Honors U.S. History Midterm
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Economy spawned by the internet
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Dot.com
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Websites that function as a diary or notebook
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blogs
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Complete electronic circuit on a single chip of the element silicon
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Integrated circuit
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Doing jobs via a computer without going to an office
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Telecommuting
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World's first electronic digital computer
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ENIAC
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Put students to work: low income housing, teaching kids to read, environmental cleanup
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Americorps
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Lying under oath
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perjury
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Republican presidential candidate 1996
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Bob Dole
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Led a presidential task force on health care reform
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Hillary Clinton
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Required people to work in order to receive benefits
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Welfare Reform Act
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Result of immigration policy that favored close family members
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Migration chains
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Punished employers who hired illegal immegrants
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Immigration Reform & Control Act
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An increase in average world temperatures over time
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global warming
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Joined Canada, the U.S. & Mexico in a free-trade zone
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NAFTA
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Substances that can break down the ozone layer
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CFC's
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The idea that the world is becoming more interconnected
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Globalism
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Created to promote economic & political cooperation among nations in Europe
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European Union
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Policy of Serbs to brutally expel Bosnian Muslims from the region
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Ethnic cleansing
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Program that pardoned illegals allowing them to stay in the U.S.
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Amnesty
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Program of 1o proposed changes that got Republicans the House & Senate in '94
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Contract with America
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Gas in the atmosphere that protects life on earth from UV rays
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Ozone
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First computer to use icons that users could manipulate with a mouse
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Macintosh
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A founder of Apple computers
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Steve Jobs
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Independent counsel appointed to investigate Clinton
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Kenn Star
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When a government collects more than it spends
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Budget surplus
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As Steve Jobs & Stephen Wozniak were creating Apple, 19 year old Harvard drop out Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft to design PC...
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Software
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The Telecommunications Act passed in '96 changed the telecommunications by...
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Allowing cable companies to offer telephone services
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The dot.com bust happened when...
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Many unprofitable online companies went out of business
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On December 19,1998 the House of Reps passed 2 articles of impeachment against Clinton for...
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Perjury & obstruction of justice
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A law Congress passed that gave workers up to 12 weeks per year of unpaid family leave for birth or adoption of a child or a family illness..
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The Family Medical Leave Act
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Who led the congressional Republican in creating the Contract with America?
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Newt Gingrich
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The top 5 nations of origin for legal immigrants to the U.S. includes...
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Mexico
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A problem Clinton faced in trying to reduce the federal deficit was...
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Entitlement programs
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In the period after NAFTA passed...
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American workers shifted to less skilled industrial jobs
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Opposition to Clinton's health care plan came from many groups including small business owners who believed that the plan...
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Would be too expensive for them
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What was the result of the 1955 standoff over the new federal budget?
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The federal government shut down for lack of funds
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Those who opposed the U.S. joining the WTO worried that...
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The U.S. would have to accept the rulings in trade disputes that might hurt the economy
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The worldwide network of computers connected by phone lines, cable lines & wireless communications is called...
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The Internet
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In an unprecedented role for the first lady, Hillary Clinton accepted her hubby's appointment to...
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Head a task force on health care reform
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The Dayton Accords was an agreement intended to bring peace to...
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Bosnia
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Clinton's "impeachment" can be most accurately described by..
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Clinton could have been impeached on charges of perjury & obstruction of justice
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Wireless technology did what...
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Helped cell phones become popular all around the world
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In his first term of office, Clinton raised taxes because..
