Unit 12 Modern US History Review

First African American to hold the office of the presidency.

• Colin Powell

• Barack Obama

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Michelle Obama

This president got America out of the War in Vietnam and pardoned Richard Nixon.

• Bill Clinton

• Ronald Reagan

• Barack Obama

• Gerald Ford

Created the Environmental Protection Agency and was forced to resign as President of the United States.

• Bill Clinton

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

• Richard Nixon

Egypt and Israel agree to peace in the Middle East with the help of Jimmy Carter

• Treaty of Paris

• Camp David Accords

• Tet Offensive

• Watergate Scandal

Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson were both impeached and acquitted of their crimes.

• True

• False

This limited the Executives power to declare war.

• War Powers Act

• Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Camp David Accords

• Watergate Scandal

President during the attacks of September 11, 2001.

• Ronald Reagan

• George W. Bush

• Richard Nixon

• Bill Clinton

Economic plan to lower taxes on businesses, decrease the size of the government, and increase the size of the military.

• Nixonomics

• Obamanomics

• Reaganomics

• Clintonomics

Nixon's official break into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters and getting caught by the police.

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Watergate Scandal

• War Powers Act

• Camp David Accords

He asked the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War.

• Ronald Reagan

• Bill Clinton

• Jimmy Carter

• Gerald Ford