Period 9 1980- Present

  • NRA

    NRA

    nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights
  • Religious Fundamentalism

    Religious Fundamentalism

    belief of an individual or a group of individuals in the absolute authority of a sacred religious text
  • Trickle Down Economic

    Trickle Down Economic

    theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

    government-sponsored enterprises
  • Abu Ghraib Prison

    Abu Ghraib Prison

    Abu Ghraib prison now know as The Baghdad Central Prison, was a prison complex in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km west of Baghdad that operated from its construction in the 1950s until its closure in the 2010s.
  • Osama bin Laden

    Osama bin Laden

    Founder of al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide.
  • PLD

    PLD

    organization founded with the purpose of the liberation of Palestine
  • Yasser Arafat

    Yasser Arafat

    chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
  • AIDS

    AIDS

    autoimmune STI's
  • California vs Bakke

    California vs Bakke

    Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process
  • Moral Majority

    Moral Majority

    American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein

    President of Iraq
  • Supply Side Economy

    Supply Side Economy

    theory that argues economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation
  • Sansinistas

    Sansinistas

    member of a left-wing Nicaraguan political organization,
  • Nuclear Proliferation

    Nuclear Proliferation

    spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology
  • Economic Recovery Tax Act

    Economic Recovery Tax Act

    tax rates were indexed for inflation
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan

    40th president of the US
  • PATCO Strike

    PATCO Strike

    12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walked off the job
  • Sandra Day O Connor

    Sandra Day O Connor

    first women in Supreme Court
  • Walter Mondale

    Walter Mondale

    U.S Vice President
  • Boland Amendment

    Boland Amendment

    term describing three U.S. legislative amendments aimed at limiting U.S. government assistance to the Contras in Nicaragua.
  • Beirut Bombings

    Beirut Bombings

    acts of terrorism
  • Geraldine Ferraro

    Geraldine Ferraro

    first female vice presidential candidate r
  • SDI

    SDI

    missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack
  • John Kerry

    John Kerry

    American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017.
  • Iran- Contra Affair

    Iran- Contra Affair

    political scandal
  • Glasnost and Perestroika

    Glasnost and Perestroika

    political movement for reformation within the Communist Party
  • Bob Doyle

    Bob Doyle

    merican former politician and attorney who represented Kansas
  • Enron

    Enron

    An American energy company founded in 1985, based in Houston, Texas
  • William Rehnquist

    William Rehnquist

    one of the most successful supreme court justices
  • Immigration Act of 1986

    Immigration Act of 1986

    act of engaging in a pattern or practice of knowingly hiring an unauthorized alien
  • INF agreement

    INF agreement

    required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanently forswear all of their nuclear missiles
  • Tear down this wall

    Tear down this wall

    a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin
  • John McCain

    John McCain

    John McCain III is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona since 1987. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.
  • "Read my lips, no new taxes"

    "Read my lips, no new taxes"

    phrase spoken George H. W. Bush
  • Al-Qaeda

    Al-Qaeda

    a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s
  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush

    41st United States President
  • Tiananmen Square

    Tiananmen Square

    Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square and fired on civilians
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall

    brought down the wall and brought Germany together
  • Invasion of Panama

    Invasion of Panama

    US invades Panama
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    russian leader
  • Lech Walesa

    Lech Walesa

    Polish President
  • Persian Gulf War

    Persian Gulf War

    international conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
  • American with disabilities act

    American with disabilities act

    civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability
  • Failure of Health Reform

    Failure of Health Reform

    collapse of health care reform in the first two years of the Clinton administration will go down as one of the great lost political opportunities in American history
  • Deficit Reduction Budget

    Deficit Reduction Budget

    refers to taxation, spending, and economic policy debates and proposals designed to reduce the Federal budget deficit
  • Ethnic Cleaning

    Ethnic Cleaning

    attempt to get rid of members of an unwanted ethnic group in order to establish an ethnically homogenous geographic area.
  • Breakup of the Soviet Union

    Breakup of the Soviet Union

    officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union
  • Boris Yeltsin