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Be did not want to cut entitlement programs
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Democratic presidential candidate in 2000
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Al Gore
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Consumer advocated & Green Party candidate
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Ralph Nader
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A piece of cardboard punched out of a ballot
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A chad
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Republican presidential candidate in 2000
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George W. Bush
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A law requiring annual standardized tests in school
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N0 child left behnid
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"The Base"
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Al-Qaeda
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Lethal bacteria
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Anthrax
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Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan
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Taliban
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Using violence against civilians to achieve a political goal
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Terrorism
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A law intended to help law enforcement track down terrorist suspects
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USA Patriot Act
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A coalition of Afghan groups that fought the Talibsn
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Northern Alliance
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Can kill large numbers of people all at once
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Country where Osama Bin Laden was hiding
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Pakistan
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Dictator of Iraq
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Saddam Hussein
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Majority of Iraq's population
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Shia Muslim
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Hurricane that devastated the Gulf Coast
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Katrina
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American military prison in Cuba
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Guantanamo Bay
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The state that determined the winner of the 2000 presidential election
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Florida
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Secretary of Defense who sent troops to the Middle East after 9/11
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Donald Rumsfeld
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The first black female Speaker of the House
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Condoleezza Rice
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The first female Speaker of the House
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Nancy Pelosi
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Agency that used wiretapping to monitor domestic calls to overseas locations
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NSA
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George W. Bush's VP
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Dick Cheney
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Government agency that responds to natural disasters
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FEMA
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Led to the spread of western ideas in the Middle East
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Oil industry
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To win the presidency, candidates have to win the majority of the...
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State electoral votes
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George W. Bush promised to improve the nation's public schools, reform Social Security & Medicare, build nation's defenses and to..
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Cut taxes
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the hand recounts of ballots in Florida (2000) was...
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Violating the equal protection clause
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Why did the United Airlines Flight 93 crash in a field in PA?
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Passengers tried to stop the terrorists
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What did some devout Muslims fear would happen as the contract between the Middle East and Western society increased?
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That traditional values & beliefs would be weakened
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The new federal agency created in response to terrorist acts is called...
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Department of Homeland Security
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One way which the U.S. responded to 9/11 was by..
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Freezing the financial assets of terrorists & terror groups
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In his State of the Union speech in 2002, Bush called Iran, Iraq & North Korea an "axis of evil" because these nations were suspected of...
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Developing weapons of mass destruction
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In 2003, which nations would not allow the U.S. to attack Iraq from their territories?
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Saudi Arabia & Turkey
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The Bush admin claimed that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay did not have the same rights as American prisoners as they were..
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Enemy combatants
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One factor that led to John Kerry's defeated in '04 was...
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His stand against the Vietnam War in the 1970's
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Bush appeared *blank* in response to the crises of Katrina
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detached
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After his election in 2000, George Bush pushed through an immediate tax rebate to...
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Prevent recession
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The presidential election of '04 revolved around...
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The war on terrorism & war in Iraq
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Americans responded quickly to the attacks on 9/11 by...
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Donating blood & collecting food/supplies
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The USA Patriot Act is an antiterrorist bill that allows the government to...
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Conduct secret searches of suspects, wiretap suspects & track internet communcations
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In the presidential election of '04, John Kerry's past involvement with what group hurt his standing with veterans?
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War
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Bush tried to reform the Social Security system by..
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Allowing workers to divert par of their income to private investment accounts
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Why did the U.S. attack Afghanistan & defeat its Taliban government?
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The Taliban supported & sheltered Osama bin Laden & al-Qaeda
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The treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay drew criticism because..
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The prisoners were not protected by the Geneva Convention or by U.S. Law
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Iraqi insurgents have used several tactics to fight coalition forces including..
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Sniper attacks & bombings
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Congress passed Bush's proposal for...
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Annual reading & math tests in public schools (no child left behind)
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Al-Qaeda is a(n)...
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Islamic terrorist group behind attacks against the west
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The government of Afghanistan was facing many problems including...
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Taliban insurgents staging guerrilla attacks & suicide bombings
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The U.S. policy of deterrence would not work against terrorists who might use WMD's because...
