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10 Cards in this Set
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Stagflation
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Word created to describe the economic condition of high inflation and high unemployment of 1967-1973
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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The oil producing cartel that dramatically manipulated U.S. oil prices and supply in the 1970s
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SALT I Treaty
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Five-year agreement signed by U.S and Soviet Union in 1972 to limit number of ICBMs and sub-launched missiles
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Watergate Scandal
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Scandal created by Nixon's cover-up of the break-in at Democratic Party offices that led to his resignation
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Camp David Accords
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In this 1978 agreement negotiated by Carter, Egypt recognized Israel and Israel withdrew from Sinai
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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1970 federal agency that conducts environmental research, and sets and enforces pollution standards.
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Richard M. Nixon
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37th President. Pulled all American troops out of Vietnam; Watergate affair took place; only President ever to resign from office
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Saturday Night Massacre
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A name given to the resignation of the U.S. attorney general and the firing of his deputy in October 1973, after they refused to carry out President Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate affair
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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Militant religious and political leader of Iran who took power from the Shah in the Iranian Revolution, denouncing both the United States and the Soviet Union in the process.
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Rachel Carson
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A marine biologist. One of the first people to realize the global dangers of pesticide abuse (DDT). Wrote Silent Spring.
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