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Detente
(ex. signing of SALT I which limits arms manufacture is USSR & US. The easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation, through verbal communication.. -
EPA, Endangered Species Act)
Environmentalist, a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. -
Watergate Scandal
five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington DC in a botched operation that would spark a chain of events that two years later would see Richard Nixon resign as the 37th president of the United States. -
Rep. President Herald Ford Issues
- Energy crisis due to OPEC embargo- does not solve
- Failure of detente
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Camp David Accords
A framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979 -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The 1980 Election. ... On Election Day, one year and two days after the hostage crisis began, Reagan defeated Carter in a landslide. On January 21, 1981, just a few hours after Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address, the remaining hostages were released.
