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| Reagonomics | policy that cut taxes (supply side econmics) and decreased govt regulation |
| SDI | Reagan proposed this ground based and space based means of protecting the Us . It was expensive and un-obtainable |
| Sandra Day OConnor | 1st female US Supreme Court Justice |
| Don't Ask Don't Tell | official US military policy from 1993 to 2011 |
| affirmative action | measures enacted to help minorities; sometimes referred to as reverse discriminations |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Gen. Sec of the USSR who creative massive change and helped bring an end to the Cold War and the USSR |
| Tiananmen Square | site of a Student protest where many were killed |
| Operation desert Storm | US along with 34 nations fought against IRaq after its invasion of Kuwait |
| NAFTA | agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United states |
| Oklahoma City | site of a domestic terrorist bombing in 1995 that killed 168 people and injured 680; The perpetrator McVeigh claimed he did on the anniversary of the WACO bombing |
| Al Qaeda | a global militant Islamic organization founded by Osama Bin Laden and others |
| Osama bin Laden | Sunni militiant who along with Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks |
| The Taliban | Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan |
| US Patriot Act | Under George W Bush this law was signed which enables the government to listen to certain emails and phone calls |
| Guantanamo Bay | site of a US military camp used to house terrorist criminals |
| INf | 1987 agreement between US and USSR to Eliminate intermediate and shorter range missiles |
| Iran - Contra Affair | scandal during Reagan Administration that invovled Iran trading hostages and money in return for the US giving the |
| Glastnost | means "openness" ; was Gorbachev's policy in USSR for more open communications |
| Perestroika | means "restructuring" referring to the restructuring of the USSR of the Soviet economy |
| Operation Desert Shield | operation for the build up of troops and supplies in the Persian Gulf |
| Anita Hill | levied sexual harrassment charges against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas which resulted in his appointment hearing |
| Kuwait | little Middle Easern Country that Iraq invaded to cause the Persian Gulf War |
| George HW Bush #41 | His presidency was marked by his raising of taxes and the First Persian Gulf War |
| Bill Clinton | His presidency was marked by the NAFTA treaty, White Water Scandal and Monica Lewisky Scandal |
| This president was impeached | Bill Clinton |
| perjury | the reason Clinton was imeached |
| George W Bush #43 | this president's term was marked by Sept. 11 2001 terrorist attack and War on Terrorism |
| Barack Obama | This Nobel Peace Prize winning president who made drastic changes to US healthcare |
| Contract with America | Newt Gingrich and other Republicans wanted to reduce government and spending |
| The US Supreme Court | stopped the recount of the 2000 election results and declared George W Bush the winner |
| “Axis of Evil” | term used by Bush to refer to North Korea, Iran, & Iraq |
| Newt Gingrich | Republican who put together the "Contract for America" |
| Read My Lips, No New taxes | Campaign promise George HW Bush was unable to keep |
| Oliver North | took the responibility for the IRan Contra Scandal |
| Ronald Reagan | the Teflon President; former actor; took no responisibility for IranContra Scandal |
| South Africa | the US imposed economic sanctions on this country as a result of its Apartheid government where the minority whites ruled the majority black |
| Nelson Mandela | South African who was in prison and eventually became the leader of the South Africa after Aparteid was abolished |
| Yugoslavia | country whose break up caused a lot of violence in Europe |
| Somalia | African coutnry where US helped send Supplies |
| apartheid | South African government where the minority whites ruiled the majority blacks; first democratic multi racial elections were held in 1994 |
| Saddam Hussein | leader of Iraq who was hanged for Crimes against Humanity |
| USSR | In 1991 Communism failed in this country and it broke into 12 different nations |
| Germany | This country was reunified around the time that the Berlin wall came down |
