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Chapter 32: Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed

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Select the correct word, term, or phrase.

This activity contains 13 questions.

	Soviet-American relations took a turn for the worse when Soviet armies invaded in 1979, leading President Carter to cut trade with the Soviets, cancel SALT II arms reduction, and boycott the Moscow Olympics.

	Perhaps President Carter's most important achievement was mediating the Camp David Agreement between Israel and .

	In the late 1970s wages and salaries rose in response to inflation, but taxes went up more rapidly because larger dollar amounts put people in higher income tax levels. This situation is referred to as "."

	In the summer of 1979, President Carter gave a speech in which he complained of a "moral and spiritual crisis" that had sapped people's energies and undermined civic pride. The press called this Carter's "" speech.

	President Gorbachev used two Russian words, and perestroika, to refer to political and economic reforms underway in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s?

	In 1973 and 1974, the United States operated a successful orbiting space station known as .

	The term ""was used in the 1980s to refer to immigrants who entered the United States illegally.

	The virus destroys the body's defenses against infection, making victims susceptible to many diseases.

	In the 1980s, many profited on risky investment known as ,which offered unusually high interest rates.

	What term was used to refer to the striking decline of traditionally heavy industries in the Midwest?

	President Reagan referred to the Nicaraguan Contras as "."

	For a time in 1974, President Ford wore a lapel button bearing what three letters of the alphabet?

	Lieutenant Colonel , a National Security Council aide, arranged the secret sale of arms to Iran and the use of $12 million in profits to aid the Nicaraguan Contras.

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