Reagan Era/New Era
This president was elected in 1980 and promoted conservative policies.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This president led the United States during the Persian Gulf War.
Who is George H. W. Bush?
This president was elected in 1992.
Who is Bill Clinton?
This terrorist organization attacked U.S. targets during the 1990s.
What is al Qaeda?
Reagan's economic plan focused on tax cuts and less government regulation.
What is Reaganomics?
This wall came down in 1989 and symbolized the end of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This dictator of Panama was arrested by U.S. forces.
Who is Manuel Noriega?
This organization worked with the U.S. in Bosnia and Kosovo.
What is NATO?
This type of intervention occurs when countries act to help people during a crisis.
What is humanitarian intervention?
This government spending category increased greatly during Reagan's presidency.
What is defense (military) spending?
Name two nations where communism lost power in 1989
What is Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania
Iraq invaded this country in 1990.
Kuwait
These inventions helped transform communication and business during the 1990s.
What are computers and the internet?
After the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy shifted from containing communism to addressing these two major challenges.
What are regional conflicts and terrorism?
This scandal involved secret weapons sales to Iran and money sent to the Contras.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
How many nations became independent republics after the fall of the Soviet Union
What is 15?
The United States worked with many countries in this type of alliance during the Gulf War
What is a coalition?
Clinton was charged by the House of Representatives in a process called this.
What is impeachment?
President Reagan opposed this Nicaraguan government because he believed it was too closely aligned with communism.
Who are the Sandinistas?
Many conservatives supported Reagan because he promoted lower taxes, a strong military, and these traditional beliefs.
What are traditional values?
What did Gorbachev allow Read to do in Moscow
To address students at Moscow State University on the benefits of the free-enterprise system and democracy.
This Iraqi leader ordered the invasion of Kuwait.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
President Clinton sent U.S. forces to this African country to help during a famine and civil war.
What is Somalia?
How did the end of the Cold War change the role of the United States in the world?
The United States became the world's only superpower and shifted its focus from containing communism to dealing with regional conflicts, humanitarian crises, and terrorism.