Period 9

By amayah
  • California v. Bakke

    California v. Bakke

    Regents of the University of California against Bakke to allow more than race to be one of several factors in college admission policy decision made the supreme court
  • PLO

    PLO

    Known as the Palestine Liberation Organization was organized to liberate Palestine through armed struggle and violence in Israel
  • Supply- Side Economics

    Supply- Side Economics

    Theory argued saying that lower taxes and decrease regulations will help economic growth
  • Trickle Down Economics

    Trickle Down Economics

    theory that advocates reducing taxes from businesses and the wealthy
  • Glasnost and Perestroika

    Glasnost and Perestroika

    Was a political movement to reformation within the communist party of the soviet associated with soviet leader Mikhail
  • Religious Fundamentalism

    Religious Fundamentalism

    defined as militantly anti-modernist Protestant evangelicalism to George mason
  • Moral Majority

    Moral Majority

    Was a political group made of conservatives and fundamentalist Christians helping in the election of 1908
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein

    Leader of Iraqi and invaded Iran for territorial disputation of Shatt Al Arab
  • Walter Mondale

    Walter Mondale

    Former vice president and ran for president but lost to Reagan
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan

    Was the 40th president served 1981-1989
  • Economic Recovery Tax Act

    Economic Recovery Tax Act

    Law that lowered income tax rates and incentives for small business and saving
  • PACTO

    PACTO

    Stands for Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Reagan said had to pay 1,000 fine each day workers were on strike. Fired everyone
  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    Sandra Day O'Connor

    Served in the Supreme Court as the first women
  • Boland Amendment

    Boland Amendment

    The three government branches use ti limit government assistance in Nicaragua
  • Beirut Bombings

    Beirut Bombings

    Terrorism in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war
  • Lech Walesa

    Lech Walesa

    Former president of Poland won the noble prize of 1983 for making peace for human rights
  • Geraldine Ferraro

    Geraldine Ferraro

    First woman vice president of a political party(democratic)
  • SDI

    SDI

    The U.S missile defense system from nuclear weapons
  • Iran contra affair

    Iran contra affair

    Scandal during Reagan second presidency
  • William Rehnquist

    William Rehnquist

    Appointed to the Supreme Court by Nixon and Reagan made him Chief of justice
  • immigration Act of 1986

    immigration Act of 1986

    Had to have an legal document to work and those without one were unemployed
  • Tear down this Wall

    Tear down this Wall

    Speech made by Reagan to the Soviet leader to tear down the Berlin wall and open the barrier
  • INF

    INF

    Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the U.S and Soviets to not use nuclear weapons
  • Yasser Arafat

    Yasser Arafat

    Leader of the PLO for 40 years even during the war with israel
  • "Read my lips, no new taxes"

    "Read my lips, no new taxes"

    Said by former president George H.W Bush in the 1988 Republican convention
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Eastern Berlin communist talked about the relationship with the West and allowed GDR to cross the boarder
  • George H.W. Bush

    George H.W. Bush

    Was president of the U.S from 1989-1993 before was the Governor of Texas.
  • Tienanmen Square

    Tienanmen Square

    By the center capitol Beijing the Chinese troops entered and fired at citizen killing 100-1000
  • Panama Invasion

    Panama Invasion

    The U.s invade panama killing 600 people trying to stop the president for drug trafficking
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    was a president of the Soviet union in 1990
  • Americans with Disabilities Act

    Americans with Disabilities Act

    Passed by congress prohibiting discrimination to people with disabilities in employment public services, public commendationstelecommunication, and
  • Failure of Health Reform(1990's)

    Failure of Health Reform(1990's)

    Happened the first two years of Clinton presidency. greatest political lost
  • "Ethnic Cleansing"

    "Ethnic Cleansing"

    Treatments used on certain ethnic groups during the conflict in Yugoslavia
  • Nuclear Proliferation

    Nuclear Proliferation

    Treaty that is used to prevent nuclear use and weapons
  • West bank and the Gaza Strip

    West bank and the Gaza Strip

    Palestine was divided and people were fleeing Gaza the capital to the west bank
  • AIDS

    AIDS

    Someone had died from immigration coming in by aids so stopping the the migration would end aids but it already spread
  • Deficit Reduction Budget

    Deficit Reduction Budget

    George H.W Bush signed an act to make taxes higher
  • Breaking uo the Soviet Union

    Breaking uo the Soviet Union

    The soviet president resigned letting a Russian president enter from an independent country
  • Boris Yaltsin

    Boris Yaltsin

    New president after the collapse of the Soviet Union
  • Persian Gulf War

    Persian Gulf War

    Between Iraq and the United Nation led by the U.S after Iraqi invaded Kuwait
  • Clarence Thomas

    Clarence Thomas

    Replaced Thurgood Marshall in supreme court justice and was the opposite by being conservative
  • NRA

    NRA

    An organization that advocates gun rights
  • Bosnia and Kosovo

    Bosnia and Kosovo

    Part of Yugoslavia fighting to break away for independence
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton