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It might not know where the weapons came from or whom to attack in response
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A movement founded by Jerry Falwell backing conservative candidates/issues
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Moral Majority
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The South & West conservative voting "district"
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Sunbelt
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Protestant minister with a notional following
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Billy Graham
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Counterrevolutionary group that fought the socialist government of Nicaragua
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Contras
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Treaty between U.S. & U.S.S.R. called for the destruction of nuclear weapons
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INF
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First woman to run for VP for a major party
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Geraldine Ferraro
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Young, ambitious & hardworking moneymakers
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Yuppies
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Selling large amounts of goods at low prices quickly to make a proft
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Discount retailing
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First video game
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pong
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Disease that weakens the immune system, lowering resistance to illnesses
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AIDS
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Group founded to stop underage drinking & drunk driving
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M.A.D.D.
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Openness; a principle of Gorbachev's plan
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Glasnost
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Tax paid by businesses & investors when they sell stocks/real estate for a profit
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Capital gains
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Laying off of workers & managers to become more efficient
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downsizing
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Restructuring of Soviet economy allows some private profit making
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Perestroika
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Location of pro-democracy demonstration crushed by Chinese Army
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Tiananmen Square
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Ending government controls & rules over pricing
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Deregulation
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Plan to develop defensive weapons nicknamed "Star Wars"
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SDI
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First woman on the Supreme Court
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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Soviet leader who introduced Perestroika
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Policy that supported guerrilla groups fighting communists
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Reagan Doctrine
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Testified during the Iran-Contra scandal
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Oliver North
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Island nation invaded by the U.S. in 1983
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Greneda
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Economic system of free-enterprise & profit making
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Capitalism
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People moving out of the city because of inner city issues
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suburban conservatism
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Unlike liberals, conservatives fundamentally distrust the power of...
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The government
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Who founded the conservative magazine National Review & helped revive conservative ideas in the U.S.?
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William F. Buckley
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Although liberals favor government intervention in the economy, they are suspicious of any attempt to use the government to regulate...
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Social behavior
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President Reagan encouraged the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates & asked Congress to pass a massive tax cut in what critics called...
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Reaganomics
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Reagan's first act as president was to sign an executive order eliminating price controls on...
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Oil & gas
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What did Reagan launch the largest peacetime buildup of in American history?
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The military
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The rebel group supported by Carter and later by Reagan...
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Mujahadeen
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Entrepreneur Robert Johnson created the first & largest black-owned company on cable TV known as...
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BET
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Irish singer Bob Geldof organized a series of concerts around the world called "Live Aid" that raised money to help starving people in...
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Ethiopia
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What began transforming broadcast news & entertainment in the 1980's?
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Cable TV
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During the 1980's, many people profited from investments in...
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Real estate & stock market
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While President Bush struggled to deal with events in Eastern Europe & China, a crises developed in...
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Panama
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Who sent his army to invade oil-rich Kuwait in August '90?
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Saddam Hussein
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In late December of 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of...
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The Soviet Union
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In May '89, students & workers held demonstrations for democracy that were crushed by the government in...
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China
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Liberals generally believe in...
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Free speech & privacy
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Supply-side economics believed that tax cuts would results in...
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Business expansion & new jobs
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Reagan followed the foreign policy of...
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Peace through strength
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Reagan believed that massive defense spending would..
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Collapse the Communist system
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Conservatives generally support...
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The split of government power between the state & federal levels
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The collapse of the Soviet economy was due to..
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inefficient central planning & huge expenditures on the arms race
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To keep the deficit under control, Reagan proposed...
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Cutting social programs
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Investigations into the Iran-Contra scandal revealed that Reagan had..
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Approved the sale of arms to Iran but not the diversion of money to the contras
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Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative called for...
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Development of weapons which could destroy incoming missiles
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The United Nations went to war in the Persian Gulf because...
