Unit 10: 70's & 80's

What was one of the main goals of the Community Reinvestment Act?

• to decrease discriminatory actions of banks

• to fund school programs

• to stop socialism

• to fight terrorism

The Camp David Accords was-

• peace treaty to end the Cold war

• agreement between the U.S and Middle eastern nations to lift the oil embargo by OPEC.

• peace agreement negotiated by Carter between Israel & Egypt

• agreement to protect Middle Eastern countries from Soviet rule

Why was there an oil embargo on the U.S by OPEC?

• U.S sided with Egypt & OPEC sided with Israel in the Yom Kippur War

• OPEC sided with Egypt & U.S sided with Syria in the Yom Kippur War

• OPEC sided with Israel & U.S sided with Syria in the Yom Kippur War

• U. S sided with Israel & OPEC sided with Egypt & Syria in the Yom Kippur War

What actions did the U.S government take in order to oversee environmental issues?

• Community Reinvestment Act & Clean Air Act

• Clean Water Act, S.A.L.T, & Camp David Accords

• Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, & Clean Air Act

• Clean Air Act, Peace through Strength, & Clean Water Act

Provided swing votes in key cases and was the first female appointed to the supreme court

• Nancy Reagan

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Betty Frieden

• Susan B. Anthony

The resurgence of conservatism was a political characteristic of which era in the U.S?

• 70's & 80's

• 1990's & 2000's

• 1960's

• 1920's

In order to raise funds to support fighting communism in Nicaragua, Reagan's administration sold weapons to Iran in what is now known as the-

• Camp David Accords

• Iran-Iraq Affair

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Iran Hostage Crisis

An agreement on weapons control between the U.S & Soviet Union.

• Stagflation

• Peace through Strength

• Camp David Accords

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

Failed rescue, economic sanctions, and negotiations for the release of the hostages were-

• responses by Nixon toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War

• responses by Carter during the Iran Hostage Crisis

• responses by Reagan during the Iran-Contra Affair

• responses by Ford when he pardoned Nixon for the Watergate Scandal

The Watergate Scandal was responsible for-

• decrease in confidence in the U.S government

• the impeachment of President Nixon

• major tax cuts under President Reagan

• keeping the peace in the middle-east