HST 510 UNITED STATES AFTER 1945

- LECTURE 6 - KEY TERMS -
Aftermath:  Nixon - Ford - Carter - Reagan

 

Presidential Election 1968

 

Detente

 

The "China Card"

 

Henry Kissinger

 

Metternich System

 

Stanley Kubrick

 

Peter Sellers

 

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)


Presidential Election 1972

 

CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President)

 

G. Gordon Liddy

 

GEMSTONE


E. Howard Hunt  James McCord

 

The Plumbers

 

Democratic National Committee Headquarters

 

Watergate Complex

 

Watergate Burglars
Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James McCord, Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis

 

Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Committee)

 

Watergate Hearings

 

Impeachment

 

Spiro T. Agnew

 

Gerald Ford

 

New York bankruptcy

 

Saturday Night Live

 

Energy Crisis

 

Yom Kippur War 1973

 

Jimmy Carter

 

Airline Deregulation Act (1979)

 

 

Iranian Revolution

 

Ayatollah Khomeini

Iranian Islamic Revolution

 

American Hostage Crisis

 

Russian Intervention in Afghanistan

 

Mujahidin

 

Stinger Missiles

 

Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan)

 

Osama bin Laden

 

Al Qaeda 

 

ethical foreign policy

 

non-interventionism

 

Central America

 

White Hand (Death Squads)

 

Nicaragua

 

Sandinista Revolution

 

Daniel Ortega

 

Ronald Reagan

 

Iran-Contra Affair (Irangate)

 

Contras

 

Oliver North

 

"Reaganomics"

 

Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981)

 

US Marine Barracks Bombing Beirut

 

Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada)

 

Strategic Defence Initiative (Star Wars)

 

Mikhail Gorbachev

 

Fall of Communism

 

George H. W. Bush

 

Bill Clinton

 

George W. Bush

 

Barack Obama