Political
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon are where the attacks occurned and over 3000 were killed
What is the attacks of September 11, 2001?
Group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns
What is counter culture?
Supply-side economics used by Reagan's administration. It concluded that tax and deregulation on top producers would spur economic growth. It ended up being less successful than the partisans hoped when it came to the key plan, which was to balance the budget.
What is Reganomics?
President 2008-2016, democrat, 2008 recession and political gridlock, economic stimulation, universal healthcare, ended Iraq war, more troops to Afghanistan
Who is Barack Obama?
Agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to eliminate tariffs
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s, nearly 1/2M gather in a 600 acre field; very peaceful
What is Woodstock?
An expansion of Medicaid, most of employers must provide health insurance, have insurance or face surtax, prevents rejection based on pre-existing condition. Signed into law in 2010.
What is Obamacare?
President 1988-1992, republican, 1990 recession, debt, political gridlock, collapse of USSR, invaded Panama, First Gulf War
Who is George HW Bush?
The 444 days in which American embassy workers were held captive by Iranian revolutionaries after young Muslim fundamentalists overthrew the oppressive regime of the American-backed shah, forcing him into exile.
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
The success of gangsta rap during this period was assumed to be based on its popularity with white consumers. By the mid-1990s, it was a belief that 70% of all hip-hop sales were made by white consumers. That belief was the result of the new reporting that sales in the suburbs naturally correlated with the largely white populations of those communities.
What were some effects of "gangsta rap" in the 1990s?
Why did Iraq attack Kuwait?
President 1992-2000, democrat, free trade (NAFTA, GATT), raised taxes on wealthy, Don't ask don't tell, balanced budget, peace in Bosnia, intervention in Kosovo
Who is Bill Clinton?
Scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
Email, the internet, and cellular phone accelerated globalization and enabled new working patterns like telecommuting. Sites like Amazon, eBay, and Paypal all changed the way people shopped and paid.
What were some digital inventions that changed American society as a whole?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries." -this oil cartel doubled their petroleum charges in 1979, helping American inflation rise well above 13%.
What is OPEC?
President 2000-2008, republican, cut taxes on wealthy, "No Child Left Behind," Iraq war
Who is George W Bush?
President Reagans proposed a weapon system to destroy Soviet missiles from space.
What is Star Wars?
Economic inequality increased real wages for the working and middle classes and stayed largely the same (when adjusted for inflation) from the 1970s through the 21st century.
What were the effects of Economic inequality
The Berlin Crisis solidified the division of Europe. Also, Symbolized the end of the Cold War. Two weeks after the end of the blockade, the State of West Germany was established, soon followed by the creation of East Germany
What were the main effects of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?