Unit 13 Vocabulary

An agency of the U.S. government that protects the environment by setting and enforcing national pollution-control standards.

• EPA

• FDA

• NRC

• OSHA

A joint federal and state program that gives health coverage to some people with limited income and resources.

• Medicare

• Medicaid

• Social Security

• CHIP

37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office.

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Gerald Ford

• John F. Kennedy

An agency of the federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination in the workplace.

• EEOC

• FBI

• CIA

• NLRB

One of America's greatest military commanders and the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• George S. Patton

• Douglas MacArthur

• Omar Bradley

A range of government programs that provide financial or other aid to people to help support their basic needs.

• welfare

• subsidy

• charity

• assistance

A federal health insurance for anyone age 65 and older, and some people under 65 with certain disabilities or conditions.

• Medicare

• Medicaid

• Social Security

• CHIP

Accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union, the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation.

• Chernobyl Disaster

• Fukushima Disaster

• Three Mile Island Incident

• Windscale Fire

A network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 contiguous states and most of the cities with populations above 50,000, begun in the 1950s and estimated to carry about a fifth of the nation's traffic.

• Interstate Highway System

• National Road Network

• U.S. Route System

• Federal Highway Initiative

The disruption of oil supplies from the middle-east that created difficulties to other nations that relied on energy exports.

• Energy Crisis

• Oil Shortage

• Economic Recession

• Supply Chain Disruption