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15 Cards in this Set
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What was Roe V. Wade?
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court invalidated state laws that forbided women to have abortions.
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What did President Nixon call his domestic initiatives?
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New Federalism
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What is revenue sharing?
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When the government returned its tax recipts to local and state governments.
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Who did Richard Nixon appoint to supreme court justice in an attempt to steer the court in a more conservative direction?
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Waren Burgerr
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What was the most troubling problem in the 1970s?
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Inflation
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How did Nixon respond to America's economic problems?
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appointed federal economists to the federal reserve board
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What other measures did Nixon take to battle inflation?
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Put a 90day freeze on wages and prices in the US
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A period of time thats shorter than a depression that has a decline in business activity
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recession
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Organization of Countries Exporting Petroleum
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OPEC`
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What was the Arab Oil Embargo?
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When OPEC stopped shipping oil to Isreal supporting countries
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An economic situation involving business slowdown and inflation
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stagflation
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What is tri-lateralism?
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Western Europe, US, Japan 3 major powers
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What is detente?
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The relaxation of tensions between nations
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Placed limitations on the number, type, and deployment of intercontinental ballistic missles in 1972
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SALT 1
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What was the Nixon Doctrine?
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guidlines for handling the third world conflicts
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