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Chapter 30
8th Grade SS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were two positive changes that took place during Richard Nixon’ s time as President? | 1. Ended the Cold War by going to Russia and helping to heal relations with this country. 2.Renewed relations with Communist China- He saw that there was this enormous nation that we had had no relations with for a decade and that it was counterproducti |
| What is Watergate? | A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President |
| What is Title IX? | Education Amendments Act of 1972 : No discrimination under the education programs or federal financial assistance based on gender. |
| What is affirmative action? | a policy in which an individual's color, race, sex, religion or national origin are taken into account to increase opportunities provided to an underrepresented part of society. |
| Iran Hostage Crisis | On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. |
| Reaganomics | The four main ideas were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and tighten the money supply in order to reduce inflation. |
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