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Iraq invaded Kuwait
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Nixon's proposal for reforming the nation's welfare system
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family assistance plan
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Granted federal funds to state and local agencies
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revenue sharing
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Nixon's effort to win a traditionally democratic region to the Republican Party
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Southern Strategy
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A plan between the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. to limit nuclear weapons
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SALT I
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Nixon's democratic opponent in the 1972 presidential election
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George McGovern
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Principle that the White House conversations should remain confidential to protect National Security
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Executive privilege
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Religious leader & head of the new government in Iran
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Historic peace treaty between Israel/Egypt that was brokered by President Carter
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Camp David Accords
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1st black ambassador to the United Nations
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Andrew Young
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A combo of high inflation and high unemployment
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staglfation
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called for companies and institutions doing business withe the government to recruit black employees
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affirmative action
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A militant group of Indians who viewed the government's reform efforts as too modest
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AIM
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Wrote Silent Spring, one of the most controversial and powerful books of 1960's
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Rachel Carson
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Created to set and enforce pollution standards, promote research and coordinate anti-pollution activities with state & local agencies
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EPA
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A nuclear facility where low levels of radiation escaped from the reactor
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Three Mile Island
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Washington Post reporter who broke the Watergate story
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Bob Woodward
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A housing development evacuated because of pollution
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Love canal
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Became Nixon's vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned
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Gerald Ford
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Placed an embargo on petroleum to the U.S. for aiding Isreal
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OPEC
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Ford's voluntary cut backs on oil and gas consumption
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WIN
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Recognized the borders of Eastern Europe established at the end of World War II in exchange for a soviet promise to uphold human rights
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Helsinki Accords
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Seized and occupied for 70 days by American Indians
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Wounded Knee
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Reduced tensions between the U.S. and its two major communist rivals, the U.S.S.R./China
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Detente
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Played a major role in Carter's loss to Reagan in 1980
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Coal, oil and natural gas are all..
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Fossil fuels
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What policy refers to Nixon's dismantling of federal programs in order to give more control to state and local governments?
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New Federalism
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To gain southern support, Nixon promised several things to the powerful senator of South Carolina...
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Strom Thurmond
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Nixon rejected the notion of a bipolar world, believing the U.S. foreign policy should reflect the emergence of a...
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multipolar world
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John Dean testified that the Watergate break-in had been ordered by...
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Attorney General John Mitchell
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Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign in disgrace when investigators found he had...
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evaded taxes
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Carter tried to end the recession and reduce unemployment by reducing the money supply and..
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Raising interest rates
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President Carter felt that the nation's most serious problem was its dependence on...
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Foreign oil.
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OPEC announced that its members would support an embargo on petroleum to countries that supported what country?
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Israel
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One goal of affirmative action was to provide blacks a means to..
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Acquire better job skills
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In the 1970's, civil rights leaders began to focus on providing blacks with good jobs and what?
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adequate education
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Supporters of nuclear energy hailed it as a cleaner and less expensive alternative to what?
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Fossil fuels
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What act established emissions standards for factories and automobiles?
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Clean Air Act
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Richard Nixon won the southern support in the 1968 election by promising to do what?
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appoint a southerner to the supreme court
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The Architectural Barriers Act mandated that..
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All new buildings built with federal funds be accessible to people with disabilities.
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Evidence to Watergate seems to show that Nixon...
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Ordered the cover up
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American oil companies in the 1970's found it difficult to make a profit because of...
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Government regulation of the oil industry
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President Carter imposed an embargo on he sale of grain to the U.S.S.R. as a result of what?
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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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A main purpose of Nixon's trip to China was to what?
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Encourage the soviets to more actively pursue diplomacy
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As part of SALT I, Nixon & Brezhnev agreed to..
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Exchange scientific information
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Nixon tried to avoid turning over the Watergate tapes by claiming that the tapes...
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Did not contain any info relevant to the investigation
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At Love Canal, residents experienced health problems because of...
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Leaking underground toxic waste
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The decline of American manufacturing was caused by...
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Old & inefficient manufacturing plants
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The 1978 Panama Canal treaties transferred control of the Panama Canal from what country to what country?
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The U.S. to Panama
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Until his resignation, Nixon served his second term as President for how many years?
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Almost two
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To make good on his campaign promise to fight crime, Nixon targeted what group?
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Antiwar protestors.
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Nixon's democratic opponent in the 1972 presidential election
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George McGovern
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Granted federal funds to state and local agencies
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revenue sharing
