politician and labor activist.[3] He co-founded and headed Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.

Question 25

boris yeltsin

Answer 25

a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.