Social Change
Domestic Politics 1
Domestic Politics 2
Foreign Intervention
100

This government agency, created by Richard Nixon's administration, helps to regulate pollution and other potential impactful agents on our environment.

The Environmental Protection Agency

100

This president ordered Republican operatives to break into the Watergate Hotel in order to steal reelection campaign information from his rival, leading to calls for his impeachment.

Richard Nixon

100

This president (and former actor) was known for his optimism, communication, sense of humor, and intense opposition to the Soviet Union.

Ronald Reagan

100

This nation was broken up into different spheres of influence after World War II. Half was controlled by the United States and the other half by the Soviet Union

Germany

200

This union led by Cesar Chaves used boycotts as a tactic to further advance the rights of Latino-Americans, especially agricultural workers, in the United States. 

The United Farm Workers Union

200

Anti-war protesters in the 1960's came up with negative slogans in response to the Vietnam War and were highly critical of this president, who was appointed after the assassination of his predecessor. 

Lyndon B. Johnson

200

Head Start, a preschool program designed to give poor children, and Medicaid, government health insurance for the poor and disabled, were part of what 1960's social program?

Great Society

200

This economic theory is where a government controls all most parts of an economy, which can lead to shortages of consumer goods and services

Command Economy

300

This action taken by Malcolm X, leading him to develop a greater belief in brotherhood and cooperation.

His pilgrimage to Mecca

300

This policy, started by the Nixon administration, was created in response to a growing heroin epidemic in the United States.

The War on Drugs
300

This president had to resort to asking US citizens to cut down on travel and practice more energy conservation in response to a major gas shortage.

Jimmy Carter

300

OPEC's oil embargo during the Nixon administration can be attributed to what US foreign policy?

US support of Israel

400

Young, college-educated single or married women that held beliefs such as "Women should be able to focus on their careers" or "Women should be financially independent from men" would belong to what social change movement in the 1960's/70's?

The Women's Movement

400

This was the primary reason for Lyndon B. Johnson's decision not to run for reelection in 1968.

Unpopularity of the Vietnam War

400

This priority was the highlight of Bill Clinton's 1992 election strategy (not his campaign slogan).

Welfare reform

400

This foreign policy, practiced by most if not all presidents after World War II, is that belief that a country should get involved with the affairs of other nations to protect its political and economic interests.

Interventionism

500

This case from the Warren-led Supreme Court helped to establish a list of rights that MUST be stated to people as they are being arrested.

Miranda v. Arizona

500

This program, created by Richard Nixon, was designed to give more power to the states by providing block grants to states for different projects or initiatives.

New Federalism

500

NO POINTS!!!! Please review the following long answer question in preparation for the exam: 

"Describe the shifts from liberalism to conservatism to a moderate center from Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency through Bill Clinton's term in office."

Your answer should cover LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton.

500

Two years after this event, the North Vietnamese army would finally invade and take over South Vietnam.

Paris Peace Accords