1960s-1980s

Match the following

• Johnson's Great Society

• Provide food assistance to low-income families

• Food Stamps Act

• Provide health insurance to senior citizens (elderly) over the age of 65

• Medicare Act

• Revitalize urban areas

• Dept. of Housing and Urban Develop (HUD)

• Eliminate poverty and racial injustice

The Oil Embargo Act of 1973 led to..

• Shortage of Gas and increased in gas prices

• U.S. declaring war on Mexico

• Ford running for re-election as President

Which reason has the U.S. government given for support Israel in the Middle East?

• Israel fought alongside the Allies in WW2

• Israel provided NATO with the majority of its oil

• Israel supported communism

Match the following

• Détente

• Nixon hired men to burglarize the Watergate building to steal documents and recorded himself

• Endanger Species Act

• Protect plants and animals who are facing extinction

• Oil Embargo Act of 1973

• Oil rich nations in the Middle East formed the Org of Petroleum Exporting Countries

• OPEC

• Policy which the U.S. forms a relationship with China and the Soviet Union

• Watergate Scandal

• • Gas prices increased & shortages led to long lines for gasoline

What was the reaction of many Americans to the Watergate Scandal?

• Discontent over antiwar and civil rights protest

• Americans began to distrust the government

• Confidence in the new presidential election

Why was President Ronald Raegan criticized for the Iran-Contra Affair?

• His administration sold weapons to Iran

• His policies involved the sharing of nuclear technology

• His administration supported a revolution against the Soviet Union

Why did gasoline (oil) prices spike (rise) during the 1970s and early 1980s?

• A natural disaster impeded offshore drilling for oil

• Conflicts in the Middle East with OPEC disrupted the distribution of oil

Match the following

• Iran Contra Affair

• Led to government to focus on alternative forms of energy/fuel other than oil

• Reaganomics

• Iranians took over the U.S. embassy and took the American workers as hostages in exchange for the Shah

• Department of Energy

• Goal was to improve the economy and cut spending on social welfare programs

• Moral Majority

• Reagan funded a weapon sale to Iran in exchange for the release of the hostages

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Favored a conservative agenda and supported President Reagan

​ (a)   became the first women to serve on the Supreme Court of the U.S.

• Sandra Day O' Conner
• Ice Spice
• Jane Addams

The Camp David Accords brought peace between which two countries in the Middle East?

• Israel and Egypt

• Mexico and Antarctica

• Germany and Japan