Nixon and Carter
Nixon's policy to have equal funding for boys and girls in school
Title IX
Reagan's economic policy
Reaganomics
Lewinsky Scandal
These were the terror attacks on New York City and Washington DC
Why is the election of 2008 important?
Election of the first Black president
Scandal that caused Nixon to Resign
Watergate
What are two parts of Reaganomics?
Lower taxes and deregulation
NAFTA
This is the name of Obama's major reform
Affordable Care Act
Name one of the government reactions to the 9/11 terror attacks
Department of Homeland Security, ICE, TSA
Carter's major success where he negotiated a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
Reagan's foreign policy where he increased military spending in the hopes of destroying communism
Peace through Strength
Who was President for the end of the Cold War?
George HW Bush
The United States invaded this country after 9/11 because they harbored Al-Qaeda
Afghanistan
This was a major technological invention in the 1990s that greatly connected the country
The internet
The name of Carter's major failure
Iran Hostage Crisis
Reagan was caught illegally selling weapons to Iran to funding anti-communists in Nicaragua
Iran-Contra Affair
Who was the Soviet leader who worked with Reagan and oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
This was the name of the economic event that Obama had to deal with when he was elected president in 2008.
Great Recession
This refers to the spread of US culture to other parts of the world
Diffusion
What do we call it when people no longer trust the government, such as after Watergate?
Credibility Gap
Name one other decade that was economically or politically similar to the 1980s.
Answers may vary.
Identify the scandal for Reagan and the scandal for Clinton. Make sure to say which is which.
Iran-Contra: Reagan
Clinton-Lewinsky: Clinton
The Bush administration said that Iraq had these as a justification for war. Iraq turned out to not have them.
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
These regions saw increased migration after the 1960s
Latin America and Asia