80s
Tax breaks for Americans, including rich corporations.
What is Reaganomics/Supply-side economics?
Told Americans, "Read my lips...No new taxes." He ended up raising taxes and lost many supporters.
Who is President George H. W. Bush?
After the 9/11 attacks, there was a campaign against terrorism. This included air-strikes against Al Qaeda and the US invasion of Iraq.
What is the War on Terror?
A policy coined by President Eisenhower to contain communism in Southeast Asia.
What is the Domino theory?
Symbolizes the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Someone who was acquitted of an impeachment because there was no Senate majority vote.
Who is President Bill Clinton?
The election where the candidate with the most popular votes did not win the most electoral votes.
What is the election of 2000?
An executive order by President Truman made racial discrimination in the US Armed Forces illegal. This led to the integration of the American military.
What is Executive Order 9981?
The first woman elected to the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
A war in which the United Nations formed a coalition of countries (30+) led by the United States to help liberate Kuwait from Iraq.
What is The Persian Gulf War?
A culmination of financial problems, including falling housing prices because of risky investments, large businesses collapsing, and a 7.2% unemployment rate.
What is the 2008 Financial crisis/great recession?
This was passed after American destroyers were attacked by North Vietnam, which allows the president to use force without a formal declaration of war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
A program that would create a system of defense in space where missiles from space could intercept Russian missiles.
The Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
A law that requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities. Furthermore, it makes discrimination based on disability in the workplace illegal.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
A healthcare program that extended coverage to millions of Americans by making it more available and affordable.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Amish children couldn't be forced to go to school past 8th grade because it violates their freedom of religion (1st Amendment right).
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
A conservative group that was founded by an evangelical minister and upheld Conservative and traditional values. This group opposes gay rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and communism.
What is the Moral Majority?
An agreement that led to the rise of a global economy by lowering tariffs, bringing Mexico into a free trade zone with the US and Canada, which ultimately increased exports among the three countries.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
A response to the Great Recession that bailed out banks, auto companies, and others for $1.1 trillion.
What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?
When there is high inflation, high unemployment, and low economic growth?
What is Stagflation?