Unit 10 Test Review

UNIT 10 TEST REVIEWGPS U.S. History

SSCG 25

Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush

First U.S. President to resign from office?

Richard Nixon


Nixon was successful in doing this?

Opening China


Nixon opened China by using this foreign policy?

Detente


Nixon was forming good relations with China in order to

use China as?

Leverage in negotiating with Soviet Union


Nixon tried to cover-up his advisors being involved in the

Break-in of the Democratic National headquarters?

Watergate Scandal


Watergate had this affect on the opinion of the U.S. people

about government?

Distrust of Government


This person became President of the United States when

Richard M. Nixon resigned?

Gerald Ford


This was Ford’s first official act as President of the United

States?

Pardoned Nixon


President Ford also did this while in office?

Granted Amnesty to Draft Dodgers


This President tried to bring peace to the Middle East?

Jimmy Carter


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


The Egyptian President that met at the Camp David

Accords?

Anwar Sadat


The Israeli Prime Minister that met at the Camp David

Accords?

Menachem Begin


The Shah of Iran (Friend of U.S.) was ousted by Muslim

religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini?

Iranian Revolution 1979


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-BushIranian revolutionaries invaded U.S. embassy in Iran and took

52 American Captives to retaliate to the Shah in the

U.S.?

Iranian Hostage Crisis


Conservative President in the 1980s that wanted to decrease the size and role of the federal

government?

Ronald Reagan


Economic theory to cut social welfare programs, give tax cuts

to business, and increase Defense spending?

Reaganomics


In short, the main goal of Reaganomics was to?

Stimulate the U.S. economy by cutting

taxes


In Reaganomics, this term refers to workers benefiting

from the increase in business profits?

Trickle Down Economics


This group of people was hurt by Reaganomics Budget Cuts?

Lower income Americans


Reagan’s biggest failure in international policy; Used profits from gun sales to Iran to fund a

rebellion in Nicaragua?

Iran-Contra Scandal


This individual accepted most of the blame for the Iran Contra

Affair during Reagan’ administration?

Oliver North


This was President Reagan’s biggest International success?

Collapse of the Soviet Union / End of

the Cold War


President Reagan became friends with Soviet Prime

Minister Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan gets credit for

this?

Fall of Berlin Wall


Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to implement

satellites in Space to be an anti-missile system defense was

called ?

Star Wars


Second President of the United States to be Impeached?

Bill Clinton


President Clinton and the leaders of Canada and Mexico

signed this to remove trade barriers between their

countries?

NAFTA


NAFTA stands for this?

North American Free Trade Agreement


NAFTA provided this to Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.?

Free Trade (tariff free) trade zone


Opponents (people who disagreed) with NAFTA believed

it would do this?

Send Jobs to Mexico / Harm the

Environment


This is what President Bill Clinton was impeached for?

Perjury


Perjury means?

Lying under Oath


President Bill Clinton was impeached for this because he

asked Monica to lie?

Obstruction of Justice


The importance of this was emphasized in the 2000 Presidential Election?

Electoral College


Twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, & the Pentagon were attacked

by Terrorists on this day?

September 11, 2001


The terroristic attack in 2001 is known as?

9/11


This Person was President of the United States during 9/11?

George W. Bush


U.S. Congress declared war on this after 9/11?

War on Terror


This terrorist group was responsible for 9/11 attacks?

Al Qaeda


Leader of the terrorist group was responsible for 9/11

attacks?

Osama Bin Laden


U.S. invaded this nation to eliminate Al Qaeda Training

Camps?

Afghanistan


This was the name of the invasion of Afghanistan?

Operation Enduring Freedom


U.S. invaded this nation to prevent Saddam Hussein from providing Al-Qaeda terrorists

with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)?

Iraq


This was the name of the invasion of Iraq?

Operation Iraqi Freedom

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