American History II Unit 5

Industry and Business

100

Reagan's economic policy that would give tax breaks to the rich and wealth would trickle to more job creation and higher wages

Supply-side economics

200

This reduced the number of jobs and labor costs in the 1970s and 1980s

automation and mechanization

300

New computer company that created popular personal computers 

Apple Computers

400

Term given for the movement of industrial factories to the South and Asia

deindustrialization

500

Industry that boomed from the 1980s - 2000s

computer technology

the Economy

100

When OPEC nations cut off the U.S. from their oil supply

Oil embargo

200

Result of deindustrialization in the 1970s and 1980s

High unemployment

300

When inflation grew and wages stayed the same in the 1970s

stagflation

400

The treaty in the 1990s that provided open trade between the U.S., Mexico and Canada

NAFTA

500

Market bubble that burst in 2008 causing the Great Recession from 2008-2010

the Housing Market

the Presidency

100

First president of African American descent elected to office and signed the Affordable Care Act and legislation to protect consumers in the banking industry

Barack Obama

200

He was elected and re-elected as president in two landslides

Ronald Reagan

300

Elected in a controversial election in 2000, he led the War on Terror after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

George W. Bush

400

Scandal of the Nixon Administration that covered up the break-in of the Democratic National headquarters in Washington D.C. and refusal to cooperate with prosecutors claiming executive privilege

Watergate

500

He became a president after the Watergate Scandal and faced the first OPEC oil embargo, high unemployment, and stagflation

Gerald Ford

Domestic Issues

100

Americans that obtained the right to marry by the Supreme Court in 2015

LGBTQ Americans

200

Hurricane in 2005 that devastated the city of New Orleans when its levies broke 

Hurrican Katrina

300

Movement that protested against tax benefits for those who had incomes in the top 1% and the bailouts received by investments firms, banks and coroporations  

Occupy Wall Street

400

Religious poitical group led by Rev. Jerry Falwell that supported conservative values and helped to elect Ronald Reagan

the Moral Majority

500

 Act passed that separated commercial and investment banking and signed by President Obama

the Dodd Frank Act

Foreign Policy

100

Terrorist organization led attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001

al-Qaeda

200

Communist empire that collapsed in 1991

the Soviet Union

300

Reagan's proposed nuclear missile defense system that was dubbed Star Wars by scientists and his critics

SDI

400

The U.N. effort led by the U.S. to remove the Iraqi Army from Kuwait

Operation Desert Storm

500

Considered the first living room war and its unpopularity led to U.S. withdrawal in 1975

the Vietnam War