Chapter 29 and 30 study guide

1. Who were the gray panthers, gay liberation, and feminism?

2. What was the Kent State Massacre? What was being protested and why did it occur?
3. The President who established the Office of Human Rights in the State Department was:
4. What were the legacies of the Vietnam War:
5. Two of Nixon's Greatest foreign Policy successes were:
6. Did Nixon shrink or expand the size of Government during his time in office?
7. Know the following cases:
Miranda vs. Arizona
Baker vs. Carr
Engel vs. Vitale
Roe vs. Wade
Bakke vs. University of California
8. Who was the president with the best environmental protection?
9. Who were E. Howard Hunt, John Dean, G.Gordon Liddy, and John Mitchell involved with?
10. What is Rachel Carson associated with?
11. What is title IX?
12. What was the most divisive educational issue of the 1970s?
13. What was President Carter's greatest achievement for world peace?
14. Law that required president to report any military force within 48 hours, after 60 days if no war
is declared,hostilities must end is:
15. President Carter's greatest foreign policy problem, helped cost him his second term:
16. Represents a positive aspect of President Carter's administration:
17. the war powers act, the freedom of information act, the fair campaign practices act, and the
federal intelligence surveillance. Know what they did and why they were passed.
18. How was Roe vs. Wade decided?
Chapter 30
1.How did Reagan cut federal spending programs? He lowered taxes and enacted several budet cuts
into law
2.Reagans most ambitious, expensive, and controversial defense measure was: the Strategic
Defense initiative (SDI)
3.Who were Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg? First female supreme court justices
4.What crippled president George H. W. Bush's record on the economy: he initiated a major
redistribution of wealth going to the transnational corporations and their partners (i.e. China, India,
and Mexico) and led to a recession
5.Clinton's legacy as president was marred by all of the following EXCEPT:
problems in Iraq
terrorism
impeachment
scandal
race riots
6.Know president Clinton's early domestic achievements: clinic entrance act-fed. Crime to obstruct
people entering hospitals or abortion critics, gun control measures, increased number of police
officers, family and medical leave act
7.Know the legacies of the Clinton Presidency: remade the image of democratic party, eliminated
the federal deficit and had the strongest economy in recent history
8.What contributed to the growing opposition to the democratic party in the mid 1970's? more

Americans were conservative

9.Know the results of Economic Recovery Tax act: increased the national debt by lowering the
government annual income
10. Know the details of the Iran-Contra affair
scandal that erupted after the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in hopes of freeing
American hostages in Lebanon; money from the arms sales was used to aid the Contras (antiCommunist insurgents) in Nicaragua, even though Congress had prohibited this assistance.
Talk of Reagan's impeachment ended when presidential aides took the blame for the illegal
activity.

11. what was a major stumbling block to cliton's political agenda? His impeachment for having an
affair and the failure of the health-care legislation
12. What was President Reagan's most important achievement? Ended the cold war
13. How did Bush go about achieving victory in the Gulf War? In what ways did he involve the
rest of the world in the War?
14. What was the Clinton Administrations response to Genocide in Rwanda? Ignored the problem