| A | B |
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| We Are The World | Benefit concert to combat starvation in Africa |
| Newt Gingrich | First Republican Speaker of the House since before Franklin Roosevelt became President |
| Vladimir Putin | President of Russia |
| Daniel Ortega | Dictator of Nicaragua |
| Tienanmen Square | Site of a pro-democracy protest in China |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | Foreign event that contributed to President Carter's defeat for re-election |
| Governor of California | The only political office held by Ronald Reagan prior to being elected President |
| Barry Goldwater | The 1964 presidential candidate who launched Ronald Reagan's political career |
| George Herbert Walker Bush | President Reagan's Vice President |
| Tax Cuts | Reagan's top priority upon becoming President |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | It's the formal name of the "Star Wars" program |
| Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty | The first arms control treaty to ELIMINATE, not just limit, a class of nuclear weaponsl |
| Mikhail Gorbechev | The last premier of the Soviet Union |
| Mummar Gadhafi | Libyan President and a state sponsor of terror |
| Yassir Arafat | The leader of the PLO |
| Alvin Toffler | A leading futurist |
| The Third Wave | Book that talked about the influence of "stateless" multinational corporations |
| Ten Percent | The number of kids born addicted to drugs in the 1980's |
| Two Hundred Forty | The number of Marines killed in Lebanon by the first suicide bomber |
| Greneda | US forces invaded this country to "save" US medical students |
| Panama | US forces invaded this country to keep a major waterway safe |
| Manuel Noreiga | Former dictator convicted of drug smuggling |
| Haiti | US troops invaded this country to restore democracy and order |
| Violetta Chamorro | The first democratically elected leader - replacing the Sandinistas in Nicaragua |
| Operation Desert Storm | The US action taken to save Kuwait from Iraqi invasion |
| Glasnost | Soviet policy of openness in government |
| Perestroika | Soviet policy of openness in the economy |
| Sandinistas | Nicaraguan communists |
| Contras | Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" |
| No New Taxes | George H.W. Bush's ill considered 1988 campaign pledge |
| Iran-Contra Affair | It's when we sold weapons to our enemies in violation of Congress' express instructions not to |
| Webster v. United States | Supreme Court decision that said the right to abortion can be restricted |
| Jesse Jackson | The African-American who was a serious contender for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination |
| Clarence Thomas | The African-American Supreme Court Justice who was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill |
| Boris Yeltsin | The first democratically elected President of Russia |
| Ross Perot | The Reform Party candidate for President in 1992 & 1996 |
| China | The US' main competitor on the world stage, after the fall of the Soviet Union |
| Apartheid | Term for LEGAL discriminaton (practiced in South Africa) |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | The treaty that eliminated tariffs on trade between the US, Canada and Mexico |
| It's The Economy Stupid | The guiding mantra of the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign |
| Lotteries | New form of financing for states |
| Whitewater | A land scandal that occured during Bill Clinton's time as Governor |
| Welfare | Bill Clinton reformed this program |
| Al Gore | Bill Clinton's Vice President and a Nobel Prize Winner |
| Plurality | It's the kind of popular vote President Clinton got in both 1992 & 1996 |
| Colin Powell | The first African-American Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and also the first African-American Secretary of State |
| Hillary Clinton | First, serious, female candidate for President |
| Hillary Clinton | The Chair of President Bill Clinton's attempt to get universal health care for all Americans |
| James Brady | Reagan's Press Secretary, shot in the head during the attempt on Reagan, whose name appeared on gun control legislation |
| William Rehnquist | The Chief Justice who presided over Bill Clinton's impeachment trial |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | The successful general of Desert Storm |
| Charles Keating | One of the leading causes of the Savings and Loan debacle |
| Paula Jones | One of many women who accused President Clinton of sexual harrassment - only she got money damages where the others did not |
| Monica Lewinsky | Young intern who was "oral" with the President in the Oval Office |
| Don't Ask Don't Tell | Bill Clinton's policy towards gays in the military |
| Global Economy | It is how our economy is these days |
| Balance of Trade | Selling abroad as much as you import |
| Economy of Scale | Buy a lot to get a lower price |
| Impeachment | A trial to see if a President should remain in office or not |
| Lawrence Walsh | Special prosecutor for the Iran-Contra scandal |
| William Rehnquist | The Chief Justice who presided over Bill Clinton's impeachment trial |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | The successful general of Desert Storm |
| Charles Keating | One of the leading causes of the Savings and Loan debacle |
| Paula Jones | One of many women who accused President Clinton of sexual harrassment - only she got money damages where the others did not |
| Monica Lewinsky | Young intern who was "oral" with the President in the Oval Office |
| Don't Ask Don't Tell | Bill Clinton's policy towards gays in the military |
| Global Economy | It is how our economy is these days |
| Balance of Trade | Selling abroad as much as you import |
| Economy of Scale | Buy a lot to get a lower price |
| Impeachment | A trial to see if a President should remain in office or not |
| Lawrence Walsh | Special prosecutor for the Iran-Contra scandal |
| Steve Jobs | The first to introduce the "personal" computer to consumers |
| 1991 | When the Internet was born |
| Kenneth Starr | Special prosecutor in the Monica Lewinsky affair |
| Kosovo | Where the U.S. and NATO intervened to stop the "ethnic cleansing" of Muslims by Christians |
| Family Reunification | The #1 priority of U.S. immigration policy |
| Global Warming | Today's paramount environmental problem |
| 9/11 | Date of terrorist attacks on the U.S. |
| Al Gore | Winner of the popular, but not electoral, vote in the 2000 elections |
| Florida | The "hanging chads" state that cost Al Gore the election |
| Tax Cuts for the Wealthy | The thing that initially unbalanced our budget and wiped out the Clinton era budget surplus' |
