A | B |
Gideon v.Wainwright | established the right for everyone to obtain a court appointed lawyer upon request |
Miranda v. Arizona | established the accused rights to be informed of their rights |
Fifth Amendment | Your right to chose not to incriminate yourself/associated with the Miranda case |
Brown v. Board of Education | Ordered desegregation of schools |
Plessy v. Ferguson | Established the "separate but equal" doctrine |
Sixth Amendment | Your right to obtain a lawyer |
Fourteenth Amendment | Your right to due process |
The social issue that the Gideon case addressed | Equal justice for the poor |
Before the Gideon ruling, lawyers were only appointed when there was | a death penalty case or special circumstances |
Actor, governor, 40th President | Ronald Reagan |
$203 budget deficit occurred during the | 1980's |
Supreme Court Justice appointed by Reagan | Sandra Day O'Connor |
Reagan's space based defense system | Star Wars |
Describes Reagan's defense status | Built Up |
Reagan's Vice President | George Bush, the elder :) |
Man Reagan signed a treaty with to eliminate certain ground-launched nuclear missiles | Gorbachev of the Soviet Union |
Reagan was noted for having this torn down. | Berlin Wall |
The Cold War ended upon | the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. |
Took office after the resignation of Nixon | Gerald Ford |
Ford vetoed this many bills | over 50 |
Ford saw the official end to this war | Vietnam |
What Ford did for Nixon | Pardoned him |
President who defeated Ford | Jimmy Carter |
Carter supported the manufacturing of these | Cruise Missiles |
Carter was a champion for these | Human Rights |
Carter signed an agreement to give back this | Panama Canal |
Carter forbade American involvement in this | 1980 Summer Olympics |
Iranian leader that took 66 Americans hostage | Ayatollah Khomeini |
Credited with the freeing of the hostages | Ronald Reagan |
Only president to resign | Richard Nixon |
Nixon resigned in order to avoid this | Impeachment |
Describes the Nixon economy | Inflation |
Nixon legislation that limited presidential powers in terms of sending troops | War Powers Resolution Act |
Anti-War Protest turned bloody | Kent State |
Nixon saw the fulfillment of | the 1955 Supreme Court Ruling to integrate schools |
Carter offered this to draft dodgers | Amnesty |
Nixon did this to the mandatory draft | Voided it, made the armed services an all volunteer unit |
Reason hostages were taken | Carter allowed the Shah to come to the US for cancer treatments |
Reason Carter had to send military troops to attempt a hostage rescue | American impatience |
Iranian attitude toward Americans | Hate |
News anchor who reminded Americans of the hostages plight daily | Walter Cronkite |
Burglary of the Democratic Election Headquarters | Watergate Breakin |
Nixon was not guilty of burglary but of | Obstruction of justice |