Describe the Following Terms, Events, Ideas

Unit 13 Topics Describe the following terms, events, ideas “Operation Rolling Thunder” consequences of the Tet offensive in 1968

1968 Presidential election – candidates, factors, results

Pentagon Papers

Nixon’s policy of “Vietnamization” of the war in Vietnam

1973 War Powers Act

Overall effects of the Vietnam War

Nixon’s foreign policy

Détente

Visits to China, USSR high inflation rates of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s

Watergate Scandal

Ford pardoning Nixon

Helsinki accords

Title IX

Actions of American Indian activists in 1970s

Carter’s election

Economy during the Carter administration Carter’s foreign policy

Camp David Accords

Iran Hostage Crisis

Boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games

Supreme Court Cases

Roe v. Wade

Milliken v. Bradley

Miranda v. Arizona

Bakke v. Regents of UCal

NY Times v. Sullivan

1979 incident at Three Mile Island the New Right

Moral Majority

“Reagonomics,” or supply-side economics

Reagan’s Foreign Policy

1984 Olympics

Nicaragua

Gorbachev – glasnost, perestroika Presidential scandals – Nixon, Reagan, Clinton

Significance of Geraldine Ferraro, Sandra Day O’Connor, Janet Reno

First (1991) Persian Gulf War

Clinton’s election

“new” Democrat

Clinton –

Oklahoma City

Columbine

Welfare Reform

Clinton’s Foreign Policy

Somalia

Yugoslavia

Bosnia

Clinton’s impeachment

Election of 2000 – candidates, strategies, factors, results

Bush – Sept 11 and War in Afghanistan and War in Iraq

“graying” of America since the 1970s immigration patterns, the period from the 1980s to 2004