Goal 12 Terms – Study Guide
The United States since the Vietnam War (1973-present) – The learner will identify and analyze trends in domestic and foreign affairs of the United States during this time period.
Objective 12.01: Summarize significant events in foreign policy since the Vietnam War.
Yom Kippur War
Yasser Arafat - PLO
Helsinki Accords
Jimmy Carter
Camp David Accords
Anwar el-Sadat
Menachem Begin
Shah of Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
U.S. invasion of Lebanon
Iran-Contra Affair
Mikhail Gorbachev
INF Treaty
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Tiananmen Square
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
Saddam Hussein
Persian Gulf Wars
Famine/Somalia and Ethiopia
Foreign debt
Objective 12.02: Evaluate the impact of recent constitutional amendments, court rulings, and federal legislation on United States’ citizens.
Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Schools (1971)
Affirmative action
Title IX
Geraldine Ferraro
William Rehnquist
Sandra Day O’Connor
Flag burning
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Clarence Thomas
Americans with Disabilities Act
Objective 12.03: Identify and assess the impact of economic, technological, and environmental changes in the United States.
Energy Crisis
Stagflation
WIN (Ford)
Three Mile Island
Department of Energy
National Energy Act
Supply-Side economics (Reagonomics)
“Trickle-down” theory
Airline deregulation
National debt
Food stamps
Challenger disaster
NAFTA
Computer revolution
Internet
Bill Gates
NASDAQ in the 1990s
Sunbelt
Objective 12.04: Identify and assess the impact of social, political, and cultural changes in the United States.
New Federalism
Presidential pardon
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Elections of 1976-2000
New Right Coalition
Stonewall Riots
Gay Rights Movement
Graying of America
New Democrat
Ross Perot
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
Newt Gingrich
Joe Lieberman
John McCain
Immigration Policy Act
Objective 12.05: Assess the impact of growing racial and ethnic diversity in American society.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Minorities in politics
Green Card
Bilingual education
No Child Left Behind
Objective 12.06: Assess the impact of twenty-first century terrorist activity on American society.
Nuclear proliferation
Embassy bombings
Terrorist network
Al-Quaeda
Osama bin Laden
September 11, 2001
Patriot Act
Colin Powell
George W. Bush
World Trade Center
Taliban Regime
Afghanistan
War on Iraq
Department of Homeland Security
Airport security
Pre-emptive strikes
Bush Doctrine
“Axis of Evil”
Patriot Act of 2001