Only vice president to resign for criminal reasons.
Who is Spiro Agnew?
100
importing more goods than are exported.
What is a trade deficit?
100
President Cart'ers greatest triumph in which Egypt agreed to recognize Israel as a sovereign country which no other Arab nation had ever done before.
What is the Camp David Accords?
100
Faction driven by social and moral issues to join the traditional conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
What is the New Right?
100
Nixon's doing that caused the gradual drop in the value of the dollar abroad.
What is abondoning the gold standard?
200
Only president to resign.
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
High inflaction combined with high unemployment.
What is stagflation?
200
This treaty was suppoed to limit the numbers and kinds of nuclear weapons that superpower countries had, but did not pass after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
What is the SALT II Treaty?
200
Pat Robertson was the charasmatic leader of this faction and Jerry Falwell was the controversial Baptist leader of it.
What is the Religious Right?
200
Winner of the 1980 election by a 50.7% majority.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
Only unelected President.
Who is Gerald Ford?
300
This movement sought to warn about industrial pollution but hurt the economy by increasing demand on the nations energy resources.
What is the environmental movement?
300
Carter's most damaging defeat and foreign policy nightmare when enraged Muslims stormed the American embassy in Teheran, Iran.
What is the Iranian hostage crisis?
300
Legal/court battle over abortion laws
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
President Ford's main weapon in his standoff with Congress.
What is veto?
400
Cause of President Nixon's resignation.
What is Watergate affair?
400
A combination of higher prices for and shortages of American energy resources.
What is energy crisis?
400
Wanted to be known as the political "outsider" and the "people's president" but instead was mostly seen as an ineffective leader at the time.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
400
A bill in support of feminism that has never gained the necessary votes to become law.
What is Equal Rights Amendment?
400
This movements push actually worsened the energy crisis and hurt the economy on a whole.
What is the environmental movement?
500
Cause of President Ford's unpopularity.
What is Nixon pardon?
500
Crushed the U.S. economy and caused by our support of Israel
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
500
Allowed the U.S. and Panama to operate the canal jointly until 2000, when the canal would be handed over entirely to Panama.
What is the Panama Canal Treaty?
500
The political party of the winner of the election of 1980 for both the Presidency and the majority of the Senate, which showed the conservative mood of the 80s.
What is the Republican party? (Ronald Reagan)
500
Stated that the United States would resist any Soviet advances in the Persian Gulf region.