Major changes in American politics under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, including cuts in taxes and domestic spending and increased military spending.
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What did NAFTA stand for?
North American Free Trade Agreement
100
What is the WWW?
World Wide Web
1991, a protocol for information use on the internet.
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What happened on September 11, 2001?
Attack at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon organized by al-Qaeda.
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What is your opinion on President Obama's leadership?
200
What did the "Reaganomics" lead to?
Led to tax cuts, a reduction in government services, and fewer government regulations.
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What's Tiananmen Square?
Prodemocracy demonstrations involving thousands of young Chinese students.
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What is the Goals 2000?
Legislation that set tough new goals over the coming decades to improve the quality of American schooling.
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Who's proposal was No Child Left Behind?
George W. Bush
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What was the financial crisis of 2008?
A significant economic downturn that began with the housing mortgage market and ultimately led to high unemployment.
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What did Michael Milken (investor for the firm Drexel Burnham Lambert) specialize in?
In so-called junk bonds which could pay high yields.
300
What year was AIDS discovered?
1980
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What system of interconnected computers and servers allows the exchange of e-mail, posting of websites, and other means of instant communication?
Internet
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What happened Monday morning on August 29, 2003?
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in August 2005 leading to the widespread death and destruction.
300
What was the Tea Party?
A protest group whose members sometimes modeled themselves on the Tea Party of the American Revolution and objected to the rising federal debt, Obamacare, and most government regulation.
400
Why was the Soviet Union known as "the evil empire"?
A phrase Reagan used for the Soviet Union in particular and all Communist countries in general.
400
What does ADA stand for? And what is it?
Americans with Disabilities Act
It's a legislation that significantly improved options for people with disabilities.
400
Why did they create the Good Friday Accords?
A 1998 peace agreement to bring a peaceful settlement to the long-standing battles between Catholic and Protestant factions over the government of Northern Ireland.
400
What was "the surge"?
A plan for the handover of authority to a new government for Iraq and an eventual orderly withdrawal of all U.S. forces.
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What year did Same-Sex Marriages become legal?
June 2013
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What was the Strategic Defense Initiative also known as?
"Star Wars"
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What was the code name for the successful offensive against Iraq by the United States and its allies in the 1991 Persian Gulf War?
Operation Desert Storm
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Explain the Defense of Marriage Act.
It said no state was required to recognize a same-sex marriage from another state.
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Name 3 good things George W. Bush has done.
EX: preventing nuclear war between India and Pakistan
found aids research
cut taxes
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How did the health care reform help?
It was to provide universal health care for all Americans.