The Obama Years
a comprehensive U.S. health care reform law enacted in March 2010. Its primary goals are to expand health insurance coverage, lower health care costs, and introduce vital consumer protections for all Americans.
What was The Affordable Care Act?
This governing branch ultimately decided the 2000 election between George W. Bush (R) and Al Gore (D)
Who was the Supreme Court?
This event marks the end of the Cold War
What was the Collapse of the Soviet Union?
a decades-long, government-led campaign aimed at reducing the illegal drug trade, distribution, and consumption.
What was the War on Drugs?
A massive political scandal in the United States during the 1970s, triggered by a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
an economic theory asserting that certain corporations are so large and deeply interconnected with the broader economy that their collapse would trigger disastrous systemic failure. Consequently, governments will step in with bailouts to prevent their bankruptcy
What is "To Big To Fail"?
This terrorist attack famously utilized planes which crashed into the Pentagon, The World Trade Center, and a field in Shanksville Pennsylvania
What was 9/11?
a decisive conflict waged by a United Nations-authorized coalition of 35 nations, led by the United States, against Iraq to protect Kuwait
What was the Gulf War?
Before Covid-19, this was the world's most recent pandemic and has claimed over 40 million lives worldwide
What is HIV/AIDS
an economic condition defined by the simultaneous occurrence of three factors: high inflation, slow economic growth, and high unemployment
What is Stagflation?
a wave of pro-democracy protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in the early 2010s.
What was the Arab Spring?
As a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this new branch of The Department of Homeland Security was established and most commonly is seen in airports
What is the Transportation Security Administration?
the process of increasing integration and interdependence among countries, driven by international trade, investment, and advancements in technology. It involves the free flow of goods, services, capital, people, and ideas across international borders, transforming the world into a connected community.
What is Globalization?
A term famously coined by U.S. President Ronald Reagan early on in his presidency to label the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Later in his presidency he would walk back this term, and work more closely to establish diplomatic ties with the Soviets
What was The Evil Empire?
This is an intergovernmental organization made up of the world's major oil-producing nations. Its primary function is to coordinate and unify petroleum policies to stabilize global oil prices and ensure a steady return for producers.
What is OPEC
This event took place on May 2, 2011, during a covert U.S. military operation known as Operation Neptune Spear.
What was the killing of Osama Bin Laden?
DAILY DOUBLE
A Global Financial Crisis leading to the ensuing Great Recession. It was the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. It was primarily triggered by the collapse of the U.S. housing market and risky lending practices by major financial institutions.
He was an African American man whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers became a catalyst for a national reckoning on police brutality and racial injustice. The lack of state level criminal indictments against the police officers involved helped spark the LA Riots.
Who was Rodney King?
a massive grassroots campaign in the early 1980s that called for the United States and the Soviet Union to mutually halt the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons
What was The Nuclear Freeze Movement?
a type of economic system where the production of physical goods serves as the primary driver of wealth, employment, and Gross Domestic Product
What is a Manufacturing Economy?
She is the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice and the third woman U.S. Supreme Court justice
Who is Justice Sonia Sotomayor?
An extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed 1,392 people and caused damage estimated at $125 billion, particularly in and around the city of New Orleans, in late August 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
A comprehensive 1990 federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and public and private places open to the general public.
What is the Americans With Disabilities Act?
Defined as the uniquely high rate of imprisonment and expansive criminal justice control in the United States. Beginning in the 1970s, punitive policy shifts—such as the "War on Drugs" and mandatory minimums—caused the U.S. prison population to surge by 500 percent
What is Mass Incarceration?
an economic model where the majority of value and employment is generated by intangible services rather than the manufacturing or extraction of physical goods
What is a Service Economy?