Nixon Admin
This was a scandal committed and covered up by President Nixon; he repeatedly denied having anything to do with the situation and it demoralized his appearance to the public
What is Watergate?
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President Carter successfully negotiated a new treaty over the __________ _______.
What is Panama Canal?
Ronald Reagan's main goal during his time in office was to fix the economy, so he came up with economic policies that were known as
What is Reaganomics?
What is Communism?
During the 70s, this was an emerging way to listen to music being that it was affordable (to produce and for consumers), capable of holding more than 4 tracks/songs, and gave artists more creativity
What is vinyl?
OR
What is vinyl records?
Nixon began mending relations and affairs with this powerful nation, to whom had not been accepted into the United Nations beforehand; he soon made a visit to this country and it was marked as one of Nixon's greatest accomplishments in office
What is China?
OR
What is People's Republic of China?
During Carter's time in office, the economy suffered as the prices on consumer goods were rising faster than the money we were receiving from our jobs; this caused unemployment to rise and meant our money was buying less than what we desired
What is Inflation?
Under another policy, Reagan tried to discontinue these as he believed they restricted the natural flow of business and made people less dependent; this action again hurt many people living in poverty
What is government programs?
When Reagan entered the office he designed a system, which involved computing and lasers, to defend against potential Soviet missile attacks
What is "Star Wars"?
OR
What is SDI?
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What is Strategic Defense Initiative?
Songs like "Hot Stuff" and "Stayin' Alive," dances like 'The Hustle' and 'The YMCA' and fashion like bell-bottoms, space dresses, white-collared shirts and denim were all apart of this genre of music that surfaced in the 70s
What is disco?
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Watergate was located in Washington, DC and was the ___________ headquarters.
What is Democratic?
This was a period of Carter's presidency in which the leading exporters of oil, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), were continuously raising prices and the main suppliers of oil, Iran, stopped shipping oil; this caused Americans to pay much more for gas than usual and people had to wait hours at a time to fill up on gasoline
What is Energy Crisis?
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*Hint: _____ v. _____*
Ronald Reagan was a _____________, in which he believed in personal responsibility, free markets and government freedom (limitations); those who couldn't wait to get someone else in power and opposed the views of Reagan were a _________.
What is conservative v. liberal?
Reagan gives a speech, regarding Gorbachev seeking peace, urging the Soviet Union leader to tear down a barrier that had prohibited peace from ultimately being reached; this barrier eventually fell in 1989 and soon many families were reunited
What is Berlin Wall?
An iconic show that began in 1975 and still premieres today, starring mostly famous actors and providing up-to-date social commentary
What is Saturday Night Live?
OR
What is SNL?
This was Nixon's "consequence," from the House of Representatives, in response to him concealing the tapes, surrendering the tapes with several sections missing and lying about/covering up the scandal
What is impeachment?
When the Shah of Iran is removed by force from office, a religious powerful leader takes his place and takes 52 hostages from the American embassy in Iran; the hostages are held for over a year and Carter's mission to rescue them fails
What is Iranian Hostage Crisis?
One of Reagan's economic policies he developed that would cut taxes and would create more jobs for Americans in the long run; any argue that under this policy, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer
What is Supply-Side Economics?
Gorbachev promised the Soviet Union a new era of reform expressed by openness and the restructuring of the government an economy
*Hint: _____ v. _____*
What is Glasnost v. Perestroika?
Allowed families to watch movies at home without going to the movie theater, even letting them see a film just a couple months after leaving the theater; also introduced people to concept of recording a TV program/show
What is VHS?
OR
What is Video Home System?
An "amendment" Nixon passed, banning gender-based discrimination in education
What is Title IX?
President Carter invited the leaders of Egypt and Israel to a presidential retreat and established these documents for peace, ending 30 years of war between to two countries; Carter earns the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions
What is Camp David Accords?
Laws for businesses were reduced by the government, as Reagan felt that eliminating many of the rules would free businesses into becoming more profitable; the environment suffered as a result of this policy
What is deregulation?
Reagan aided these countries in a civil war but with underlying reasons - key government leaders had approved of a deal that the U.S. would sale weapons to Iran in exchange for freeing hostages in the Middle East; the money the leaders had made off the dales, went toward the soldiers that supported the Latin American civil wars
What is Nicaragua?
AND
What is El Salvador?
During the 1980s, approximately 62 million of these video game systems had been sold
What is NES?
OR
What is Nintendo Entertainment System?