Economics
Efforts to bring efficiency to government assistance programs
What is Welfare Reform?
the majority of people, regarded as holding moderate opinions but rarely expressing them.
What is the Silent Majority?
3 week war in which Israel fought off and invasion from Syria and Egypt and which began on the holiest of Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur.
What is the Yom Kippur War?
the cutting back of federal regulation of industry.
What is Deregulation?
unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities of belligerent powers are not simply unequal.
What is Asymmetric Warfare?
a government program— such as Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid—that guarantees and provides benefits to a specific group.
a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
What is Realpolitik?
an organization that controls petroleum production, supplies, and prices in the global market
What is OPEC?
a political alliance of religious groups, consisting mainly of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, that was active in the 1970s and 1980s, condemning liberal attitudes and behavior and raising money for conservative candidates.
What is the Moral Majority?
a disease caused by a virus that weakens the immune system, making the body prone to infections and otherwise rare forms of cancer
What is AIDS?
an ambitious series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs by President Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment.
What is the Great Society?
The process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing
What is Impeachment?
Iranian Muslim religious leader who overthrew the US-backed Shah and established theocracy
Who is the Ayatollah Khomeini?
political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states.
What is New Federalism?
the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.
What is Glasnost?
Persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country's economy.
What is Stagflation?
a scandal arising from the Nixon administration’s attempt to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
What is Watergate?
Nicaraguan rebels who received assistance from the Reagan administration in their efforts to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s
Who are Contras?
the economic policies which were focused on budget cuts and the granting of large tax cuts in order to increase private investment
What is Reaganomics?
the restructuring of the economy and the government instituted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
What is Perestroika?
a political approach that favors free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.
What is the Neo-Liberalism?
the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
What is Detente?
a 1993 treaty that lowered tariffs and brought Mexico into the free trade zone established by the United States and Canada
What is NAFTA?
popularly known as "Star Wars," - intended to protect the US against missile attacks.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?
A public distrust of statements made by the government.
What is a Credibility Gap?