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The U.S. President who resigned as a result of the Watergate Scandal.
Richard Nixon
The Vietnam War was part of a broader conflict known as the.............
The Cold War
Which U.S. President eventually withdrew all American combat troops from Vietnam?
Richard Nixon
In the 1980s, a new and scary disease began to affect Americans, especially people in the LGBTQ+ community. What was this disease?
AIDS/HIV
The process that intensified in the 1990s when the world became increasingly interconnected and interdependent, particularly in terms of economics, politics, and culture
globalization
The U.S. President who initiated the War on Terror after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
George W. Bush
"Corrupt bargain” refers to........
the pardoning of Nixon by new President Gerald Ford
From the late 1800s until the beginning of World War II, which country had colonial control of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?
France
A constant problem in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, made worse by bad farming, government decisions, and weather.
Soviet food shortages
What major terrorist attack happened in the 1990s on the U.S. soil?
The Oklahoma City bombing
The U.S. President who held two terms in the 1980s and is associated with the conservative tide.
Ronald Reagan
Foreign relations principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
Realpolitik
What was the Nixon's policy of Vietnamization about?
Withdrawing U.S. troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
The official purpose of the tax cuts Reagan supported was to.....
to stimulate consumer spending and investment
The name of the European region where President Clinton and the NATO allies were involved in a conflict.
The Balkans (former Yugoslavia)
Vietnamese leader who was a prominent figure in the struggle for Vietnam's independence against its colonial rule?
Ho Chi Minh
The economic policies enacted during Ronald Reagan's presidency, primarily focused on tax cuts, deregulation, and reduced government spending.
Reaganomics
What was the nickname given to young Americans who were eligible for the draft but chose to avoid military service during the Vietnam War?
Draft dodgers
Announced by President Reagan in 1983, the “Strategic Defense Initiative” was more commonly known by the nickname.......
Star Wars
California’s Proposition 187 (passed in 1994) denied undocumented immigrants access to.....
public and social services such as education, healthcare, etc.
A Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev
A 1990s trade deal signed by the U.S., Canada and Mexico that cut tariffs and boost trade between these three nations.
NAFTA
This massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops shocked the American public and increased opposition to the war.
My Lai Massacre
This event in 1989 marked the symbolic end of the Cold War
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Before becoming president, Bill Clinton served as the governor of this southern U.S. state.
Arkansas