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2013 BCE
Debt Ceiling
limit amount of money gov can borrow -
Plo
Palestine Liberation Organization. Reclaim paelestine -
West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Palestine territories -
Yasser Arafat
Palestine political leader of PLO -
Walter Mondale
Jimmy Carters vice president -
California v. Bakke
upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admissions -
Moral Majority
Political group conservative religious. -
Sandinistas
democratic socialist party created after overthrowing the dictator Anastasio Somoz -
Religious Fundamentalism
belief in people with absolute authority over religious tects -
Saddam Hussein
Leader of the Arab socialist party -
Supply-Side Economics
Reagonomics, decrease taxes and regulation to help economy -
Trickle-Down Economics
lower taxes on business to encourage investments and help economy long term -
Economic Recovery Tax Act
lower income tax rates and let people get rid of bad assests -
PACTO Strike
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. A trade union decommisioned after broken by Reagan -
Sandra Day O’Connor
first women to serve on supreme court appointed by Reagan -
AIDS
found in 1981 -
Al-Qaeda
Terrorist group in Iran -
Ronald Reagan
President 1981-89 and 40th president -
Boland Amendment
three U.S. legislative amendments to limit U.S help to Nicaragua -
Beirut Bombings
terrorism in Lebanese War -
Geraldine Ferraro
first female vice president running mate. Democrats -
SDI
missile defense system created Strategic Defense Initiative -
Iran-Contra Affair
secret sales of weapons to Iran -
Mikhail Gorbachev
8th and last leader of the soviet union -
glasnost & perestroika
reconstruction to form communist party -
Enron
Gas scandal -
John Kerry
secretary of state -
William Rehnquist
Supreme Justice appointed by Reagan -
Immigration Act of 1986
re evalute status of illegal immigrants -
“Tear down this wall”
Ronalld Reagan speech about Berlin Wall -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Trea
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Getting rid of Intermed. and short range missiles -
“Read my lips, no new taxes.”
George Bush said that at the Republican convention and broke the promise -
George H.W. Bush
41st president of the U. S -
Tiananmen Square
Nationalist movement protest -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Wall came down. -
Panama Invasion
U.S invaded Panama. Bush SR -
Lech Walesa
Poland communist trade uniojn, solidarity -
Persian Gulf War
Desert Storm after attack on Kuwaiit -
Americans with Disabilities Act
no discrimination against disable people -
Breakup of the Soviet Union
granting self governing freedom to countries within -
Boris Yeltsin
first Russian president -
Start I and II
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, limit arms between U.S and USSR -
Clarence Thomas
first African American to serve o n supreme court -
NRA
National Riffle association -
Internet
Released to the public in 1991. Life changing. -
Ross Perot
Ran an individual president campaign then made Reform Party -
Bosnia and Kosovo
war and then a mass genocide -
“Ethnic Cleansing”
kill members of a group, genocide -
Kyoto Accord
reduce greenhouse emissions -
Bill Clinton
42 president -
Failure of Health Reform (1990’s)
lots of scandal and unorganized -
EU
European Union -
Al Gore
45th vice president -
“Don’t ask, don’t tell”
banned gays from the military -
NAFTA
Canada, Mexico, and the United States tri trade agreementn -
Brady Bill
waiting period for handgun purchases -
Contract with America
document released by Republican Party -
Taliban
Terrorist group agaist America -
Newt Gingrich
House of Representative till 1999 -
Oklahoma City Bombing
domestic terrorism -
WTO
World Trade Organization -
Welfare Reform
change welfare system. clinton -
Bob Dole
republican leader -
Madeleine Albright
Clintons secretary of state -
G-8
major industrial countries -
Deficit Reduction Budget
designed help reduce debt. Bill Clinton -
Clinton Impeachment
sexual assault. Malakalisnky -
George W. Bush
43 president -
Bush v. Gore
recount dispute in Florida -
Bush Tax Cuts
conomic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 -
9/11
Terrorist attack on Twin Towers -
No Child Left Behind
NCLB President George W. Bush -
Homeland Security
Buiold to protect U.S from terrioism -
“Axis of Evil”
Bush being accused of helping terrorism -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
war in Iraq till 2003 -
Hurricane Katrina
hurricane in New Orleans. devastating. -
Housing Bubble
housing prices peaked in 2006b then fell -
WMD’s
Weapons of Mass destruction -
Sarah Palin
governer of alaska -
Great Recession
economic decline -
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Federal Housing Administration -
Hillary Clinton
Ran for president in 2008. lost -
Barack Obama
FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT -
John McCain
Republican nomineee -
D.C. v. Heller
second amendment rights debate -
Tea Party
Movement in the Republican Party -
Sonia Sotomayor
first hispanic Justice -
Dodd-Frank Act
Consumer protection Act -
Abu Ghraib Prison
Prison in bagdahd -
Affordable Care Act
Obama care (health care) -
Arab Spring
Arab roits and revolution -
Citizens United
Corporations can denounce candidates -
Osama Bin Ladin
Terroist leader killed by Obama -
Syrian Civil War
civil war in syria still going -
Mitt Romney
Ran against Obama and lost -
Boston Marathon Bombing
Bombing of marathon. terrorist -
Shelby County v. Holder
Section 4 voting rights acts unconstitutional -
Same-Sex Marriage
Legalized by Obama -
Nuclear Proliferation
the spread of nucs
