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National Rifle Association formed to advocate for gun rights
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"The mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society." -- Bosnia, Holocaust, Rwanda, Myanmar, etc
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weapons of mass destruction (three types: biological, chemical, nuclear), term coined in 1937
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political and paramilitary organization in favor of Palestine being a free state
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Palestinian territories occupied by Israel
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spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States"
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chairman of PLO
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American lawyer, jurist, and political figure, served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and as the 16th Chief Justice
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use of racial quotas in college admission unconstitutional, but affirmative action constitutional
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leftist coalition that overthrew Nicaraguan dictatorship under Anastasia Somoza, US financed armed Contra opposition, Sandinistas lost 1990 elections
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political group founded to promote religious and conservative agenda
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President of Iraq, hung in 2006, started Iran-Iraq war
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group believes themselves to be "absolute authority" on religious texts
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Reagan elected president
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Economic growth from lowering taxes and deregulation
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benefits of the wealthy "trickle down" to others
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lowered income tax rates and allowed for expending of assets
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first woman to serve on supreme court
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Profession Air Traffic Controllers Organization went on strike, strike declared illegal and striking workers banned from being rehired by FAA
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limited US gov't activity and assistance in Nicaragua
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Strategic Defense Initiative, aka "Star Wars," called for a land- or space-based shield against nuclear attack
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US marines bombed in Lebanon while on a peacekeeping mission
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ARPANET adopted TCP/IP in 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.
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first woman to appear on major-party presidential ticket running as VP to Walter Mondale
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Carter's VP, ran for president but defeated by Reagan
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Soviet leader committed to reforming the USSR
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openness and restructuring, Gorbachev's reform policies for USSR
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Kansas Congressman, leader of Republican party 85-96
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secret US arms deal that funded conflict in Central America
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deadly outbreak of virus originally only thought to affect gay men, but later found to be prevalent in hemophiliacs, drug users, and other groups
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criminalized hiring of "unauthorized aliens"
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Reagan speech at the Berlin wall asking Gorbachev to end the separation of the two Germanies
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US and the USSR agreed to eliminate their nuclear and conventional ballistic and cruise missiles
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militant Sunni Islamic organization founded by Osama Bin Laden and others that fought against Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 80s
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quote from G HW Bush's speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention
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41st president, republican
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Chinese military fired on protesting civilians
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attempt to overthrow Miguel Noriega, dictator accused of drug trafficking and suppressing democracy
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East Berlin's Communist Party declared that citizens were free to cross the borders.
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American conservative movement within the Republican Party. Members called for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit and lower taxes.
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civil rights law, prohibited discrimination based on disability
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President of Poland starting in 1990, headed Solidarity, the Soviet's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.
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Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait which violated the United Nations rules, refused to withdraw and the Persian Gulf War began
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Bosnia and Kosovo were part of Yugoslavia, began to break up in 1991 by nuclear armed wars.
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Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was signed by United States and USSR to limit strategic offensive arms.
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Gorbachev resigned as Soviet leader and Yeltsin became president of Russia.
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Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall during Bush's presidency and is currently an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Currently being considered for impeachment due to sexual harassment accusations and lying to enter Supreme Court
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1st president of Russian Federation
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self-made billionaire, ran for president 1992 as an independent candidate
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placed restrictions on purchase of guns
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42nd president, vice president was Al Gore
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High health care costs and the growth of the uninsured population upset the public so the Clinton administration tried to pass the Clinton Health Security Act but was unable to due to its attempts at universal coverage
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First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was also elected in the U.S. senate in 2001, the first woman to ever win a public office seat, and became the 67th US secretary of state in 2009.
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45th Vice President, also an environmentalist.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement allowed Canada, Mexico, and the United States to trade with each other trilaterally
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DADT - Clinton administration military policy aimed at the L, G, and B of LGBT.
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a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan accused of providing sanctuary for bin Laden before his death.
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World Trade Organization was founded in 1995 to regulate international trade.
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50th Speaker of the House of Representatives
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truck bombing in downtown Oklahoma city, killed 168
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two reform bills were vetoed by Clinton, so Gingrich and his followers pushed for the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, aimed at substantially reconstructing the welfare system.
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proposal presented by republican party in 1997
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first woman to become the United States Secretary of State and served under Clinton
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inter-governmental political forum from 1997 to 2014 with major industrialized countries in the world that viewed themselves as democracies.
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Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice.
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taxation, spending, and economic policy debates and proposals designed to reduce the Federal budget deficit.
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decision held by the Supreme Court which settled to recount a dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election
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militant saudi-arabian radicals hijacked passenger planes and flew two into the world trade center, one into the pentagon, and inteded to fly one to either White House or Capitol Building, but last plane crashed in PA due to passengers retaking it
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changes in the tax codes passed through the Economic Growth and Tex Relief Reconciliation Act 2001
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43rd President of the United States(2001-2009) and the 46th Governor of Texas(1995-2000)
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energy company that sold electricity to governments for unfair prices, did a lot of damage to the stock market.
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George W. Bush founded HS to protect public security after 9/11
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represented the governments that his administration accused of sponsoring terrorism and seeking arms of mass destruction.
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Most recent update to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
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USA planned to overthrow Saddam Hussein, hence "Iraqi freedom"
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Now The Baghdad Central Prison, prisoners held here were violated physically and sexually through torture, rape, and murder.
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Massachusetts senator (democrat) who ran against George W Bush for nomination, lost.
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makes parties involved reduce greenhouse gas emissions, currently 192 countries involved
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category 5 hurricane that caused damage to the Gulf from Florida to Texas, many angry w Bush for how he handled it
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Supreme Court case -- the second amendment was protected and allowed an individual to possess a firearm.
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Republican nominee for President in the 2008 election and lost against Obama
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6th governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009, ran as vice president under John McCain in the 2008 election.
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first justice of Hispanic descent and the first Latina, she's been serving since 2009 as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
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44th president of the United States and the first African American to become president.
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three primary goals: to make affordable health insurance available to more people, expand the medicare program to more adults under the income poverty level, and to support innovative medical care.
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supreme court case - dealt with the regulation of political campaign spending by organizations, ruled out that political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment and that the government may not keep corporations and unions from spending money to support elections.
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revolutionary wave of violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, and civil wars. main cause: a man who set himself on fire when he was denied from selling fruit to make a living.
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places more regulation on the financial industry
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between forces of the Ba'ath government and forces who want to remove it.
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founder of Al-Qaeda, killed in 2011.
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Republicans in Congress wanted to raise the debt ceiling by deficit reduction, resulted in a fall of the government's credit rating.
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70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007, the Republican party's nominee for President in the 2012 election.
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court case ]over the Voting Rights Act of 1965, struck down the preclearance section calling it unconstitutional.
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Two homemade bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon resulting in three deaths and numerous injured, motive due to religious extremeism
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same-sex marriage was legalized in all 50 states (thanks, Obama! :D)
