| A | B |
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| SALT II | an arms control treaty to limit nuclear launchers and missiles with multiple warheads. |
| Roe V. Wade | Supreme Court case, struck down 46 laws restricting a woman's access to abortion. |
| Sexism | discrimintation between sexes. |
| Earth Day | a national day to celebrate and promote a healthy environment. |
| The Feminine Mystique | gave birth to new woman's rights movement. |
| Equal Rights Ammendment | would forbid all discrimination on the basis of gender. |
| Human Rights | natural rights of humans |
| Camp David Accords | Egypt and Israel met with Carter for peace talks. |
| Barry Commoner | wrote a book, arguing that modern society courted disaster by trying to "improve on nature." |
| Ralph Nader | argued too many automobiles were unsafe even in minor accidents.. |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| Three Mile Island | nuclear power plant |
| ecology | biological science that demonstrated how closely life processes throughout nature depend on one another |
| Archibald Cox | law professor to investigate the new watergate disclosures |
| John W. Dean III | White house council, fired after he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors |
| the Plumbers | A team organized to find and plug security leaks |
| impoundment | Refusal to spend the appropriated money |
| Anwar Sadat | President of Egypt |
| Santa Barbara | City that underscored the limits of American power and technology both at home and abroad |
| the Ayatollah Khomeini | Islamic republic |
| Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | Washington Post reporters that traced some of the burglarsl money back to the Nixon reelection campaign |
| Betty Friedan | One of the first women to voice dissatisfaction with the cultural attitudes prevalent at midcentury |
| Moscow Olympics | Carter decided to withdraw American teams |
| Angola | Southwest country in Africa |
| "rust belt" cities | Eastern and Midwestern cities |
| Class-action suit | In law, a court procedure in which one or more claimants represent a larger group of people |
| meltdown | Complete collapse of an organization |
| MIRV missiles | multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle |
| Executive privilege | The right of the President and other government officials in the executive branch to refuse to reveal confidential material if this would interfere with the administration's ability to govern |
