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| U.S Chief Justice that decided on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation |
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| political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. |
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| Republican president 1974-1977 following Nixon's lead |
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| 39th U.S president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education |
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| U.S president 1981-1989, switched from Democrat to Republican and developed Reaganomics |
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| American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States |
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| landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the permissible scopefactors in an admissions program, but only for the purpose of improving the learning environment through diversity |
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| policies that take factors including race, color, religion, gender , or national origin into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination |
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| a core meltdown in Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania |
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| two treaties signed by the United States and Panama in Washington, D.C., on September 7, 1977, which abrogated the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty of 1903 |
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| Treaties signed by Israeli minister and Egyptian president agreeing on negotiations in the Middle Eastern territories at the U.S president's country home called Camp David |
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| Fifty-two US citizens were held hostage for 444 days after a group of Islamic students and militants took over the Embassy of the United States in support of the Iranian Revolution |
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| term used predominantly in the United States of America to describe right-wing Christian individuals and organizations characterized by their strong support of public polices of social conservatism |
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| school of macroeconomic thought that argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce (supply) goods and services, such as adjusting income tax and capital gains tax rates, and by allowing greater flexibility by reducing regulation |
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| family of video interfaces standardized by SMPTE that allows HD video |
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| political scandal in the United States that came to light during the Reagan administration. the attempt of U.S officials to release U.S hostages in Iran by selling them arms |
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| failed liberal political movement in the 1980s that proposed appeasement and maintenance of the then-Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal with a simultaneous nuclear disarmament of the United States |
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