    Was the 42nd president of the U.S from 1993-2001
  • Brady Bill

    Brady Bill

    Federal law saying handgun have to have a record of the purchase and background check on the buyer
  • EU

    EU

    Was made to make peace and stop bloody wars between it's neighboring countries.
  • Newt Gingrich

    Newt Gingrich

    First Republican speaker in the House in 40 years
  • Start 1 and and 2

    Start 1 and and 2

    Between the U.S and Soviet Socialist Republican to reduce offensive arms
  • "Don't ask, don't tell"

    "Don't ask, don't tell"

    Policy on military for gays, bis, lesbians to serve made by Clinton
  • NAFTA

    NAFTA

    An agreement for North America with Canada, U.S and Mexico for free trade
  • Contact with America

    Contact with America

    Document signed by 54 republican in office and 9 senates
  • Taliban

    Taliban

    Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan
  • Oklahoma City Bombing

    Oklahoma City Bombing

    terrorist truck attack filled of explosives on the federal building
  • WTO

    WTO

    World trade organization for large corporate
  • Internet

    Internet

    The first internet was launched and used by 16 million
  • Ross Perot

    Ross Perot

    Was a business leader and sold General Motors then ran for independent candidate for U.S president
  • Bob Dole

    Bob Dole

    Ran for president in the 1996 election and lost to Clinton for his second term
  • Al Gore

    Al Gore

    George W. Bush campaign was against him for president
  • Welfare Reform

    Welfare Reform

    Clinton signed nation welfare system into one that requires work time limited assistance
  • Madeleine Albright

    Madeleine Albright

    First women to be U.S secretary of State
  • G-8

    G-8

    Highly industrial countries like France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Russia would met up for meetings about global issues
  • Kyoto Accord

    Kyoto Accord

    International treaty that extends the united nation 1996 frame work to reduce greenhouses and emissions
  • Clinton Impeachment

    Clinton Impeachment

    House of reps. sent lLinton on trail for two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice.
  • Bush v Gore

    Bush v Gore

    The supreme court had to make the decision in 1998 for presidency in florida
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush

    43rd president of the U.S and
  • NO child left behind

    NO child left behind

    Passed by congress to give extra money to education assistance to the poor
  • Enron

    Enron

    Energy company scandal that collapsed effecting thousand by putting them in bankrupt
  • 9/11

    9/11

    Islamic terrorist attack that hit 4 different coordinates
  • Al Qaeda

    Al Qaeda

    Terrorist group that hijacked the planes in 9/11
  • Osama Bin Laden

    Osama Bin Laden

    Leader of the Al Qaeda in the 9/11 attack
  • Bush Tax Cuts

    Bush Tax Cuts

    Change of tax codes passed by Bush
  • Homeland Security

    Homeland Security

    Cabinet in the federal government responsibilities to public security
  • "Axis of Evil"

    "Axis of Evil"

    Bush repeated it throughout presidency that administrators were seeking weapons and sponsoring terrorism
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom

    Operation Iraqi Freedom

    Iraq war between the U.S for invading Iraq
  • Abu Ghraib Prison

    Abu Ghraib Prison

    Prison in Iraq used during the war but closed in 2010 do to violation
  • John Kerry

    John Kerry

    Served as secretary of state from 2012-2017. ran for president in 2004
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina

    One of the deadliest hurricanes that hit from central Florida to Texas along the coast of the Gulf
  • Housing Bubble

    Housing Bubble

    Real estate bubble affecting housing causing them to increase
  • WMD's

    WMD's

    Weapons of destruction nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that bring harm
  • Great Recession

    Great Recession

    Decline in economics based on world markets
  • John McCain

    John McCain

    Ran against Obama in the 2008 election and lost
  • D.C v. Heller

    D.C v. Heller

    Case that let's protects the rights of handheld weapon be possess
  • Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton

    was the first lady , married to Bill Clinton but also ran for president, 67th secretary of state
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama

    44th president and first black president
  • Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin

    Governor of Alaska
  • Sonia Sotomayor

    Sonia Sotomayor

    First supreme court justice that is Hispanic
  • Arab SPring

    Arab SPring

    Arab revolution that as violent and non violent
  • Dodd Fank Act

    Dodd Fank Act

    Regulation on the financial industrial in the hands of government
  • Affordable Care Act

    Affordable Care Act

    Obamacare
  • Citizents United

    Citizents United

    case dealing with regulation of political campaign spending by organizations
  • Debt Ceiling

    Debt Ceiling

    U.S debt went ceiling to even more debt
  • Syrain Civil War

    Syrain Civil War

    ongoing multi sicced war in Syria
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

    They are privately owned, but receive support from the Federal Government, and assume some public responsibilities.
  • Mitt Romney

    Mitt Romney

    Ran for president in the 2012 as a republican
  • Boston Marathon Bombing

    Boston Marathon Bombing

    Terrorist attack by university student Tsarnaev in a marathon
  • Shelby County v. Holder

    Shelby County v. Holder

    constitutionality of two provisions of the voting rights act of 1965
  • Same Sex Marriage

    Same Sex Marriage

    A case made marring same sex legal in most states