Nixon Administration
The scandal Nixon is associated with that involved a hotel break-in, a coverup, and some tapes
Watergate
Negotiation that Carter succeeded in
Panama Treaty
Nickname for Reagan's economic plan
Reaganomics
Two notable figures
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
Line Bush is famous for, which also comes back to bite him later on
Read my lips, no new taxes
The country that Nixon visited as a way to improve relations with them
China
Problems Carter inherited during his presidency
Energy crisis / Economic issues (Inflation) /
The process of cutting taxes so people have more money to invest in banks, who could then loan money to jobs, which opens up more jobs
supply-side economics
Reagans system to defend against a Soviet missile
Star Wars
What agreement did the US and the USSR come to
Reduction of nuclear weapons
The end of Nixon's presidency
Resignation
Carters greatest foreign relations accomplishment, even winning him a Nobel Prize
Peace between Israel and Egypt
deregulation
Gorbachev's reforms
Glasnost (openness), and Perestroika (restructuring of the government)
Foreign Crisis of August 1990
Iraqi takeover of Kuwait
Negatives of Nixons presidency
Treason / Abused presidential power / Slow to end the Vietnam War
Event that ended peace between the US and the Middle East, which Carter failed to fix
Iranian Hostage Crisis
The third step in Reagans plan: it restricts the natural flow of business and made people dependent on the government
cutting government programs
Separated West Berlin from East Berlin, Reagan demanded that it be taken down. Put up in 1961 and taken down 1989
The Berlin Wall
set date for Iraq to leave Kuwait, they didn't comply causing a further issue
Positives of Nixon's presidency
Lots of environmental legislation / Signed Title 9 Amendment / Normalized ties with China
Event that Carter poorly handled, leading to negative publicity
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Arguments against Reaganomics
Made the rich richer and the poor poorer / pollution levels up / country resorts to deficit spending
Unintentional result of Gorbachev's reforms
Soviet Union ceases to exist
Iraq dumping oil into the Persian Gulf, as well as detonating explosions at oil wells. CNN had round-the-clock coverage
Persian Gulf war