    Boris Yeltsin

    1st Russian President
  • Start l and ll

    Start l and ll

    start l - congress passed laws to protect consumers start 2-
    strategic arms reduction talk, 30 percent less nuclear weapons
  • Clarence Thomas

    Clarence Thomas

    2nd African American Supreme Court justice
  • Ross Perot

    Ross Perot

    American business magnate and former politician
  • Kyoto Accord

    Kyoto Accord

    An international treaty whereby countries agree to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases they emit if their neighbors do likewise
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton

    42nd United States President
  • Brady Bill

    Brady Bill

    requires a waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks
  • EU

    EU

    political and economic union of 28 member states
  • Internet

    Internet

    world wide web was created
  • Al Gore

    Al Gore

    former vice president
  • Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton is an American politician, former diplomat, and First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
  • Don't ask , don't tell

    Don't ask , don't tell

    official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians,
  • Contract with America

    Contract with America

    conservative actions
  • Taliban

    Taliban

    A Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war within that country.
  • Newt Gingrich

    Newt Gingrich

    50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  • Oklahoma City Bombing

    Oklahoma City Bombing

    domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
  • Bosnia and Kosovo

    Bosnia and Kosovo

    he Bosnian government asked NATO to help defend against Bosnian Serbs
  • World Trade Organization

    World Trade Organization

    intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade
  • Welfare Reform

    Welfare Reform

    a movement to change the federal government's social welfare policy
  • Madeleine Albright

    Madeleine Albright

    first woman to have become the United States
  • G-8

    G-8

    intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade
  • Clinton Impeachment

    Clinton Impeachment

    impeachment of Clinton due to inappropriate relationship
  • Bush vs Gore

    Bush vs Gore

    2000 Presidental Election
  • 9/11

    9/11

    A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic group al-Qaeda in New York City
  • George W Bush

    George W Bush

    43rd President
  • Bush Tax Cuts

    Bush Tax Cuts

    tax codes
  • No Child Left Behind

    No Child Left Behind

    federal law that provides money for extra educational assistance for poor children
  • Homeland Security

    Homeland Security

    A cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security
  • "Axis of Evil"

    "Axis of Evil"

    Was used by George W. Bush in his state of the union address, was used to describe governments that his administration accused of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction.
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom

    Operation Iraqi Freedom

    The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein.
  • Mitt Romney

    Mitt Romney

    Governor of Massachusetts
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina

    A very destructive and deadly category 5 hurricane that caused damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas
  • Housing Bubble

    Housing Bubble

    Was a real estate bubble that affected more than half of the United States
  • West Bank and Gaza Strip

    West Bank and Gaza Strip

    Palestinian territories
  • WMD's

    WMD's

    A weapon of mass destruction is 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.
  • Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin

    Alaska governor
  • Great Recession

    Great Recession

    a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country.
  • D.C vs Heller

    D.C vs Heller

    held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm
  • Sonia Sotomayor

    Sonia Sotomayor

    first Latina justice
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama

    Barack Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017
  • Citizens United

    Citizens United

    a landmark U.S. constitutional law, campaign finance, and corporate law case dealing with regulation of political campaign spending by organizations
  • Arab Spring

    Arab Spring

    Arab revolutions,
  • Dodd Frank Act

    Dodd Frank Act

    Designed to improve regulations of banking and investment firms and to protect future bailouts
  • Tea Party

    Tea Party

    grassroots conservative political movement
  • Affordable Care Act

    Affordable Care Act

    comprehensive health insurance reforms
  • Syrian Civil War

    Syrian Civil War

    conflict in Syria fought primarily between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic
  • Shelby County v. Holder

    Shelby County v. Holder

    signed into law as a defense against discriminatory voting practices,
  • Boston Marathon Bombing

    Boston Marathon Bombing

    terrorist attack
  • Debt Ceiling

    Debt Ceiling

    Limitations set on the amount of money the government is able to borrow
  • Same Sex Marriage

    Same Sex Marriage

    U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all state bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional