!FINAL! Flashcards
(108 cards)
1
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President 1980-1988
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Ronald Reagan
2
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Used television to motivate Christians to be political
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Charismatic movement
3
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Sought to lower inflated prices and increase the supply of goods
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Supply-side economics
4
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Pledged America’s support to insurgent groups battling communism
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Reagan doctrine
5
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Anti-Sandinista guerrilla directed by the CIA
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Contras
6
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Used as a fueling station for Cuban communists
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Grenada
7
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Democratic candidate in 1988
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Walter Mondale
8
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First female candidate for vice-president
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Geraldine Ferraro
9
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Took charge of the U.S.S.R. in 1985
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Mikhail Gorbachev
10
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Shift from command economics to free enterprise
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Perestroika
11
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Openness of trade and ideas in Russia
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Glasnost
12
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Eliminated most medium-range missiles
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Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty
13
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Christian television: 700 club
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Pat Robertson
14
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53 Americans taken from the embassy in Tehran
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Iranian hostage crisis
15
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Took power of Iran after the fall of the Shah
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Ayayollah Khomeii
16
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Peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel
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Camp David Accords
17
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By 2000, the Panamanians would own and operate the canal
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Panama Canal Treaty
18
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Advocated women’s rights
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Feminists
19
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High inflation and high unemployment
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Stagflation
20
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OPEC nations increased prices 300%
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Oil embargo
21
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President Ford gave one to Nixon
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Pardon
22
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Cause of Nixon’s resignation
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Watergate Affair
23
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Nixon’s V.P. who also resigned
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Spiro Agnew
24
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Only non-elected president
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Gerald Ford
25
Democratic nominee 1972
George McGovern
26
National Guardsmen open fire on students
Kent State
27
Prove many lies regarding Vietnam
Pentagon Papers
28
Nixon's secretary of state
Henry Kissinger
29
Attempted to integrate America's public schools
Busing
30
Americans were quiet, decent, and respectable
Silent majority
31
Republican nominee 1972
Richard Nixon
32
Assassinated by Sirhan-Sirhan
Robert Kennedy
33
Leader of the civil rights movement
Martin L. King
34
Hippie movement- noncomformity
Counterculture
35
60,000 vietnam surprised our forces
Tet Offensive
36
Included amendments regarding voting and equal treatment
Civil Rights
37
Civil rights protest: I Have a Dream speech
March on Washington
38
Determined: separate is not equal
Brown v. Board of education
39
Unprecedented growth in populate post WW1
Baby Boom
40
Government agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations
Peace Corps
41
President during the Camelot era
John F. Kennedy
42
Guilty of Treason
Alger Hiss
43
Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person
McCarthyism
44
Stood from 1961-1989
Berlin wall
45
Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles from our shore
Cuban missile crisis
46
Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba
Bay of Pigs
47
Post Korea foreign policy regarding communism
Peaceful coexistence
48
Eisenhower's belief: communism in Asia
Domino theory
49
Code name: Fat Man & Little Boy
Atomic Bomb
50
Demand for Japan's unconditional surrender
Potsdam
51
The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by Hitler
Holocaust
52
Young men used for suicide flights in WW2
Kamikazes
53
Securing air bases on less-fortified islands in the Pacific
Island hopping
54
winter in the Ardennes Forest 1944
Battle of the Bulge
55
June 6, 1944- largest amphibious attack in history
D-Day invasion
56
Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa
operation torch
57
general of german panzer division
Erwin Rommel
58
nationwide war effort limiting various goods
rationing
59
December 7, 1941- Japanese attack on Pacific fleet
Pearl Harbor
60
FDR's program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry
Lend-lease
61
erosion f farm lands due to over producing in the 1930's
dust bowl
62
provisions given to the unemployed during the depressions
bread lines
63
share the wealth- socialism candidate
Huey Long
64
bank accounts insured by the federal government
FDIC
65
helped debt ridden farmers keep their land
AAA
66
created jobs and build roads, public buildings, and park
WPA
67
FDR's weekly talk with America via radio broadcast
fireside chats
68
FDR's promise to the American people after the Depression
New deal
69
fired upon by MacArthur drink the Hoover presidency
Bonus army
70
highest tariff in American history: destroyed foreign trade
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
71
Caused by manny factors, including the Crash of '29
Great depression
72
project to build dams along the Tennessee river
TVA
73
investors paid only a percentage of the cost of the stock
On the margin
74
buying something with the hope of selling it later at a profit
speculation
75
small monthly payments until item is paid for
installment plans
76
christians who fought to remove modernists from their churches
fundamentalism
77
chicago psychopath, eventually jailed for tax evasion
Al Capone
78
1921 American idol- sports in America begins
Babe Ruth
79
begins the science of psychology
Sigmund Freud
80
develops the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
81
the federal law making liquor illegal
prohibition
82
reduced german reparations of WW1 only slightly
Dawes plan
83
fear of communism in America
Red scare
84
club where liquor was served during prohibition
speak easy
85
Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vitorio Orlando, David Lloyd George
Big Four
86
German naton was responsible for the war and all damages therein
war-guilt
87
WW1- truce
armistice
88
WW1 American soldier- nickname
Doughboy
89
revealed that Germany asked Mexico to invade the U.S.A.
Zimmerman telegram
90
Wilson stated America would declare war if another passenger ship was attacked
Sussex pledge
91
German leader during WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II
92
Chased back into Mexico by John J. "Black Jack" Pershing
Pancho Villa
93
Submarine
U-boat
94
6-Apr-17
USA in WW1
95
Ideals for peace written by Woodrow Wilson
14 points
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Later becomes the United Nations, designed by Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
97
adapted learning so to relate to the child's interests
progressive education
98
create the airplane
Wright brothers
99
create the Model T and the assembly line
Henry Ford
100
defined and halted unfair business practices
Federal Trade Commission
101
peace between Russia and Japan
Root-Takahira Agreement
102
TR non-violent show of power
Great White Fleet
103
policeman of Latin American
Roosevelt Corollary
104
assisted of people of color in the early 1900s
NAACP
105
outlawed impure food
Pure Food and Drug Act
106
TR's promise to Americans
square deal
107
journalists who exposed abuse and corruption
Muckrakers
108
Mrs. Martin's favorite
Teddy Roosevelt
