Identifications
Chapter 30:
Society, Politics, and World Events from Ford to Reagan, 1974-1989
After reading Chapter 32, you should be able to identify and explain the
historical significance of each of the following:
Sam Walton and discount stores
Three Mile Island
Greenpeace
Me Generation
Roe v. Wade, right-to-live movement, and pro-choice supporters
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Equal Rights Amendment
"glass ceiling"
ACT-UP
Farm Aid
Bakke v U.S.
Immigration Reform and Control Act, 1986
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Indian Self-Determination Act, 1974
Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority; Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition
SALT II
OPEC
Love Canal
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Camp David Israeli-Egyptian Accords
Iranian hostage crisis
political action committees (PACs)
Reaganomics
Secretary of the Interior James Watt and the Sagebrush Revolution
Donald Trump and Ivan Boesky
Sandinistas versus contras
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
nuclear-freeze movement
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
Sandra Day O'Connor
Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro
Middle East terrorist attacks and Muammar el-Qaddafi
the Iran-contra scandal and Oliver North
Jesse Jackson and the rainbow coalition
Mikhail Gorbachev
Grenada
Ariel Sharon
Democratic Leadership Council
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