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Palestine Liberation Organization- has employed the use of violence and was considered a terrorist organization by the US and Israel until their acceptance of the UN Security Council regulations and denouncement of “violence and terrorism”.
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Chairman of the PLO from 1969-2004 and was the president of the Palestinian National Authority. He helped found Fatah, an organization which worked towards the disestablishment of Israel and putting back a Palestinian state in its place.
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National Rifle Association that advocates for the right to own guns and gun rights in the name of protecting America's constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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Served on the Supreme Court for 33 years. As Chief-justice at the time, Rehnquist presided over the trial for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
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Also called Reaganomics, this theory states that economic growth can happen by lowering taxes and decreasing regulations.
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A case between the University of California and Allan Bakke. The University of California held 16/ 100 places for minority students. Bakke who applied twice and was rejected and who’s GPA and testing scores were better than any of the minority accepted in the two times Bakke applied, contended that his rejection was based on race solely.
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President of Iraq. Was brutal in his dictatorship and led invasions into Iran and Kuwait resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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A Nicaraguan democratic socialist party made up of both English and Spanish members. The Contras, a US backed militia, was made (1981) to overthrow the Sandinista government after they came under attack for mass executions and oppression of the indigenous people.
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A political organization having to do with the Republican party and right-minded Christians. Was effective in Republican presidential victories and the political force of Christians.
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Loyalty to a set of beliefs and rejection of different opinions.
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President of the United States from 1981-1989
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An virus that had a major outbreak in the 70's and 80's, mostly stapled as being a disease reserved for gay people. Under Reagan, little was done to alleviate the problem.
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Economic theory that states that the reduction of taxes for businesses and the wealthy will benefit society at large. It is a form of supply-side economics.
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A federal law that was to motivate economic growth by reducing individual income tax and expense depreciable property.
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The union of PATCO went on strike looking for better working conditions, better wages, and a workweek of 32 hours. By doing this the union violated the rule stating that federal government employees cannot hold strikes.
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She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Strategic Defense Initiative- a proposed defense system to protect the US from missiles.
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During the Lebanese Civil war, two truck bombs hit buildings in which US and French peacekeepers were in. The Islamic Jihad took responsibility and said the bombings were to get the peacekeeping MNF out of Lebanon.
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She was the first Hispanic Justice
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Prior vice president to Jimmy Carter, Mondale won the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination, eventually losing to Reagan. Mondale pushed for a nuclear freeze, the ERA, increase in taxes, and a reduced U.S. public debt.
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First female vice presidential candidate (to Walter Mondale) for a major American political party.
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Three legislative amendments limiting US Government assistance to the Contra militia in Nicaragua.
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The 8th and last leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet, and President of the Soviet Union.
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Longest serving republican leader in the Senate of Kansas, ran up against Bill Clinton.
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- Glasnost and Perestroika were political slogans. The former was meant for more openness and transparency of the government and the latter was meant to be the restructuring of the Soviets political and economic systems.
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He is a senator who has been influential in many important foreign affairs.
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Act that prevented hiring undocumented immigrants, but would offer citizenship of those living in the US for over 5+ years in an attempt to control the borders and illegal immigration.
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A political scandal during Reagan’s second term, in which senior officials secretly sold arms to Iran, which was under an arms embargo, in order to be able to fund the Contras and release US hostages.
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Treaty that eliminated all (short and immediate range) nuclear and conventional missiles and their launchers. The treaty did not cover sea launched missiles.
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A famous line from Ronald Reagan’s speech made in West Berlin, calling for Mikhail Gorbachev to open up the wall that had been splitting West and East Berlin since 1961.
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A conservative social welfare nonprofit organization
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The organization of terrorists who were responsible for the attacks on 9/11. There leader was Osama bin Laden
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A campaign promise by George Bush to appease the Republican/Conservative wing to help him win the election.
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Occurred 10 years after the transfer of control of the Panama Canal from the US to Panama. During the invasion, Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian leader, general and dictator, was overthrown.
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New regulations allowing travel between West and East Germany came through to the party boss and spokesman without a time delay, therefore when the broadcast to the people went out, the guards at the gates were too overwhelmed to regulate the influx of people going through that they let them go through.
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Protest turned massacre caused by the death of Hu Yaobang, political corruption, nepotism, inflation, and economic reform.
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Vice president to Reagan and the 41st president of the United States. Many foreign policy legislations were carried out during Bush 41’s term.
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First started as an attempt to make a 'network of networks' by ARPANET that soon became modern internet known today made by Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf.
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The mass killing of a certain ethnic group from certain territories. Relevant in the case of Serbia and Kosovo where brutal attacks were carried in order to force Muslims to relocate.
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It was a reform that required everyone to have some type of health care, and his proposal was to push a universal health care for each citizen or resident. This would fail due to a lack of Democratic Senators to push the bill.
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An act that prevents discrimination based on disability (this includes in careers, transportation, businesses, etc). It was signed into law by George Bush.
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A war fought by conjoined forces of 35 nations led by the US in response to the invasion and annexation of Kuwait by Iraq.
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Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, gave his powers to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, and stated that the office of “soviet president” was extinct. In December 1991, the Republics of the Soviet Union were officially granted self-governance.
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President of Poland, labor activist, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.
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President of Poland, labor activist, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.
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Palestinian territories under the control of Israel after the Six-Day war.
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During the Balkan Wars under a dictator, ethnic cleansing was promoted. Bosnia and Kosovo were fighting for independence during this time of oppression.
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A campaign promise by George Bush to appease the Republican/Conservative wing to help him win the election.
