Transcript unit 10 gps u.s. history test reviewx

UNIT 10 TEST REVIEW
GPS U.S. History
SSCG 25
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
First U.S. President to resign
from office?
Richard Nixon
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon was successful in doing
this?
Opening China
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon opened China by using
this foreign policy?
Detente
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon was forming good
relations with China in order to
use China as?
Leverage in negotiating
with Soviet Union
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon tried to cover-up his
advisors being involved in the
Break-in of the Democratic
National headquarters?
Watergate Scandal
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Watergate had this affect on
the opinion of the U.S. people
about government?
Distrust of
Government
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This person became President
of the United States when
Richard M. Nixon resigned?
Gerald Ford
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
This was Ford’s first official act
as President of the United
States?
Pardoned Nixon
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
President Ford also did this
while in office?
Granted Amnesty to
Draft Dodgers
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
This President tried to bring
peace to the Middle East?
Jimmy Carter
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
This was a meeting set up by
Carter with Egyptian President
and Israeli Prime Minister in
1978 to sign a peace treaty?
Camp David
Accords
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The Egyptian President that
met at the Camp David
Accords?
Anwar Sadat
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The Israeli Prime Minister that
met at the Camp David
Accords?
Menachem Begin
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The Shah of Iran (Friend of
U.S.) was ousted by Muslim
religious leader Ayatollah
Khomeini?
Iranian
Revolution 1979
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
President Carter allowed this
person into the U.S. to receive
medical treatment which
caused an outrage in Iran?
Shah of Iran
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Iranian revolutionaries invaded
U.S. embassy in Iran and took
52 American Captives to
retaliate to the Shah in the
U.S.?
Iranian Hostage
Crisis
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Conservative President in the
1980s that wanted to decrease
the size and role of the federal
government?
Ronald Reagan
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Economic theory to cut social
welfare programs, give tax cuts
to business, and increase
Defense spending?
Reaganomics
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In short, the main goal of
Reaganomics was to?
Stimulate the U.S.
economy by cutting
taxes
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
In Reaganomics, this term
refers to workers benefiting
from the increase in business
profits?
Trickle Down
Economics
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This group of people was hurt
by Reaganomics Budget Cuts?
Lower income
Americans
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Reagan’s biggest failure in
international policy; Used profits
from gun sales to Iran to fund a
rebellion in Nicaragua?
Iran-Contra Scandal
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
This individual accepted most
of the blame for the Iran Contra
Affair during Reagan’
administration?
Oliver North
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This was President Reagan’s
biggest International success?
Collapse of the
Soviet Union / End of
the Cold War
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
President Reagan became
friends with Soviet Prime
Minister Mikhail Gorbachev
and Reagan gets credit for
this?
Fall of Berlin Wall
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Reagan’s Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) to implement
satellites in Space to be an antimissile system defense was
called ?
Star Wars
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Second President of the United
States to be Impeached?
Bill Clinton
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President Clinton and the
leaders of Canada and Mexico
signed this to remove trade
barriers between their
countries?
NAFTA
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
NAFTA stands for this?
North American Free
Trade Agreement
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NAFTA provided this to
Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.?
Free Trade (tariff
free) trade zone
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Opponents (people who
disagreed) with NAFTA
believed it would do this?
Send Jobs to Mexico
/ Harm the Environment
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This is what President Bill
Clinton was impeached for?
Perjury
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Perjury means?
Lying under Oath
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
President Bill Clinton was
impeached for this because he
asked Monica to lie?
Obstruction of
Justice
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
The importance of this was
emphasized in the 2000
Presidential Election?
Electoral College
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Twin towers of the World
Trade Center in New York, &
the Pentagon were attacked
by Terrorists on this day?
September 11, 2001
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
The terroristic attack in 2001 is
known as?
9/11
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This Person was President of
the United States during 9/11?
George W. Bush
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U.S. Congress declared war
on this after 9/11?
War on Terror
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This terrorist group was
responsible for 9/11 attacks?
Al Qaeda
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Leader of the terrorist group
was responsible for 9/11
attacks?
Osama Bin Laden
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U.S. invaded this nation to
eliminate Al Qaeda Training
Camps?
Afghanistan
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
This was the name of the
invasion of Afghanistan?
Operation Enduring
Freedom
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U.S. invaded this nation to
prevent Saddam Hussein from
providing Al-Qaeda terrorists
with Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMD)?
Iraq
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
This was the name of the
invasion of Iraq?
Operation Iraqi
Freedom