Unit 13 PLA Flashcards
(18 cards)
Twenty-Sixth Amendment:
Ratified in 1971, this amendment extended voting rights to Americans 18 years or older. The amendment was one example of efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to expand opportunities to participate in government.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
a federal agency established in 1970 for the regulation of water and air pollution, toxic waste, pesticides, and radiation.
New Federalism:
President Nixon’s program to turn over part of the federal government’s power to state and local governments.
Inflation:
an increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in supply of money
Stagflation:
an economic condition marked by both inflation and high unemployment
OPEC:
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: an economic association of oil-producing nations that is able to set oil prices
Impeachment:
The process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing
Watergate:
a scandal arising from the Nixon arising from the Nixon administration’s attempt to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex
Reaganomics:
the economic policies of President Ronald Reagan, which were focused on budget cuts and the granting of large tax cuts in order to increase private investment (p. 834)
Supply-side economics:
the idea that a reduction of tax rates will lead to increases in jobs, savings, and investments, and therefore to an increase in government revenue. (p. 835)
Deregulation:
the cutting back of federal regulation of industry (p. 837)
Realpolitik:
a foreign policy advocated by Henry Kissinger in the Nixon administration based on the consideration of a nation’s power rather than its ideals or moral principles
Détente:
the flexible policy, involving a willingness to negotiate and an easing of tensions, that was adopted by President Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger in their dealings with communist nations
SALT I Treaty:
a five year agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972, that limited the nations’ numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI):
a proposed defense system- popularly known as Star Wars—intended to protect the United States against missile attacks (p. 835)
Glasnost:
the open discussion of social problems that was permitted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. (p. 849)
Perestroika:
the restructuring of the economy and the government instituted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s (p. 949)
INF Treaty:
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty – a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union that eliminated some weapons systems and allowed for on-site inspection of military installations (p. 849)