American Involvement in the Middle East
Increase in oil costs raised production cost and inflation, paired with stagnant economy and high unemployment
Stagflation
Nation in which the US orchestrated the return of a government leader
Iran
Winner of the election of 1980
Ronald Reagan
Country that invaded Afghanistan
USSR
Wall that fell in 1989
The Berlin Wall
Region in which the US became involved due to oil
Name of the Iranian leader the US wanted in power
The Shah of Iran
What led the US to support Afghan resistance movement
Containment policy
Holiday on which the USSR was dissolved
Christmas
Country that the US supported since it's creation
Israel
Group which overthrew the Shah's government
fundamentalist Islamic group
American's concerns during this period
Economy and weakened status of the U.S in the world
Policy in which Reagan increased military spending-created military superiority
"peace through strength”
Mikhail Gorbachev
OPEC placed a ban on exporting oil to countries that had supported Israel
Oil Embargo(1973)
American ____________ was taken as a result of the government overthrow
embassy
Speech given which condemned the USSR as morally bankrupt, aggressive, and oppressive state, framing the Cold War as a spiritual struggle between good and evil
Evil Empire Speech
Group who succeeded in establishing control over Afghanistan in 1992
Muslim rebels
Restructuring the economy of the USSR to model Capitalism
Perestroika
Countries that the USSR supported
anti-Israeli Arab nations
US response to Iran's proposal to release the hostages if they gave up the Shah
US never gave up the Shah
Reagan won in all but ___ states during the election of 1980
6
Oil-rich sheikhdom on the Persian Gulf who Iraq invaded
Kuwait
More open government & freedom of speech
Glasnost