Ch. 15: Crisis and Resurgence

President George H.W. Bush sent troops to Iraq after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait 

• Persian Gulf War
• Detente
• Star Wars
• Reagan Doctrine

Elected President in 1980, beginning a resurgence of conservitism

• Jimmy Carter
• Ronal Reagan 
• Bill Clinton
• Gerald Ford

Created to protect the environment from air and water pollution  

• OPEC
• EPA
• ERA
• NAFTA

Policy of relaxing tensions between US and Soviet Union by limiting strategic missile systems 

• Deterrent 
• Watergate 
• Detente
• Arms Race

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, designed to control oil distribution around the world 

• WTO
• GATT
• OPEC
• NRA

Elected President in 1976, struggled with economic problems and a hostage crisis in Iran

• Jimmy Carter
• George H.W. Bush
• Bill Clinton
• Richard M. Nixon

Former CIA agents were caught breaking in to the Democratic Party Headquarters in Washington, D.C. leading to the resignation of Pres. Nixon

• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Watergate Scandal
• Star Wars
• Camp David Accords

Designed to protect the plants and animals on the verge of extinction 

• EPA
• GATT/ WTO
• Endangered Species Act
• NAFTA

A peace negotiated by Pres. Jimmy Carter between historic Middle Eastern enemies, Egypt and Israel 

• Camp David Accords
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Contract With America
• Watergate

Made up of fundamentalist Christians who favored a more socially conservative agenda 

• Contract with America
• Heritage Foundation 
• Moral Majority 
• Reagan Doctrine