FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH VOCAB 2.2 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH VOCAB 2.2 EXAM

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Question 1: Camp David Accords

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In 1978, an agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Egyptian and Israeli leaders that made a peace treaty between the two nations possible.

Question 2: SALT

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SALT I was a series of negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on the issue of nuclear arms reduction. The talks helped lower the total number of missiles each side would have and eased the tension between the two.

Question 3: perestroika

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Means restructuring or change. Allowed some private enterprise and profit-making USSR after 1985.Instituted by Gorbachev (the Soviet leader).

Question 4: Henry Kissinger

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The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s).

Question 5: ABM Treaty

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Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; Agreement between the U.S. and the USSR on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile systems.

Question 6: Tet offensive

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1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply

Question 7: Contras

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counterrevolutionary group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinistas; Guerrillas who fought against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua

Question 8: Solidarity

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Polish labor union crushed by the communist-imposed martial-law regime in 1983

Question 9: Panama Canal Treaty

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1978 - Passed by President Carter, these called for the gradual return of the Panama Canal to the people and government of Panama. They provided for the transfer of canal ownership to Panama in 1999 and guaranteed its neutrality.

Question 10: Iran/Contra

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A secret operation in which the US government secretly sent weapons to a known enemy and sent financial aid to a rebel force.

Question 11: Paris Peace Accords

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1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War.

Question 12: OPEC

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An economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that controls the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations.

Question 13: Arab oil embargo

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1973; middle eastern countries of OPEC cut off all oil supplies in 1973 because US sent military to Israel in a war against some of those countries in OPEC

Question 14: glasnost

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Means openness. Allowed more freedom of religion and speech in Soviet Union and satellite nations, enabling people to discuss politics openly. Was a policy of Gorbachev's.

Question 15: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Authority granted by congress to President Johnson in 1964 to approve and support in advance " The determination of the president as commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the U.S.

Question 16: Iranian hostage crisis

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This foreign issue took place from 1979-1981 and involved 52 Americans being held against their will and consumed the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Question 17: Salvador Allende

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Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until his 1973 suicide, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was a Socialist and Marxist elected to the national presidency of a liberal democracy in Latin America.

Question 18: Sandinistas

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Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy.

Question 19: Grenada Invasion

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military coup had killed the prime minister and brought Marxists to power ----Americans captured the island quickly demonstrating Reagan's determination to assert the dominance of the US in the Carribbean

Question 20: Ho Chi Minh Trail

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a supply route used by the nirth vietnamese wich was a network of paths and tunnels that led from north vietnam through laos and cambodia and into south vietnam

Question 21: My Lai massacre

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It was when the Americans approached a village called My Lai on the 16th of March 1968.Reports said the village was in a area controlled by the Vietcong. However they found no VC and killed anyone in their way, 500 died.

Question 22: Khmer Rouge

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The Khmer Rouge is a communist militant group that invaded Phnom Penh in 1975. They controlled Cambodia until 1979.