Modern Era

Terms, People, Phrases

100

This President advocated the Family Assistance Plan

President Nixon

200

This is the policy used to ease tensions with communist countries like China.

What is Detente

300

This man would become the next president after Nixon's resignation

Gerald Ford

400

This man's pardon of Nixon might have contributed to his own political defeat

Gerald Ford

500

Explain the Iran Contra

Open answer.

Nixon

100

Nixon attempted to claim executive privilege in order to not reveal these...

What are the Nixon Tapes

200

This Act of congress removed the Power granted by the Gulf of Tonkin

What is the War Powers Act

300

The lasting effect of Watergate

Public cynicism about government

400

How was Nixon implicated in the Watergate scandal?

Two staffers were caught and confessed his involvement and the Nixon tapes

500

This condition in combination with high unemployment produces stagflation

High Inflation

Ford & Carter

100

Carter's foreign policy focused on this

Human Rights

200

Camp David Accords were an agreement between these two countries

Egypt and Israel

300

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" brought the effects of ____ to the attention of Americans

Pesticides

400

Why did Ford pardon Nixon after he became President?

To move the country forward and not damage the office of president more than it already had

500

This group had a major impact on oil prices in the 1970s

OPEC

Reagan and George HW Bush

100

Strategic Defense Initiative was an extremely costly

Missile Defense System

200

This President was known for his "Peace through Strength" foreign policy in the 1980s

Ronald Reagan

300

The name USSR stands for..

Union of Soviet socialist Republic

400

First female Supreme Court Justice

Sandra Day O'Connor

500

Goal of the program known as "Star Wars"

National Defense

Clinton and George W Bush

100

Third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election

Ross Perot

200

Clinton is the second president in US History to be

Impeached

300

This person was named as the head of President Clinton's task force on universal health care

Hillary Rodham Clinton

400

This state claimed the center of attention during the 2000 presidential election

Florida

500

President George W Bush created this office after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001

Department of Homeland Security