Ford years
Ford finished the term of what other president that resigned due to the Watergate scandals.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Jimmy Carter was of this party.
What is the democratic party?/Democrat
Reagan appointed the first female supreme court justice and other judges like Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Chief Justice William H Rehnquist.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
True or False: In 1980 and 1984, Reagan won the election by a landslide.
True!!!
In response to the Soviet invasion of this nation, Carter boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
What is Afghanistan?
Gerald Ford served during these years.
What is 1974-77?
Carter won this year's election.
What is 1976?
Reagan referenced this index in conversations about American economics/standard of living.
He also asked Americans this question in the midst of a debate.
What is the misery index?
What is "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
In 1984, winning only his home state of Minnesota, what former VP for Carter ran against Ronald Reagan?
Formerly enemies in the Yom Kippur War, what 2 nations signed the Camp David Accords with Carter's diplomatic mediation in 1978?
What are Egypt (under Anwar Sadat) & Israel (under Menachem Begin)?
Egypt is the first Arabic nation to formally recognize Israel's right to exist
Ford ran as the Republican presidential nominee for his _________ term in 1976.
What is his first term? (unsuccessful bid)
Carter won this percentage of the popular vote.
What is 51%
This is the name of Reagan's financial policy which centered on cutting taxes on businesses so that they could prosper and then benefit the rest of the economic system/people.
What is supply-side economics?
{Nicknamed Trickle down economics, Reaganomics, voodoo economics by critics}
Ronald Reagan famously called the Soviet Union this 3 word phrase.
What is "an evil empire"?
Nixon initiated these agreements and Carter proposed a second round of them with Brezhnev---it was not passed due to the Soviets invading Afghanistan.
What are the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)?
These were 4 key issues of the Ford administration.
What are pardoning Nixon, inflation/recession, and an oil/energy crisis?
Economic turmoil characterized the Carter years. Due to the Energy Crisis, revealing our dependency on foreign oil, Carter formed this agency to try to get more American manufactured oil & nuclear energy.
What is the Department of Energy?
There was a recession in 1981 to this 1983, but after an initial slump, tax cuts allowed for this.
What is the longest continuous period of economic growth in American history?
This was the leader of the Soviet Union during Reagan's presidency. He signed the INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty after initially refusing to do so.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Civil war in these 2 middle eastern nations led to 2 separate US hostage crises.
What are Iran (Ayatollah Khomeini vs. the shah) & Lebanon (with 200 Marines dying in Beirut, Lebanon)?
Ford created this anti-inflation organization/campaign which asked workers not to seek higher wages and asked consumers to stop buying pricey products.
What is WIN (whip inflation now)?
In 1977 Carter signed this treaty, stating that the US would give this nation control of its canal by 1999---this was controversial as some Americans built the canal & it felt like we were giving up ground/authority everywhere
What is the Panama Canal Treaty?
Reagan sought the following rebuilding measures.
What are improving national defense, cutting back the size/cost of the bureaucracy, and offering hope and a clear way forward?
What is Reagan's issuing bombing attacks on Libyan terrorist blocks? (Ending Qaddafi's terrorist rampages)
These are the 2 Latin American nations the US intervened in to stop the spread of communism during their civil wars.
What are Grenada (mostly successful aid from US) and Nicaragua (contras/counter-revolutionaries/American-backed forces vs. Sandinistas/communists)