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EPA
one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. -
Detente
a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, -
Endangered Species Act
The Environmental Protection Agency outlaws DDT as a pesticide because of its potential danger to people. -
Watergate
when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. -
OPEC
announces a decision to cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War -
Camp David Accords
At the White House in Washington, D.C., Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords, laying the groundwork for a permanent peace agreement between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages.