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The first START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) between the US and USSR worked on the reduction and limitation of strategic weapons. This resulted in the elimination of about 80% of all nuclear weapons that were in existence then. START II, between the US and Russia worked to ban the use of MIRVs and on ICBMs. Eventually SORT came to be, limiting warheads per country to be 1,700-2,200.
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Was elected to the post of President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and became the President of Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved and Gorbachev handed over his powers to Yeltsin.
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He ran in 1992 on the Independent ticket for the presidential election and ended up curating 20% of the popular vote. His main goal was to solve the debt issue, though due to a split in Democratic votes he did not win.
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First Lady from 1993 until 2001 to President Bill Clinton. First female senator from New York. Secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Ran for presidency in 2006, but lost.
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45th Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton, advocated environmental awareness.
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Eu, also known as the European Union, was created after the 1993 Treaty of Maastricht that created political and economic ties between western European countries, that then gradually took in eastern European countries as time went on.
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Helped placed restrictions on buying guns with background checks and waiting periods, with the assassination attempt of Reagan being the catalyst for this bill being passed.
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The 42nd president of the United States who was a Democrat. However, he was the impeached due to sexual relations with a White House intern, making him the second impeached president throughout all of American history.
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A political movement in Afghanistan which is raging war in the country since 2016 but was founded in '94
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A ten-point plan put out by Republicans that helped them gain the majority of seats of senate by a mass cooperation of over 300 republicans.
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America, Canada, and Mexico engaging in North American Free-Trade that created tariff-free goods, services, communication, and patent protection within this agreement.
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This was an intended compromise that you could not prevent closeted gay people from joining the military, nor try to hunt and pick them out. However, openly gay people could be barred from entering service.
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Known as the World Trade Organization that regulates international trade that was promoted by Clinton that came after the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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The spread of nuclear weapons to other nations that may have not possessed them.
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A domestic terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols that were angered by the handling of Ruby Ridge.
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Succeeded in having over 300 republicans sign the Contract of America in 1994 that gained them a high amount of representation in the Senate and the majority of the House positions. This was a triumph in the Conservative movement.
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Congress passed the marriage defense act which stated that marriage was just between a man and a woman, but then some of the states made their own laws that allowed same sex marriage.
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Signed by Bill Clinton that made cuts into welfare benefits for legal and illegal immigrants and made it harder for certain people to find employment.
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The Group of Eight, consisting of US, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Russia. Controls World Bank, IMF, and GATT. North American Free Trade Agreement.
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First woman to serve as secretary of state, also tried to devise peace in the Middle East.
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Bill Clinton was impeached for suspected sexual relationships within the White House with Monica Lewinsky (plus obstruction of justice and perjury), making him the only president besides Andrew Johnson.
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A recount had been instated during the Florida election, which Bush was highly against and said it went against the equality within the system. The Supreme Court favored him, making him president.
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An energy company that had a big financial scandal due to accounting fraud in 2001
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The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 signed by George W Bush that cut income tax and eliminated estate tax.
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Elected president in 1988, spent eight years as vice president under Ronald Reagan. His popularity declined by economic decline experienced during late term in his presidency.
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Multiple terrorist attacks by airplane crashing into the twin towers, pentagon and one heading for the white house.
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This phrase was used by President Bush to describe the countries who sought after weapons of mass destruction.
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"the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive to the national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorism, and minimize the damage from attacks that do occur"
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Educational law that provided money for assistance of poor children to help pioneer their educational success but has turned out to be more of a problem than a solution.
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The war in Iraq which started in 2003 which allowed the US to overthrow the leader and conflicts ended in 2010
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Weapons that are unconventional in war that can wipe out a significant amount of lives. Used in many wars and eventually banned, it became the primary reason why the US invaded Iraq.
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This put into place the Kyoto Protocol which was a way of countries to limit green house gas emissions and help fight the probable man-caused problem of global warming.
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A hurricane level 5 that was destructive and catastrophic to the states by the gulf of mexico. At least 1,245 people died.
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Governor of Alaska in 2006 but resigned by her 2nd year. She was the youngest person and the first woman to be elected for governor in Alaska.
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A time of general economic decline. It varied from country to country, when it happened, but most countries felt the effects of it.
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A period where real estate value increase until became sustainable, and then it lowers again. this "Bubble" bursted in 2007 during the financial crisis.
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Home loan corporations created to expand the mortgages combined in 2008 through government intervention.
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This case made the supreme court rule that D.C.'s restricted gun laws were unconstitutional.
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conservative political movement that opposed Obama's economic and healthcare policies
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President of the United States from 2009 until 2017.
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many Arab revolutions that continued from 2010 until 2012.
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Also known as Obamacare, it was put in to place by newly sworn in Barrack Obama
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A financial regulation that was out into place by President Obama after the financial crises of 2008
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A prison in Iraq where the US had taken over to hold and torture suspected terrorists. It was closed in 2010
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Ongoing multi-sided civil war that started in 2011 and is still going on today.
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It is the legislation that sets a limit on the amount of debt that the US treasury is issued. It limits the amount of money that the government can borrow.
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The man responsible for 9/11 who was killed in 2011 after the US put a $25 million bounty on his head.
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Ran for president in 2012 against Barack Obama but lost.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev bombed the Boston marathon in 2013 setting off two homemade bombs killing three people and injuring several hundred other people.
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68th secretary of state from 2013 to 2017.Ran for president in 2004 but lost to George W Bush.
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In this case the US Supreme Court ruled that states can not make their own voting rights, that it goes against the constitution.
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Spending and taxation proposals to reduce federal budget deficit.
