Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
(1977-1981), Created the Department of Energy and the Depatment of Education. He was criticized for his return of the Panama Canal Zone, and because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Equal Pay Act
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Watergate Scandal
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
1975
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Founded in 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) called for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women. NOW also championed the legalization of abortion and passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution.
Water Quality Act
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The US federal agency with a mission to protect human health and the environment.
Phyllis Schlafly
Helsinki Accords
Camp David Accords (1978)
Iranian Revolution
Iranian Hostage Crisis
3 Mile Island
Stagflation
A period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation).
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Reaganomics
Sunbelt
Sandra Day O'Connor
First woman supreme court justice. appointed by Reagan.
Thurgood Marshall
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.
HIV/AIDS
Iran-Contra Scandal
Mikhail Gorbachev
The World Wide Web
Don't Ask Don't Tell
Deregulation
Al Qaeda
Oklahoma City Bombing
Al Gore
9/11
Taliban
Bush Doctrine
Axis of Evil
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Great Recession
Colin Powell
Sonia Sotomayor