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Carter
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Proposition 13
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Camp David Accords
the peace treaty that was signed between Anwar Sadat (Egyptian president) and Menachem Begin (Israeli Prime Minister).
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Iran Hostage Crisis
This happened when the U.S. backed Shah was overthrown in an Islamic revolution. Revolutionaries took 52 American hostages from the U.S. Embassy and held them for 444 days. This was President Carter’s greatest foreign policy crisis -
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Reagan
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Sandra Day O’Connor
First female Justice of the Supreme Court. -
Conservatism is Back...
Reagans Domestic Policy consisted of:
Supply-side economics / “trickle down” : Consisted of :Tax cuts – especially for wealthy and businesses ( to encourage investment )Cuts in social spending programs ( resisted by Democratic Congress )Increased military spending -
Iran-Contra Scandal
Members of Reagan’s administration secretly sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East. -
Intermediate-RangeNuclear Forces Treaty
Pres. Reagan met with the new Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. -
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Bush Sr.
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Tiananmen Square
Place where the Chinese communist government crushed a student pro-democracy demonstration in Beijing in 1989. -
Manuel Noriega
Dictator of Panama. In 1989, President Bush sent troops to Panama to overthrow the dictator and try him for drug trafficking charges. -
Operation Desert Storm
The U.S. organized a U.N. coalition of forces to expel Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
Americans with Disabilities Act forbid discrimination and mandated access to public places inregards to persons with physical or mental disabilities. -
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Clinton
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Emergency Family Leave Act
First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton led a task force to develop guaranteed health benefits for uninsured Americans but it was thwarted by the Republicans who saw it as too expensive. Congress did pass the Emergency Family Leave Act giving workers unpaid leave to care for sick family members. -
Internet
The internet started as a project of the Defense Department in 1969 to allow electronic communication between government agencies, defense contractors and universities. It was expanded after 1986 by the national Science Foundation. -
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization was formed to settle trade disputes between nations. Critics of these programs fear the loss of U.S. unskilled jobs to cheaper overseas labor. -
Domestic Terrorism
Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1995 and killed 168 civilians. This was intended as revenge for federal actions at Ruby Ridge and the Branch Dravidian compound. McVeigh and other members of militias distrusted the power of the federalgovernment. -
Welfare Reform Act
The Welfare Reform Act was created to limit welfare benefits and required work to receive benefits. -
Impeached by the House
Clinton was accused of perjury for lying about an intimate relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Pres. Clinton was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate and he remained in office. -
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Bush Jr.
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9/11 attack
On Sept. 11, 2001 four planes were hijacked in a terrorist attack on the U.S. Two were crashed into the World Trade Center Towers and one into the Pentagon. The attack was launched by an Islamic group called Al Qaida led by Osama Bin Laden. -
Patriot Act
The Patriot Act was passed by Congress to make it easier to conduct surveillance in the U.S. to fight terrorism. Controversial and opposed by civil rights groups. -
No Child Left Behind Act
The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to all students in certain grades, if those states are to receive federal funding for schools
