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Who is Jimmy Carter?
Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) which cut personal taxes by 25%, lowered the maximum tax rate from 70 to 50%, and offered a brad array of tax concessions. This plan of supply-side economics was known as?
What is Reaganomics?
These conservative promoted a faith-based political agenda and formed the strongest grassroots movement of the the late twentieth century.
Who are the Christian Right?
The 1990s started off with a bang as the United States entered into its first war since Vietnam.
What is the Gulf War?
2000 started in chaos, with a disputed election between these two candidates.
Who are Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W Bush.
She is the first women to ever be nominated to the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
Reagan bluffed the Soviet Union into collapse, trying to keep up with this theoretical defense strategy that the press called "Star Wars."
What is Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
At the beginning of the 1980s, public health officials had reported that gay men and intravenous drug users were especially at risk of contracting this deadly disease, though it would be a few years before Reagan would even acknowledge the disease.
What is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)?
Bill Clinton emerged as the dynamic leader of this group committed to winning back the middle-class Whites who voted Republican throughout the 1980s.
Who are the New Democrats?
The 9/11 terrorist attack on New York and Washington DC brought the Bush Administration to a new foreign policy that lead to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What is the War on Terror?
This republican congressman wanted to end the tradition of bipartisan compromise by promising an end to big government with his Contract with America.
Who is Newt Gingrich?
With the Soviet economy failing, Gorbachev responded with these two polices aimed at loosening of centralized economic planning and censorship of the press, which will lead to the end of the Soviet Union.
Perestroika "economic restructuring"
Glasnost "openness"
In an attempt to supply weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras, the Reagan administration got a black eye by illegally raising funds in this Watergate like scandal.
What is the Iran-Contra affair?
President Clinton negotiated this treaty to increase trade with Canada and Mexico.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
Daily Double what was the unintended consequence of NAFTA?
This was the justification for invading Iraq in 2003.
What are Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)?
She had an affair with President Clinton leading to the Republican lead House to impeach Clinton for lying under oath.
Who is Monica Lewinsky?
On November 9th, 1989, Germany was united for the first time since World War II when this fell.
What is the Berlin Wall?
On August 1st, 1981, this cable television network went live with Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles.
What is MTV?
The process by which people, goods, information, and cultural tastes circulated across national boundaries.
What is globalism?
This storm destroyed New Orleans in August of 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
She became the first female Speaker of the House.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
George H W Bush spoke of this after the fall of the Soviet Union made four decades of a "containment' foreign policy irrelevant.
One hour after Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his first term, this country released a group of American hostages it had taken during the Carter Administration.
What is Iran?
This law was passed to stop domestic violence and rape.
What is the Violence Against Women Act?
What is the Great Recession?