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A political movement uniting Palestine Arabs in an effort to create an independent state state of Palestine (Palestine Liberation Organization).
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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization or PACTO was a United States trade union that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike that was declared illegal and broken by the Reagan Administration
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an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years
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an American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States
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A landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.
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Political actin group formed in the 1970's to further a conservative and religious agenda, including the allowance of prayer in schools and strict laws against abortion.
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A macroeconomic theory that argues economic growth can be most effectively created by by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation
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originally labeled the "gay plague" but soon started affecting drug users, hemophiliacs, and minorities
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President Ronald Reagan helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured the Soviet Union to end the Cold War. He solidified the conservative agenda for decades after his presidency
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A law that lowered income tax rates and allowed for expensing of depreciable assets
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a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan to 2006. She is the first woman to serve on the Court
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An economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term
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Movement whose objectives were to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy where every word of the bible is interpreted literally
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A term describing three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting U.S. government assistance to the Contras in Nicaragua.
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Was the leader of Iran during the middle of the Cold War. Although initially supported by the U.S. to fight Iran, his invasion of Kuwait made him a prime enemy of America
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SDI was Reagan's intent to purse a high technology missile defense system which was referred to as SDI or Star Wars
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Two truck bombs struck buildings housing Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) peacekeepers, specifically against United States and French service members, killing 241 U.S. and 58 French peacekeepers, 6 civilians and the 2 suicide attackers. A group called Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombings and said that the attacks were to get the MNF out of Lebanon
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an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party
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member of a left-wing Nicaraguan political organization, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which came to power in 1979 after overthrowing the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Opposed during most of their period of rule by the US-backed Contras, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990.
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A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arm embargo
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL is a Russian and former Soviet politician. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.
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Refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system established by the Communist Party
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former politician of attorney who served as republican leader of the U.S. senate
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Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas
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law incriminated the act of engaging in a pattern or practice of knowingly hiring an unauthorized alien and established financial and other penalties for those employing illegal immigrants.
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The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate Range and Shorter-Range Missiles.
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"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961
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spoken by George W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention
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Code named Operation Just Cause occurred between mid-December 1989 and late January 1990. It occurred during the administration of President George H. W. Bush and ten years after the Torrijos–Carter Treaties were ratified to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. to Panama by 1 January 2000.
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George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
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After several weeks of demonstrations, Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square on June 4 and fired civilians. Estimates of the death toll range from several hundred to thousands.
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As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
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Lech Wałęsa is a retired Polish politician and labor activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. Wikipedia
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international conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. ... Egypt and several other Arab nations joined the anti-Iraq coalition and contributed forces to the military buildup, known as Operation Desert Shield.
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civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability
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used to send graphics and multimedia across the world
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Officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union. Dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent republics, Conclusion of the Cold War
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a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
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START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms
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Serbian dictator carried out series of attacks to suppress independence movements
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African American jurist, nominated to the supreme court in 1991. Accused of sexual harassment shortly after.
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national rifle association, advocates for the protection of the second amendment of the United States Bill of Rights and the promotion of firearm ownership rights
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the systematic forced removal of ethnic racial or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful group
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the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons- applicable nuclear technology and info to nations not recognized as 'nuclear weapon states' by the nonproliferation treaty
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American business magnate and former politician. Ran for president in 1992 independently
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treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
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Clinton presided over a historic meeting at the White House between Israeli premier Yitzshak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir. They agreed in principle on self-rule for the Palestinians within Israel.
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political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe
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Palestinian territories and occupied Palestinian territories under the control of Israel
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served as the 42nd president
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Proposed by Bill Clinton, the goal was to come up with universal health care for everyone. It ultimately backfired against multiple insurance companies
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U.S. federal law that requires a waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks for people who want handguns
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to shrink the federal deficit to its lowest level in more than a decade
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American politician who served as the 45th vice president of the U.S.
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a document released by the United States Republican Party during the Congressional election campaign
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official U.S. policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, insulted by the Clinton Administration
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North American Free Trade Agreement, signed by Canada, Mexico, and the U.S creating a trilateral trade block
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domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City.
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world trade organization, intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade
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American politician and author, born in Pennsylvania, later representing Georgia in Congress, 50th speaker of the U.S.
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first woman to have become the U.S. secretary of state
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group of eight, intergovernmental political forum from 1997-2014.
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House of Representatives, two charges of prejury and obstruction of justice
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a decision of the U.S. supreme court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election
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served as the 43rd president of the U.S.
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changes to the U.S. tax code passed originally during the presidency of George W. Bush and extended to Obama's presidency
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series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Queda on the U.S.
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provides money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for their improvements in their academic progress
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to describe governments that his administration accused of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction
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cabinet department of the U.S. federal government with responsibilities in public security
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a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures, natural structures, or the biosphere
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armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein
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people of the U.S. army and CIA committed a series of human rights violations against detainees, including physical and sexual abuse
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extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone
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period of economic decline observed in world markets
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held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock" violated this guarantee.
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Republican vice president candidate with John McCain in the 2008 election, the second woman to run for vice president of a major party, and the first Republican
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run-up in housing prices fueled by demand, speculation and exuberance
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Senior U.S. senator of Arizona, Republican nominee for U.S. president, but lost to Obama
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government sponsored enterprises, this means they are privately owned, but receive support from the federal government
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44th president of the United States and the first African American president
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an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. She has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic descent and the first Latina
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The Tea Party movement is an American conservative movement within the Republican Party. Members of the movement have called for a reduction of the national debt of the United States and federal budget deficit by reducing government spending, and for lower taxes.
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67th secretary of state and former first lady
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a landmark U.S. constitutional law, campaign finance, and corporate law case dealing with regulation of political campaign spending by organizations.
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The law has 3 primary goals: Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.
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The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by President Bashar al-Assad
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It made changes in the American financial regulatory environment that affected all federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every part of the nation's financial services industry
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an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.
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two homemade bombs detonated 12 seconds and 210 yards apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs.
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Requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices
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Limitations set on the amount of money the government is able to borrow
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68th U.S. secretary of State from 2013-2017
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held that the right of same-sex couples to marry on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples
