Chapter 30 Id

Franklin Chang-Diaz was a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist and NASA astronaut. He is of Chinese and Costa Rican descent. (958-959)
Sandinista Liberation Front was a leftist guerilla movement that overthrew Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua in 1979. They later established a revolutionary government under Daniel Ortega. (962)
Camp David Accords was a treaty that was signed at Camp David in 1978. Under this treaty, Israel returned territory capture from Egypt and then, Egypt recognized Israel as a nation. (964)
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was a religious leader of Iran’s Shiite Muslims. The Shiites collapsed the shah in 1979 and the ayatollah established a new constitution that gave him supreme powers. (965)
Three Mile Island was the main site of a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An accident occurred in 1979, the plant had a release of radioactive gases and almost caused a meltdown. (966)
OPEC or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries set the oil prices very high which resulted in America only creating 15% of the world’s steel. This added to inflation and unemployment and threatened the nation’s industrial base which depends on inexpensive fuels. (967)
Postindustrial society is an economy whose base is no longer driven by manufacturing but by service and information industries. (967)
Rust Belt was an industrialized Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes region whose old factories are barely profitable or have closed. (968)
Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed constitutional amendment that gave women equal right under the law. Congress approved this amendment in 1972 but it failed to achieve ratification by the required 38 states. (969)
Proposition 13 was a proposition that was passed by Californian voters.   Prop. 13 was a measure adopted by referendum in California in 1978 that cut local property taxes by more than 50 percent. (972)
Moral Majority was a conservative religious organization that was led by televangelist...