Chapter 19, 20, & 21 Test Review

Major cause of this event was because of inefficient central planning

Wireless digital technology made it possible to miniaturize these devices

President Nixon's effort to improve relations with the Chinese government was known as

Software that enabled internet users to click links to jump from web site to web site

President Reagan's economic policy, high interest rates, low taxes

First African American woman to serve in Congress

Cartel that placed an embargo on petroleum to the United States

Author who sounded the alarm on the effect of pesticides

Less government in the economy would help it improve is the practice of...

Programs that pardoned undocumented immigrants, allowing them to stay in the United States

Chief figure in the Iran-Contra scandal who admitted to covering up illegal actions

IBM's first compact computer

The process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected

Chemical used in A/C units and Refrigerators

Special prosecutor who took Nixon to court to give up the Watergate tapes

Peace discussions over Bosnia

Housing development in New York State evacuated because of toxic water

Strategic Defense Initiative

Washington Post reporter who helped break the Watergate story

The Rehab act of 1973 stated that no person with a disability can be discriminated against

Decreased manufacturing and increased prices

Restructuring plan instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s to save the Soviet economy

Idea that high taxes weakens the economy by taking money away from investors

Conservative movement founded by evangelical minister Jerry Falwell

The Iran Hostage Crisis did what to Carter's election chances?

Historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt

The conflict that arose in 1991 due to Iraq invading Kuwait

Group formed in the late 1970s, were united by a common belief that US society had lost its way

The location of a pro-democracy demonstration that involved violence by the government

NAFTA

Program of proposed changes that helped Republicans win the House and Senate in 1994

H. Ross Perot ran for President in 1992 and wanted more deficit spending

First African American to make a serious run at the Presidency

Lying under oath

Policy of the Serbs to brutally expel Bosnian Muslims from the region...

Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman elected president

Civil Rights leader wh ofounded operation PUSH

Seized and occupied for 70 days by Native American Activists

The Reagan Doctrine was a policy of supporting guerrila groups fighting against communism

An approach to civil rights that emerged in the 1970s, related to recruiting minority students