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Clep 1990 Clinton
Clep 1990 Clinton & Bush
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During President Clinton's term, the ________ was signed in 1993 to establish a free trade zone between United States, Canada, and Mexico. | North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) |
| Negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began under the _______ administration, and after some labor and environment issues were worked out, it was approved in 1993 during the Clinton administration. | Bush |
| The _____________ was passed during Clinton's admin. & lowered tariffs worldwide, cutting tariffs on manufactured goods by more than 1/3 overall and eliminating tariffs in major markets in a number of sectors in which the US is particularly competitive. | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)1994 It also created the World Trade Organization |
| The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was designed to lower trade barriers around the world and _______ U.S. trade with foreign countries. | increase |
| The Contract with America was a legislative program passed under Clinton's administration by the Republican Congress which called for a ______ _____ amendment and limitations on welfare benefits. | balanced budget |
| This was known as the Contract with America, and was championed by Speaker of the House ________ _____________. | Newt Gingrich |
| The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 put ______ in charge of welfare policy, giving block grants to the states instead of direct federal assistance to individuals. | state governments |
| The ______ of 1996 was passed during Clinton's administration, and in addition to shifting responsibility to the state governments, also imposed work requirements for recipients and ended most forms of public assistance for immigrants (legal or illegal). | Welfare Reform Act |
| President Clinton's affair with Lewinsky ultimately led to his __________. | impeachment |
| Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky was not illegal, but he was impeached on the basis of ______ and obstruction of justice for lying about the affair in testimony. The Senate refused to convict him, and he was not removed from office. | perjury |
| ______ _______is the expulsion of an ethnic population from a geographic area, and occurred in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | Ethnic cleansing |
| This is known as ethnic cleansing, and began in Bosnia shortly after the break up of the Soviet Union with the end of the _________ Federation. | Yugoslav |
| The Dayton Accords involved placing a ______ _______ force in Bosnia to keep ethnic conflict from spreading. | NATO peacekeeping (1995) |
| The Dayton Accords ________ the bloody conflict in Bosnia which defined ethnic cleansing. | ended (1995) |
| The Savings and Loan crisis occured as a result of deregulation during the Reagan administration. Savings and loan associations engaged in ___ investments than they should have and financially failed | riskier |
| Bush's admin. was plagued with economic problems. The ___ crisis was where deregulation in the 1980s had resulted in certain fin. orgs engaging in high-risk investments and when those investments failed, billions worth of depositors' money were lost. | Savings and Loan |
| Under Bush, the Resolution Trust Corporation was created in 1989 to buy these defaulted banks and sell them. It is estimated that this ___will cost more than $500 billion over 30 years. | bailout |
| President Bush made a famous promise that he would not raise taxes, but in the face of a rising federal budget deficit, he agreed to a significant ___ in 1990. | tax increase |
| Pres.Bush stated __ In 1990, he ended up agreeing to a significant tax increase, but at the same time, he made spending cuts in defense and on social programs which would reduce the deficit by $400 billion within five years. | "Read my lips: No new taxes." |
| President Bush gained a lot of popularity due to his handling of ___policy, but many consider his handling of the economic situation in the United States to have lead to his rapid loss of popularity. | foreign |
| Bush's foreign policy, especially his handling of the ___ in Operation Desert Storm, contributed to his popularity. However, the recession which began in 1990 and resulted in 7 percent unemployment cost him much of his popularity. | Gulf War |
| In 1989, President Bush ordered the U.S. invasion of ___ to depose dictator Manuel Noriega. | Panama |
| Noriega was threatening the security of the___ and the Americans living in Panama, and he was brought to the United States for trial as a drug trafficker. | canal |
| When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United States began Operation ___--a buildup of military forces in the Persian Gulf. | Desert Shield |
| Operation Desert Shield involved the buildup of troops and equipment in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf War then began a few months later with Operation )__. | Desert Storm |
| Operation Desert Storm began on January 17, ___, with a massive bombing of Iraqi forces which lasted over a month. Next, the ground troops moved in and defeated the Iraqi forces within a few days with light losses. | 1991 |
| Operation Desert Storm ended after Iraqi forces were defeated and sent back into Iraq; however, many people believed that it should not have stopped until Iraqi leader ___ was removed from power. | Saddam Hussein |
| Many believe that Iraq should have been invaded, and Saddam Hussein removed from power. He ended up causing ___ for the U.S. repeatedly throughout the 1990s. | trouble |
| The major issue that dogged President George H.W. Bush throughout his administration was a. the nation's problems with illicit drugs. b. the quality of the nation's schools. c. the Iranian hostage crisis. d. the economy. | d. the economy. |
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