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Unit 21
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| political scandal that resulted in the resignation of Richard Nixon | Watergate |
| event in which Middle Eastern oil producing nations refused to sell US oil in response to US support of Israel in 1973 War | OPEC oil embargo |
| a rise in prices | inflation |
| term to describe right-wing movement that lifted Republican Party to presidency in 1980 | New Conservatism |
| term to describe conservative changes made to government starting in 1980; smaller government | Reagan Revolution |
| resulted from radical Islamic revolution in 1979; Islamic students raided US Embassy | Iran hostage crisis |
| radical Islamic cleric and leader of Iran from 1979 until 1988 | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| evangelical and fundamentalist leaders who used TV to popularize their moral beliefs | televangelist |
| leader of Moral Majority; Christian fundamentalist | Jerry Falwell |
| political organization led by southern Baptists that raised $$ to defeat “liberal” politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) who they deemed immoral | Moral Majority |
| promoted large tax breaks for wealthy so as to stimulate investment and create jobs | supply side economics or Reaganomics or trickle down theory |
| removing rules from business | deregulation |
| made racial or gender based quotas illegal but said these could be one factor of many | Bakke v. California |
| reduced highest tax bracket from 70% to 50%; lowest from 14% to 11% | Economic Tax Recovery Act of 1981 |
| reduced highest tax bracket from 50% to 28%; lowest rose from 11% to 15% | Tax Reform Act of 1986 |
| Missile defense system using lasers to shoot nukes out of sky | Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) |
| Soviet leader who assumed power in 1985; started negotiations with US | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| protest that was crushed by Chinese troops in 1989 | Tiananmen Square |
| Liberated Kuwait from Iraqi forces that had invaded and threatened oil supplies to West | Gulf War or Operation Desert Storm |
| Gave government expanded ability to obtain information and arrest suspects | USA (United Strengthening America) Patriot (Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Acts of 2001 and 2003 |
| immigration law that made it illegal to hire most illegal immigrants | Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 |
| radical Islamic group ousted from Afghanistan in 2001 | Taliban |
| health-care reform bill passed in 2009 under Barack Obama | Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) |
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