Unit 9
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62 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ronald Reagan | Began funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), aka. "Star Wars" |
| Gerald Ford | Urged Americans to Whip Inflation Now |
| Gerald Ford | Pardoned President Nixon of any crimes he may have committed in the Watergate Scandal |
| James Carter | Helped negotiate the Camp David Accords peace treaty between Egypt and Israel |
| James Carter | The Iran hostage crisis contributed to this president not being reelected |
| Ronald Reagan | Said that government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem |
| James Carter | Boycotted 1980 Olympics and put grain embargo against U.S.S.R. for invading Afghanistan |
| Ronald Reagan | Initiated deregulation |
| Menachem Begin | Prime Minister of Israel who signed the Camp David Accords |
| Anwar Sadat | President of Egypt who signed the Camp David Accords |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Last Soviet leader. Signed I.N.F. Treaty with Reagan |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Leader of the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah of Iran |
| Geraldine Ferraro | First female vice presidential candidate of a major political party |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First female Supreme Court Justice |
| Jerry Falwell | Televangelist co-founder of the Moral Majority |
| Oliver North | Involved in the Iran-Contra Scandal |
| Tom Wolfe | Wrote Bonfire of the Vanities. Called 1970s the "Me Decade" |
| Stagflation | A slow down of the economy with rising prices is called |
| Iran-Contra Scandal | Political scandal associated with the Reagan administration |
| Cartel | O.P.E.C. is a |
| Yuppies | These people represented the materialism of 1980s culture |
| James Watt | Environmentalists were unhappy with this Secretary of Interior |
| Proposition 13 | Movement in California to lower property taxes |
| Supply-side Economics | Proper term for trickle down economics |
| Nancy Reagan | First lady behind the Just Say No anti-drug program |
| Steve Jobs | Founder of Apple Computer Company |
| Conservative | Favors tax cuts |
| Liberal | Support for social welfare programs |
| Conservative | Favors less government regulations on businesses |
| Liberal | Supports strong environmental protections |
| William Clinton | Welfare Reform and Family Leave Acts were passes as well as N.A.F.T.A. |
| George H.W. Bush | Engaged the U.S. in the first Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait |
| George H.W. Bush | Said, "read my lips. No new taxes," but ended up raising taxes |
| George W. Bush | No Child Left Behind legislation was passed |
| William Clinton | Sent troops as part of N.A.T.O. peacekeeping in the Balkans to stop ethnic cleansing |
| George W. Bush | Engaged U.S. in invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11 |
| George H.W. Bush | President when the Cold War came to an end |
| William Clinton | Cleared of involvement in the Whitewater Affair |
| George W. Bush | Election decided by a Supreme Court decision |
| William Clinton | Was impeached by the House of Representatives |
| Saddam Hussein | Former dictator of Iraq |
| Lech Walesa | Led Solidarity union in Poland |
| Osama bin Laden | Former leader of al Qaeda |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Last leader of U.S.S.R. |
| Yassir Arafat | Leader of P.L.O. terrorist group |
| Manuel Noriega | Former dictator Panama |
| Al Gore | Lost 2000 election to George W. Bush after Florida vote controversy |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | General in charge of Operation Desert Storm |
| Colin Powell | First African-American Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State |
| Ralph Nader | Consumer advocate who ran for the Green Party in 2000 |
| Timothy McVeigh | Domestic terrorist responsible for Oklahoma City bombing |
| Newt Gingrich | Republican who created Contract With America |
| Ross Perot | Billionaire candidate for Reform Party. Advocated budget cuts |
| Watergate | Scandal involving President Nixon |
| Savings & Loan | Scandal involving President George H.W. Bush |
| Iran-Contra | Scandal involving President Reagan |
| Whitewater | Scandal involving President Clinton |
| False | Since 1980 North Carolina has voted Democratic in presidential elections (except one) |
| False | Asians are the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. currently |
| True | The 1990s was the decade that the internet was first publicly available |
| False | The U.S. population has moved north and east to the rustbelt |
| True | Al Qaeda was not responsible for the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon but was responsible for the 1998 attack on U.S. embassies in Africa, 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, and 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in N.Y. City |
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