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| 168487506 | Richard Nixon | vietnam war/ watergate/ tried to impeach/ was the first president to resign 37th president! | 0 | |
| 168487507 | Jimmy Carter | oil crisis/ 3 mile island/ iran crisis/ 39th president | 1 | |
| 168487508 | Ronald Reagan | Economics Theories was to make america great again used the suppy side and trickle down/40th president | 2 | |
| 168487509 | Bill Clinton | used a combination of conservative and liberalism/ tried to impeach him, but the 2/3 vote was not met./ 42nd president | 3 | |
| 168487510 | George W. Bush | Iraq war/ lead to the worst deficit/43rd president | 4 | |
| 168487511 | What were the reactions of anti- vietnam american boys when drafted? | by 1967, young men were burning their draft cards or fleeing to canada to avoid fighting in what they considered an unjust war | 5 | |
| 168487512 | why american forces burned and destroyed villages in vietnam? | it was increasingly difficult to know where viet cong forces were hiding especially with the tunnel systems they had under huts and bushes. therefore the us troops destroyed the whole village to ruin a hiding spot. villagers suspected of aiding the viet cong were killed and others were forced to live in encampments called "strategic hamlets" | 6 | |
| 168487513 | What tramatized soldiers in vietnam? | the idea of death, teh constant fear of being blown up, and the sight of their fellow soldiers being blown up by land mines. they began to experiment with drugs | 7 | |
| 168487514 | what stories can do for the dead who fought in the war? | stories kept the dead alive by telling stories of the dead. it made things present. | 8 | |
| 168487515 | Anti- vietnam demonstrations | Protests began to spread on college campuses. 4 studenst from kent state were killed when the national guard opened fire on them. over 350 colleges and univerisities had protest and troops occupied 21 campuses. within vietnam, many soilders began to disregard disicipline and some even attacked their officers. | 9 | |
| 168487516 | How did Nixon end the war? | he negociated a peace and the paris peace agreement was signed. with this the final withdrawal of american military could take place. | 10 | |
| 168487517 | Watergate | release of the pentagon papers, nixon created a team of investigators called "plumbers" to gather evidence about daniel ellsberg. they raided his psychiatrist office. in june 72, 5 fomer members of nixon's re-election committee took part in a break- in of the democratic party headquaters. nixon paid burglars to keep quiet or commit perjury. | 11 | |
| 168487518 | oil crisis | a brief war between israel and its neighbors egypt and syria. Middle eastern arab states retaliated for western support of israel and quadrupling the price of oil and suspending export of oil to the us for several months. The second oil crisis happened because of a revolution in iran when ayatollah khomeini overthrew the shah of iran | 12 | |
| 168487519 | 3- mile island accident | this set back teh move for using nuclear power to replace oil dependence. 3 mile island plant in pennsylvania released massive amounts of radioactive steam into the atmosphere. this reinforced the dangers of nuclear power | 13 | |
| 168487520 | Soviet invasion of afghanistan | the soviets (soviet union) invaded to support a friendly government threatened by islamic rebellion. President carter announced the carter, stating the us would use military force to protect its interest in persian gulf. the us funded fundamental muslims......who were fighting guerilla warfare with soviets. | 14 | |
| 168487521 | Reagan, Gorbacev, and the Cold War | in his second term, he estab. good relations with gorbachev the soviet premier. in an effort to build up the economy gorbachev implemented policies, glasnot (political openness) and perestrokia (economic reform). the two men made agreements on arms control and to eliminate the intermediate and short- range nuclar missiles in europe. the relations improved to the point of tearing down the berlin wall.. | 15 | |
| 168487522 | Computer Revolution | Apple and IBM began producing computers, which changed america. this industry created and revolutionized the way people conducted busines at work and home. the internet also contributed to this spread of new and information, and let to the globalization of business and economy. | 16 | |
| 168487523 | pros and cons of globalization | it opened up a wider market for goods, but also led to problems with practices such as outsourcing employment to foreign countries.. | 17 | |
| 168487524 | distribution of wealth and income in the us | the gap between rich and poor has widened and the middle class had be decreasing | 18 |
