• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/51

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

51 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
as the US entered the 70's the ____ boom ended
economic
what were some reasons the economy went down in the 70's?
-vietnam drained money
-the great society drained money (put money w=in without adding goods-inflation)
-outdatted industry compared to Germany and Japan
what did the 26th amendement do?
lowered voting age to 18
although conservative, NIxon signed cost of living increases for ___ ____
-social security (also increased spending for medicare medicaid)-helped fuel inflation in 1970's
Griggs v duke power co. prohibited the use of intelligence tests to exclude ___ and ___ from jobs
-minorities and women
Bakke v Regents of the Univ. of Cali upheld what?
affir. action
what did Nixon do for the environment?
-EPA, Clean Air Act, Endangered species act
NIxon had a problem with the ___ ___ when he came into office
supreme court
engel vs Vitale prohibited ___ in school due to the separation of church and state (1st amendment)
prayer
Gideon v Wainwright and Escobedo v illinois both gave accused people what?
-the right to a legal counsil and a defendant even if the couldnt afford it
Bakke v Regents of the Univ. of Cali upheld what?
affir. action
what did Nixon do for the environment?
-EPA, Clean Air Act, Endangered species act
NIxon had a problem with the ___ ___ when he came into office
supreme court
engel vs Vitale prohibited ___ in school due to the separation of church and state (1st amendment)
prayer
Gideon v Wainwright and Escobedo v illinois both gave accused people what?
-the right to a legal counsil and a defendant even if the couldnt afford it
Miranda vs Arizona gave people the right to remain?
silent
roe vs. wade made what legal?
abortions
griswold vs connecticut gave people the right of?
privacy
after the formal cease-fire nixon continued to bomb what country?
cambodia
under NIxon, Ford, and Reagan the economy is in a ____ spiral
downward
what brought about the energy crisis?what did the energy crisis bring about?
-the embargo of oil by arab countries
-the alaskan pipeline
what was Exxon Valdez?
the worst oil accident prior to the Bp oil spill
in 1974 it became evident with the oil embargo that the US was susceptible to the?
world oil market
the watergate crisis showed that which system worked?
the system of checks and balances
the watergate scandal was a match between the ___ and the ___
executive branch and the legislative branch
what was the question involving nixon and watergate?
what did he know and when did he know it?
what is watergate?
the building of the democrats-holds all their files-it was one stop shopping for nixon on the democratic party
watergate was an abuse of ____ power
executive
when the senate demmanded NIxon's tapes of his phone conversations he denied them based on what?
executive privilege
nixon was the only president to?
resign
watergate shows that the _____ works!
constitution
what was Mao Zhe dong's reaction to Nixon being forced form office?
he's your best leader and you are kicking him out for lying?! i killed 90 million, Ya'll are retarded
who replaced NIxon?
his VP ford
Title 9 prohibited discrimination based on?
sex-equal rights amendment
Court ordered bussing of balcks caused what?
the flight to the suburbs
what did Cater beat ford?
he won because of his appeal to the american people "one of them" and his lack of connection to washington
what ruined the carter white house?
foreign policy failures-iran hostage crisis
Reagan gave was to a rise in?
Neo-conservatives
Reagan re-erected which economic startegy?
trickle-down (and he had the time to make it work)
what was the "silent majority"? what did it become known as under Reagan?
it was mainstream america that supported Vietnam, but it became the "moral majority"
why was affirmative action a double edged sword?
-blacks felt they were only there because of affirmative action
-but blacks did get into better institutions
reagan said the ____ was not the solution, it was the problem
government
reagan and conservative elements took a chainsaw to what?
government spending
what was "supply side" under reagan?
tax cuts-essentially was ment to open the us to investments....however $hina was now the place to invest
what was "star wars"?
increase US military expansion and a new arms race with the Soviets
shrinking the federal gov and reducing taxes dominated reagan's ___ term whil foreign policy dominated his ____
-first
-second
under Gorbachev,
glastnost= ____
perestroika=____
-openness
-restructuring
what was reagan's economic legacy?
rich got rich, poor got poorer-shrunk the middle class
Ward Cove Packing vs. Antonia & Martin vs. wilks both decreased the power of what?
Affirmative Action
what gives clinton the white house?
the failing economy under bush-"its the economy stupid"
who is the gayest kid at williamsville east?
CHRIS DIDURO