Key Events
The election of 2008 was between these two candidates.
Who are Barack Obama (D) and John McCain (R)?
Elected in 1968 and 1972, but resigns amidst scandal in 1973.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Created in 2010 to reduce the number of uninsured Americans.
What is the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)?
An agreement entered into by the United States, Mexico and Canada as a way to ensure open trade.
What is NAFTA?
The process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
What is globalization?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
9/11 attacks, War in Afghanistan, contested election results.
Who is George W. Bush?
The combination of tax cuts, deregulation, and less federal government spending became known as this in the 1980s.
What is "Reaganomics?" or trickle down economics
The group of Middle Eastern nations that controlled the price and supply of much of the world's oil starting in the 1970s.
Starting in the 1980s more than 100,000 Americans died from this disease, shocking American society and leading to a call for research and prevention.
What is AIDS?
The importance of a free press and general distrust of government are lingering legacies of this key event.
What is the Watergate scandal?
Hollywood actor turned politician, "Evil Empire" "Star Wars" INF Treaty
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The series of proposed reforms to address domestic issues from the Republican led Congress in the 1990s.
What is the Contract with America?
Nixon's visit to this Communist country in 1971 reversed previously held US policy and was seen as a foreign policy success.
What is China?
1989 marked an end to this physical symbol of Cold War tensions that had endured for decades.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
NAFTA, Contract with America, Columbine school shooting, scandal.
Who is Bill Clinton?
What is the New Right? or Reagan Coalition
Reagan's multiple summits with this Soviet leader signaled the end of the Cold War by the late 1980s.
Who is Gorbachev?
Amid controversy, the election of 2000 was ultimately decided by this group.
What is the Supreme Court?
The United States came to the support of this country during the First Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) when it was invaded by Iraq.
What is Kuwait?
Iranian Hostage Crisis, energy crisis, "political outsider"
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The plan for smaller federal government, less spending more power to state and local governments championed by Nixon in the 1970s.
What is New Federalism?
Identify two of the targets of the 9/11 terror attacks that led to the War in Afghanistan.
What are the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the White House?
The Supreme Court case that allows unlimited money to support political candidates.
What is the Citizens United case?