Government & Scandals
This scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation.
What is Watergate?
This economic condition means high inflation and high unemployment at the same time.
What is stagflation?
This group controlled much of the world’s oil supply in the 1970s.
What is OPEC?
This movement promoted environmental awareness.
What is environmentalism?
This environmental disaster raised fears about nuclear power in the U.S.
What is Three Mile Island?
This president pardoned Richard Nixon.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This economic policy focused on tax cuts and reduced government regulation.
What is Reaganomics?
This agreement limited nuclear weapons between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is SALT?
This law created the Environmental Protection Agency.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency Act (or creation of EPA)?
This annual event promotes environmental awareness.
What is Earth Day?
This scandal involved secret arms sales to Iran and funding rebels in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
This idea suggests tax cuts for the wealthy will benefit everyone.
What is trickle-down economics?
This president negotiated the Camp David Accords.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This organization supported conservative religious values in politics.
What is the Moral Majority?
This crisis involved Americans being held hostage in Iran
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
This event decreased public trust in the U.S. government in the 1970s.
What is Watergate?
This economic theory is also known as supply-side economics.
What is Reaganomics?
This doctrine supported anti-communist groups around the world.
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
This issue involved equal legal rights regardless of gender.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
This economic crisis involved shortages and rising gas prices due to oil.
What is the oil crisis?
This Supreme Court case allowed schools to search students with reasonable suspicion.
What is New Jersey v. TLO?
This crisis in the 1970s was caused by OPEC raising oil prices.
What is the oil crisis?
This country was the location of a 444-day hostage crisis involving Americans.
What is Iran?
This system of racial segregation existed in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
This president is most associated with the “Reagan Revolution.”
This president is most associated with the “Reagan Revolution.”