A policy in educational admissions or job hiring that gives special attention or compensatory treatment to traditionally disadvantaged groups in an effort to overcome present effects of past discrimination.

In the context of civil rights, the transportation of public school students from areas where they live to schools in other areas to eliminate school segregation based on residential patterns.

using race or sex to give preferential treatment to some people

Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that reduced the two nations' supply of long-range nuclear weapons.

A United States law enacted on June 23, 1972 that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

In 1968 American troops massacred women and children in the Vietnamese village of My Lai; this deepened American people's disgust for the Vietnam War.

Government documents that showed the public had been lied to about the status of the war in Vietnam

Passed by Congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime (which can be extended for an extra thirty days to permit withdrawal) unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period.

The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.

Economic crisis of 1973 that occurred when OPEC nations refused to export oil to Western nations. Ensuing economic crisis plagued Gerald Ford's time in office.

a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)

The cumulative and sustained decline in the contribution of manufacturing to a national economy.

A region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the South and Southwest that has seen substantial population growth in recent decades, partly fueled by a surge in retiring baby boomers who migrate domestically, as well as the influx of immigrants, both legal and illegal.

A conference in Finland in 1975 that was an attempt to improve relations between the East and West

A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.

Nuclear Power Plant in Harrisburg, Penn. which failed, causing radiation to be admitted in the air

A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel

the belief that, rather than exercising restraint, the United States should aggressively use its might to promote its values and ideals around the world

The policies of the first Reagan administration; based on *"supply side"* theory of growing the economy.

Reagan's economic policy; tax cuts, arms build up, budget cuts

The belief that the United States should be extremely reluctant to commit its armed forces overseas.

This involved high officials in the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran (in return for the release of Western hostages in the Middle East) and illegally using the proceeds to finance the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.