Chapter 46: Ronald Reagan
What is the term that refers to a politician in between the time he has been voted out of office and the time he actually leaves office?
Lame Duck
In August of 1990, ______ _______, the dictator of Iraq, invaded Kuwait.
Saddam Hussein
An open computer network was created for research purposes in 1989, which would become the template for the _____ ____ ___.
World Wide Web (www)
The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was perpetrated by an American named _______ _______.
Timothy McVeigh
What is a rebel or a revolutionary?
Insurgent
Who became the first female Supreme Court Justice in 1981?
Sandra Day O'Connor
On February 24, 1991, the _______ ____ War began, with the U.S. leading a coalition force on a mission called Operation ______ _____.
Persian Gulf, Desert Storm
HTTP (_________ ________ ________) allows you to click on a link and be redirected to that page.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
What is the strict adherence to a set of basic ideas or principles?
Fundamentalism
___________ ____ became the first female African American secretary of state, and _____ ______ became the first female speaker of the house.
Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi
Who did President Reagan believe was the "Evil Empire?"
the Soviet Union
Who won the presidential election of 1992?
William (Bill) Clinton
URLs (_______ ________ ________) are web addresses
Uniform Resource Locators
On the morning of ________ __, ____, terrorists hijacked four airplanes in the U.S.
September 11, 2001
In 2008, ______ _____ was elected the first _______ ________ president of the U.S.
Barack Obama, African American
The Russian word ___________ means "reorganization," or economic reforms, and the Russian word ________ means "openness" to freedom of political opinion.
Prerestroika, Glasnost
What occurred in Kosovo, that is the removal or killing of an ethnic group in a society?
Ethnic Cleansing
HTML (_________ ______ ________) allows you to put links in pages and documents so they connect.
Hypertext Markup Language
Two planes were flown into the _____ _____ ______ in New York City, toppling the Twin Towers, and a third plane crashed into the ________, the headquarters of the Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia.
World Trade Center, Pentagon
What is an increase in the overall average temperature of the earth's atmosphere, partially due to manmade causes?
Climate Change
At midnight on November 9, 1989, the gates were opened between East and West Germany and people began to tear down the ______ _____, the symbol of the Cold War.
Berlin Wall
In 1998, Clinton became the second president to be impeached for _______, lying under oath, and obstruction of justice.
Perjury
Who became president in 2000, which led to ________, having to do with party politics, bitterness?
George W. Bush, Partisan
What two countries did the U.S. begin fighting in after the events of 9/11?
Afghanistan and Iraq
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of ________ _______, requiring every state to allow same-sex couples to marry.
Marriage Equality