Presidents
This president was impeached for lying under oath about an affair with a White House intern.
Who is Bill Clinton?
This structure was knocked down by protestors in 1989. Two years earlier, Ronald Reagan stood nearby it and demanded, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
What is the Berlin Wall?
This country was invaded by the US less than one month after the attacks on September 11, 2001.
What is Afghanistan?
In the wake of the murder of a Black boy named Trayvon Martin, the police killing of Black man named Eric Garner, and other instances of police brutality, this rights movement emerged with the help of social media.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This new technology developed in the early 1980s that allowed computers to communicate with each other became more widely available to the public in the early 1990s. It transformed the US economy.
What is the Internet?
Who was George H.W. Bush?
This president banned travel from 5 majority Muslim countries. Protestors dubbed this a "Muslim Ban" and gathered at airports to show their displeasure with the policy.
Who is Donald Trump?
This is the terrorist group that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.
What is al Qaeda?
Driven by fiscal conservatism, this political party offered the Contract with America in 1994, calling for cuts in federal spending and term limits for politicians.
What is the Republican Party?
In 1990-1991, the United States experienced a brief recession primarily caused by this conflict, which resulted in a spike in oil prices.
What is the Gulf War?
This political scandal somewhat harmed Ronald Reagan's reputation as president, but he ended his second term as one of the most popular presidents of all time, earning him the nickname The Teflon President - no criticism or scandal ever stuck to him.
What was the Iran Contra Affair OR Arms for Hostages?
Many people have sought this status at the US border in the last decade, as they escape violence and political repression in their countries.
What is Refugee Status OR Asylum?
This political organization ruled Afghanistan in 2001. They also rule Afghanistan today.
What is the Taliban?
What was the Battle of Seattle?
The US wields significant influence in this international organization, formed in 1995, that regulates and facilitates international trade.
What is the World Trade Organization?
Even though Democrats had created this government program, Bill Clinton supported a change to it in the mid-1990s that aimed to transition individuals from government assistance to gainful employment, emphasizing self-sufficiency and job training.
What is welfare (Aid to Families with Dependent Children OR Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)?
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This political philosophy argues for more aggressive intervention and nation building in foreign countries to promote American capitalism abroad.
What are Weapons of Mass Destruction?
This internet based movement that started in 2006 called out high profile celebrities, politicians, and other men in power for misogyny and sexual harassment.
What is the Me Too/Times Up Movement?
This continental trade agreement between Mexico, The US, and Canada, lifted tariffs and established easy movement of goods and jobs across their borders.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
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This presidential candidate learned an inconvenient truth when he won the popular vote but lost the presidential election in 2000 after a 5-4 Supreme Court decision stopped a recount of votes in Florida.
This initiative, nicknamed after a popular sci-fi franchise, was proposed by Ronald Reagan as a strategic defense against ballistic missile threats during the Cold War.
What is Star Wars?
This terrorist group, which did not exist prior to the War on Terror, emerged during the Iraq War and Syrian Civil War in 2014 and attacked the US-backed Iraqi government.
ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) OR Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
This protest movement in 2011 criticized the bailouts of big banks in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
What is Occupy Wall Street?
In addition to the banking industry, the Big Three corporations of this industry were bailed out by the US government in 2008-2009 after they were on the road to financial ruin in the wake of the 2007 recession.
What was the automobile industry?