Nixon/Carter Administration and evaluation of Presidency
Which countries did Nixon improve relations with?
What is the China and Russia?
What popular type of music was born in the 1970s?
Disco
What is the supply-side economics?
The giving of money to the people of the US by cutting taxes
What was the nickname of the Strategic Defense Initiative?
Star Wars
Under what Presidnet did the Cold War end?
Geroge H.W. Bush
What was on the tapes that Nixon was hiding
Secretly recorded most conversation in the White House
What is celebrated on April 22, 1970?
Earth Day
What are deregulations
The government cutting a number of rules that businesses had to follow
What needed to end in order to resuce the Soviet economy?
The arms race
What destroyed the chances of Bush being re-elected
Taxes
What did Carter inherit when he became President?
The energy crisis
Why were the 1970s an amazing time to be a kid?
Video games were invented
How would cutting government programs help the economy?
It would give businesses a natural flow
What happened when many Eastern EUropeans countries had free elections in the 1980's?
Communist lost power in many Soviet-allied countries
Which dictator from Iraq decided to invade Kuwait
Saddam Hussein
Which countries did he negotiate a peace treaty between?
Egypt and Israeli
What show helped launch careers of many actors and actresses began in the 1970s?
Saturday Night Live Show
What were the argument against Suppy-Side Economics?
It only helped the rich and the poor suffered
When was the Berlin Wall breached?
Nov 9, 1989
How long did Saddam Hussein have to leave until multinational forces attacked?
January 15, 1991
Why was Carter's presidency considered a failure due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Failure to rescue the hostages
What caused for and explosion in music during the 1970s
Affordable Vinyl production
Arguments on cutting government programs
It hurts the poorest people in the country as the programs were helping them a lot
Who was the first man to win an election in Russia who isn't a communist?
Boris Yeltsin
How long did it talk to liberate Kuwait?
100 hours