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Watergate Scandal
A major political scandal that occured in the United States as a result of a break in at DNC headquarters at the watergate office complex in washington D.C. and the nixon adminstrations attempted cover up. -
Gerald Ford becomes president
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and, prior to this, was the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974 under President Richard Nixon. -
Proclamation 4311
Granted full pardon to former President Richard Nixon for his involvenment in the watergate scandal. -
Helsinki Accords
effort to reduce tensions between the soviet and western blocks. It secured their common acceptance of europe post world war two. -
Jimmy Carter becomes president
Member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. -
Camp David Accords
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Iran-Hostage Crisis
was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Sixty-six American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.[ -
Reagan becomes president
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Before his presidency he served as the 33rd Governor of California and was also an actor from 1937 to 1964. -
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Boland Amendment
The Boland Amendment is a term describing three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting U.S. government assistance to the Contras in Nicaragua. -
SDI- Star Wars
proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983,to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of Mutual assured destruction. -
Iran-Contra Affair
a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.They hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of several US hostages and use the money to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress. -
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall! speech:
was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall -
INF treaty signed
Treaty signed between the U.S. and Soviet Union.Eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km. -
Election of 1988
The United States presidential election of 1988 was the 51st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. Incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush won the Republican nomination, and chose Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate. The Democrats nominated Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, with Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as his running mate.
