LATE REVIEW POWERPOINT QUESTIONS
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In what year was Nixon elected President for the first time?
Describe “New Federalism”.
List three policies Nixon proposed to give power back to the states.
Who were the “silent majority”?
List seven liberal policies Nixon approved.
Why did Elvis want to see Nixon and what did he get?
List three Supreme Count Nixon appointees.
Describe what the UAW gained as a result of their 1970 strike.
What was the problem with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school
district?
What did the Supreme Court say about busing and segregation?
What did the 26th Amendment do? Why was it passed?
What did Nixon use to attack his “enemies”?
Who stole the Pentagon Papers?
Explain what the Federal Election Campaign Act did.
What did Roe v Wade establish?
Was the Equal Rights Amendment passed into law?
Describe what happened to Spiro Agnew, Nixon’s Vice President.
Why was the War Powers resolution law passed in 1973?
Describe the effects of the 1973 Arab Oil embargo.
What led to high inflation?
In what industries was foreign competition having the most effect?
In which parts of the U.S. were there the most layoffs and factory
closings?
Describe the purpose of the Arab oil Embargo of 1973.
What was the result for drivers of the Arab oil Embargo?
Describe the issues AIM was concerned about.
What happened at Wounded Knee?
What headquarters was located at the Watergate office complex?
Who did the arrested Watergate burglars work for?
What did the Watergate tapes reveal?
What was Nixon forced to do on August 9th 1974?
Describe the foundation of the Freedom of Information Act.
How did Ford immediately damage his presidency?
For which candidate in the 1976 elections did most of the southern
states vote for?
What was Carter’s foreign policy dedicated to?
Why was Allan Bakke denied admission to medical school?
What did Bakke claim?
What rose during Carter’s administration?
Where was there a nuclear accident during the 1970’s?
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Explain what Vietnamization meant.
Describe what happened to U.S. troop strength in Vietnam under
Nixon?
41. What did Nixon order in 1969?
42. Describe what happened at Kent State in 1970.
43. What happened to South Vietnam after the US withdrew its troops?
44. Define “realpolitik”.
45. Who was Henry Kissinger?
46. What did the U.S. insist was the”real” government of China?
47. What did Nixon reverse and what were the methods he used?
48. How did Nixon’s history of anti-communism help him change U.S.
policy toward China?
49. Define Détente.
50. Give four examples of how Nixon relaxed tension with the USSR.
51. Explain the purpose of the SALT I treaty.
52. What does ABM stand for?
53. What caused Russia to become more cautious?
54. Define “third world”.
55. Explain the Nixon Doctrine.
56. In practice what did the Nixon Doctrine amount to?
57. Why did Nixon dislike Allende and plot to remove him from office?
Who was Allende close with that most Americans hated? What
happened to Allende?
58. Describe what kind of leader Pinochet was and why the US supported
him?
59. In what area of the world did conflicts threaten world peace?
60. What happened in October of 1973?
61. Why did the 1973 war almost lead to conflict between the U.S. and
U.S.S.R.?
62. Explain the purpose of the MAD strategy.
63. What is a MIRV?
64. What did South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia all become?
65. What was the Mayaguez and what happened to it?
66. Who was Pol Pot and what did he do?
67. Who were Carter’s foreign policy advisors?
68. How did Carter and Brzezinski disagree on relations with the USSR?
69. Name the important waterway Carter gave away?
70. Name the action undertaken by the U.S.S.R. that caused a chill in
détente?
71. What weapon system did the U.S.S.R. begin deploying in Europe?
72. What was the one success of Carter’s presidency?
73. Who were the leaders of Israel and Egypt?
74.. Explain the camp David Accords.
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Name the event that turned the American people away from Carter’s
human rights policy?
Describe what brought the Marxist Sandinistas to power in Nicaragua.
What caused the U.S. to aid the Contras?
Where did Nicaragua turn for aid after the U.S. turned them down?
What was Carter forced to confront and what actions did he take?
From what nation would Carter’s greatest challenge come from?
What does “America’s Humiliation” refer to?
What happened in December of 1979?
What three things did Carter do to punish the U.S.S.R. for invading
Afghanistan?
What future president was in Reagan’s first cabinet?
What were two groups that supported Reagan?
Describe what Reagan’s supply side economics led to?
Define deregulation.
What happened to the national debt under Reagan?
Name the first female appointed to the Supreme Court.
When did AIDS start?
Name the teacher killed in the Challenger disaster.
Who were the two candidates in the 1988 Presidential election?
In what year were there the most bank failures?
Where was the focus of the Reagan Doctrine?
Which nation was the “evil empire”?
What did Nicaragua look like to the Reagan Administration?
Describe the Boland Amendment.
What message did the Grenada invasion send?
Why did Israel invade Lebanon in 1982?
What happened in Lebanon in April of 1983?
What race did Reagan reignite?
What did Lech Walesa want from the Polish government?
What did Reagan think SDI was?
Why did a new era of U.S./U.S.S.R. relations begin in 1985?
Explain the word apartheid.
Explain what “El Dorado Canyon” was.
Name the scandal Oliver North was involved in.
What important events happened in 1989-90?
Why did the U.S. invade Panama and capture Noriega?
What does the Americans with Disabilities Act do?
What is the goal of NAFTA?
Describe the results of the Los Angeles riots.
What was the original purpose of the world wide web?
Name two Clinton Supreme Court nominees.
Describe the purpose of the National Voter registration Act.
116. What was Timothy McVeigh’s motive for blowing up a federal building
in Oklahoma City?
117. What did the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996 end?
118. What was the result of Clinton’s impeachment?
119. Who was elected president of Nicaragua in 1990?
120. Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of ……
121. How many days did the Gulf War last?
122. List five reasons the Soviet Union fell.
123. Name the leaders who signed the Oslo Peace Accords.
124. Who was convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?
125. What broke out in 1995 in Kosovo?