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A policy transferring federal responsibility to state and local governments through revenue sharing.
What is New Federalism?
This promised greater cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe.
What was the Helsinki Accords?
This was the firing and resignation of top Justice Department members.
What is the Saturday Night Massacre?
This was a conservative critique of Affirmative Action.
What was reverse discrimination?
Pardoning Nixon was this president's most controversial act.
Who was Gerald Ford?
Jimmy Carter put an emphasis on human rights in foreign policy by:
What is cutting off military aid to countries for human rights abuses even if they were 'friends' to the US?
This group mobilized evangelical and fundamentalist Christians.
What was the Moral Majority?
She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court (appointed by Reagan).
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
This is high inflation and high unemployment.
What is stagflation?
This was the US's foreign policy guided by Nixon and Kissinger during the 1970s.
What is realpolitik?
Budget cuts, tax cuts, and increased defense spending were characteristics of this economic policy named for a president.
What is Reaganomics?
Conservatives objected to this plan because it created dependency while liberals thought it provided too little aid.
What is the Family Assistance Plan?
This policy issue caused major public debate when it required students to be reassigned schools to achieve racial balance.
What is forced busing?
This happened to the national debt during Reagan's first term.
What is the national debt doubled?
This was a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt brought together by President Carter.
What was the Camp David Accords?
His trip to China was significant because it marked the first US presidential trip to Communist China.
Who is Richard Nixon?
What are the 1992 LA Riots?
Appealing to Southern conservative Democrats upset about civil rights policies.
What is Nixon's Southern Strategy?
This was the goal of the break in at DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
What was steal and photograph documents and hide bugs for political gain?
Operation Desert Storm was a major foreign policy event during his presidency.
Who was George H.W. Bush?
These are programs that provided guaranteed benefits to particular groups.
What are entitlement programs?
The purpose of this treaty with the USSR was to limit the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
What is SALT I?
This Act taxed gas guzzling cars and removed price controls on domestic oil and gas.
What is Carter's National Energy Act?
This is the economic theory was closely associated with Reagan's tax cuts.
What is supply side economics?
The release of edited transcripts and the demand for the Nixon tapes led to this.
What is the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to surrender the tapes?