Unit 8 review

This document started peace talks between the Arab nations and Israel.

What is the purpose of the Gen. Agreement on Trade and Tariffs?

Both Johnson and Nixon....

Which are the two goals of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

What two things did Johnson aim to fix with the Great Society?

Why did the US ultimately send troops to the Persian Gulf in 1991?

Vietnamese Nationalist fighting against the US in the Vietnam War (the enemy)

A state government cancels a law passed by the federal government

How did the transcontinental railroad impact the United States?

Why did the US refuse to join the League of Nations?

Trying to calm down Cold War tension and stop creating nuclear weapons

What type of jobs were created during the 1980s

This case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled segregation in schools is unconstitutional.

This book launched a new women's rights movement in the 1960s

Policy to promote equal ed. or employment for minorities previously discriminated against.

What was the dominant factor in foreign alliances in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

The onslaught in Jan. 1968 by N. Vietnamese forces on S. Vietnamese towns and cities

What foreign issue negatively affected Carter's presidency the most?

A product and that company controls price, production, and sale of that product, is called

This group wanted to ratify the Constitution and create a strong national government.

The resistance group fighting against the US troops in S. Vietnam and were armed by N. Vietnam

What was the economic climate like in the 1970s and the 1980s?

Why did the US get involved in the Vietnam War?

What was the purpose of the N. Amer. free Trade Agreement?

How did Clinton deal with a Republican Congress?

What led to the collapse of Communist Countries in Eastern Europe?

Under Reaganomics the economy was supposed to prosper when what happened?

How was the 2000 election decided?

This president's main goal was Manifest Destiny expansion

This president was elected first in 2008 then 2012 and passed the Affordable Health Care act

A southern Democrat who resent the support of desegregation of the Democratic party.

How did Pres. Obama deal with the nation's economic crisis?

The law would limit the president's power to send troops into combat zones