| Afghanistan | The home of the Al Qaeda hiding Taliban |
| Anthrax | The form that the terrorist attack took on Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) |
| Patriot Act | The Act that allowed warrantless searches of American citizens to combat terrorism |
| New Orleans | The major American city that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina |
| Condi Rice | First African-American woman Secretary of State |
| Nancy Pelosi | First female Speaker of the House |
| Osama Bin Laden | Architect of the 9/11 attacks on America |
| Barack Obama | The first African-American President of the United States |
| We Are The World | Benefit concert to combat starvation in Africa |
| Newt Gingrich | First Republican Speaker of the House since before Franklin Roosevelt became President |
| Vladimir Putin | President of Russia |
| Daniel Ortega | Dictator of Nicaragua |
| Tienanmen Square | Site of a pro-democracy protest in China |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | Foreign event that contributed to President Carter's defeat for re-election |
| Governor of California | The only political office held by Ronald Reagan prior to being elected President |
| Barry Goldwater | The 1964 presidential candidate who launched Ronald Reagan's political career |
| George Herbert Walker Bush | President Reagan's Vice President |
| Tax Cuts | Reagan's top priority upon becoming President |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | It's the formal name of the "Star Wars" program |
| Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty | The first arms control treaty to ELIMINATE, not just limit, a class of nuclear weaponsl |
| Mikhail Gorbechev | The last premier of the Soviet Union |
| Mummar Gadhafi | Libyan President and a state sponsor of terror |
| Yassir Arafat | The leader of the PLO |
| Alvin Toffler | A leading futurist |
| The Third Wave | Book that talked about the influence of "stateless" multinational corporations |
| Ten Percent | The number of kids born addicted to drugs in the 1980's |
| Two Hundred Forty | The number of Marines killed in Lebanon by the first suicide bomber |
| Greneda | US forces invaded this country to "save" US medical students |
| Panama | US forces invaded this country to keep a major waterway safe |
| Manuel Noreiga | Former dictator convicted of drug smuggling |
| Haiti | US troops invaded this country to restore democracy and order |
| Violetta Chamorro | The first democratically elected leader - replacing the Sandinistas in Nicaragua |
| Operation Desert Storm | The US action taken to save Kuwait from Iraqi invasion |
| Glasnost | Soviet policy of openness in government |
| Perestroika | Soviet policy of openness in the economy |
| Sandinistas | Nicaraguan communists |
| Contras | Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" |
| No New Taxes | George H.W. Bush's ill considered 1988 campaign pledge |
| Iran-Contra Affair | It's when we sold weapons to our enemies in violation of Congress' express instructions not to |
| Webster v. United States | Supreme Court decision that said the right to abortion can be restricted |
| Jesse Jackson | The African-American who was a serious contender for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination |
| Clarence Thomas | The African-American Supreme Court Justice who was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill |
| Boris Yeltsin | The first democratically elected President of Russia |
| Ross Perot | The Reform Party candidate for President in 1992 & 1996 |
| China | The US' main competitor on the world stage, after the fall of the Soviet Union |
| Apartheid | Term for LEGAL discriminaton (practiced in South Africa) |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | The treaty that eliminated tariffs on trade between the US, Canada and Mexico |
| It's The Economy Stupid | The guiding mantra of the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign |
| Lotteries | New form of financing for states |
| Whitewater | A land scandal that occured during Bill Clinton's time as Governor |
| Welfare | Bill Clinton reformed this program |
| Al Gore | Bill Clinton's Vice President and a Nobel Prize Winner |
| Plurality | It's the kind of popular vote President Clinton got in both 1992 & 1996 |
| Colin Powell | The first African-American Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and also the first African-American Secretary of State |
| Hillary Clinton | First, serious, female candidate for President |
| Hillary Clinton | The Chair of President Bill Clinton's attempt to get universal health care for all Americans |
| James Brady | Reagan's Press Secretary, shot in the head during the attempt on Reagan, whose name appeared on gun control legislation |
| Steve Jobs | "Mr. Computer" the founder of Apple and the popularizer of the persona computer |
| Mitt Romney | The first Mormon nominated for President, the former Governor of Massachussetts lost to President Obama in the 2012 election |
| Barack Obama | The 44th President of the United States and the first African-American to hold that office |
| Telecommuting | Working from home via the computer |
| Refugee | A person fleeing persecution in their home country |
| State Sponsored Terrorism | Terrorism "hosted" by a country with formal boundaries and a "responsible" government |
| Drones | Unmanned "missiles" used to target individual terrorists by the United States |
| March 30, 1986 | The day President Reagan was nearly assassinated |
| January 26, 1986 | The day the Challenger blew up |
| October 19, 1987 | The worst stock market crash in the history of the United States up to that time |
| 1991 | The year the Internet was "born" as we know it |
| April 19, 1995 | The terrorist bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| April 20, 1999 | The date of the mass school shooting in Columbine, Colorado |
| September 11, 2001 | The day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on flight United 93 |
| Qur'an | The Holy Book of Islam |
| Obamacare | The nickname for the healthcare plan of President Obama to get all Americans health insurance |
| Occupy Wall Street | A protest of the 99% against the richest 1% of Americans over income inequality |
| Arab Spring | A spontaneous uprising of Arab peoples overthrowing their tyrannical leaders |
| Citizens United v. The Federal Communications Commission | A Supreme Court ruling saying that limits on campaign contributions is an unconstitutional limitation of "free" speech |
| 1965 Immigration Act | Our current immigration policy saying preference for entry will be given to immigrants with unique skills, family already in the U.S. or those fleeing persecution |
