Economics
An economic pact that combined the economies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico into one of the world's largest trading blocs.
North American Free Trade Agreement
Biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use
weapons of mass destruction
first African American president of the US from 2008-2016 Democrat
Barack Obama
the approximately one-third of the electorate who are undecided at the start of a campaign
swing voters
Elaborate terrorist attack masterminded by Bin Laden directed at the world trade center, pentagon, and U.S. capital.
9/11
Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned discrimination against the disabled in employment and mandated easy access to all public and commercial buildings.
Americans with Disabilities Act
President Bush's vision for world peace centering around the United States taking the lead to ensure that aggression be dealt with by a mutual agreement of the United Nations, NATO, and other countries acting in concert.
new world order
Republican known as the great communicator President from 1981-1989
Ronald Reagan
High profile scandal involving Clinton's sexual relationship with a young White House intern
Lewinsky affair
Terrorist attack in Boston Massachusetts in April 15th 2013
Boston Marathon Bombing
These policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth. smaller government, less bureaucracy, and freer markets.
Reganomics
The United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information
National Security Agency
President from 1993-2001 Democrat Impeached but not removed from office
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton's slogan created by James Carville, saying that the economy is the base of all problems and it's obvious.
It's the economy, stupid.
After 9/11 occurred, it was established as the newest member of the cabinet with the goal to secure America.
Department of Homeland Security
An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues for the government.
supply-side economics
Americans kidnapped in Beirut by Iranian govt, so deal, scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected, Poindexter and North involved.
Iran-Contra affair
She was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1946, and graduated from Yale Law School. Former First lady of the United States
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Act that emphasized more on keeping immigrants from entering the country illegally, greater border surveillance and increased scrutiny of legal immigrants seeking benefits
Illegal Immigration Reform
Overseas Drone attacks that killed more innocent people than terrorists and often times killed American Citizens
2015 Afghanistan Drone Strikes
Legislation that made deep cuts in welfare grants and required able-bodied welfare recipients to find employment. Part of Bill Clinton's campaign platform in 1992, the reforms were widely seen by liberals as an abandonment of key New Deal/Great Society provisions to care for the impoverished.
Welfare Reform Bill
the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours
Operation Desert Storm
Republican, former director of CIA, oil company founder/owner President from 1989 to 1993
George H. W. Bush
Efforts by Congress to strengthen and streamline U.S. immigration laws. The Act was designed to improve border control by imposing criminal penalties for racketeering, alien smuggling and the use or creation of fraudulent immigration-related documents and increasing interior enforcement by agencies charged with monitoring visa applications and visa abusers.
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
Bombing of Murrah Federal Building. The blast, set off by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, killed 168 people, including 19 children in the building's day-care center.
Oklahoma City bombing