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1970's to Present
Mrs. Brown's 1970's to Present
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organization created to regulate international trade and settle trade disputes | GATT, later WTO |
| Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Balkans was stopped | Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo |
| Agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico to phase out tariffs between the countries. Important policy under Clinton | NAFTA |
| When a president is removed from office | Impeachment |
| Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky had an affair and lied about it, leading him to go up for impeachment | Sex Scandal |
| He was the most successful 3rd party candidate ever | Ross Perot |
| President from 1993-2001 | Bill Clinton |
| Bush sent troops here to stop starvation and genocide | Somalia |
| Sent troops into Iraq to get Saddam Hussein to stop trying to take over the middle east | Persian Gulf War |
| 1989 -1990 saw the end of the Cold War that started in 1946. The Berlin Wall is torn down | End of Cold War |
| People with disabilities had to be given jobs and all public places had to have wheelchair access. | ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act |
| African American affected by the recession began to act out | Civil Unrest |
| Where old factories were closed down and people left to look for work | Rust Belt |
| People move to the south looking for work | Sun Belt |
| President from 1989 - 1993 | George H.W. Bush |
| Gorbachev gave Soviet's more freedoms | Glastnost |
| Gorbachev tries to convert Russia to a capitalist economy | Perestroika |
| Appointed leader of Russia, ended Cold War policies | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Main person responsible for the Iran-Contra Affair | Oliver North |
| US secretly sold weapons to Iran to get hostages released and gave the profits to Nicaraguan Contras fighting Communism | Iran-Contra Affair |
| Fighting anyone engaging in Terrorism | War on Terror |
| Strategic Defense Initiative, using lasers to shoot down missiles to prevent a nuclear attack | Star Wars |
| Increase military spending and research to show America's enemies that it would act to stop aggression. | Peace through Strength |
| 1st woman appointed to the Supreme Court | Sandra Day O'Conner |
| Legalized "illegal" aliens who had been living in the US since 1981 (the past 5 years) | Mazzoli-Stimpson Act 1986 |
| Wanted to reduce Stagflation by cutting taxes and decreasing business regulations (aka. Supply-side Economics) | Reaganomics |
| President from 1981-1989, wanted to decrease government and renewed Conservativism | Ronald Reagan |
| Iranians swarmed the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. They took 42 American hostages and held them for over a year. | Iran Hostage Crisis |
| Egypt and Israel met with President Carter and signed a treaty that ended 30 years of war | Camp David Accords |
| Returned control of the Canal to Panama in 2000. US had controlled it for over a hundred years. | Panama Canal Treaty |
| Required banks to make loans available to low income, minority communities | Community Reinvestment Act |
| Nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania that exploded causing harm to people and the environment. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was formed to set rules on use of Nuclear energy | Three-Mile Island |
| US was dependent on Foreign oil. OPEC's prices caused an energy crisis and oil shortage. | Energy Crisis |
| President from 1977-1981, wanted to clean up Washington, cut taxes and end the energy crisis | Jimmy Carter |
| NATO signs with Warsaw Pact - The countries agree to recognize Post WWII borders and promote human rights | Helsinki Accords |
| The government stops trading/buying oil from OPEC countries to bring down oil prices | Oil Embargo |
| All of the major oil producing countries join up and establish policies and set oil prices, causing price of oil and gas to rise. | OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| Economy Crisis: combines inflation with high unemployment | Stagflation |
| Ford pardon's Nixon of any crimes he may or may not have committed. | Nixon Pardon |
| President 1974 - 1977, the un-elected president | Gerald Ford |
| Creator of Microsoft | Bill Gates |
| Founder of Wal-Mart | Sam Walton |
| Creator of a famous make-up company | Estee Lauder |
| Creator of B.E.T. (Black Entertainment Television) | Robert Johnson |
| Founder of a large Hispanic advertising company | Lionel Sosa |
| Businesses are expanding all over the world. The internet makes the world smaller. | Globalization |
| 1st Hispanic Woman Supreme Court Justice | Sonia Sotomayor |
| Passed because the US was in a recession - BAILOUT of big business, led to Obamacare | American Recovery and Investment Act 2009 |
| President from 2009 - 2017, 1st African American President | Barack Obama |
| Important election that led to Barack Obama being elected the 1st African American President | 2008 Election |
| Government can monitor citizen's everyday life (phone calls, emails, etc.), passed after 9/11, many thought it infringed on basic Constitutional Rights. | USA Patriot Act |
| US was attacked by terrorists. Launched a global war on Terrorism and immediately troops were deployed to Afghanistan. US security became more important afterwards | September 11, 2001 |
| Made annual testing for math and English mandatory between 3rd and 8th grade | No Child Left Behind |
| Costliest natural disaster in US history, highest storm surge ever recorded, New Orleans levees didn't hold up and it sets below sea level causing bad flooding | Hurricane Katrina |
| The US had fallen into a bad recession. This act gave money to banks so that they didn't have to shut down | Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008 |
| Elected President in 2000 and served until 2008 | George W. Bush |
| Controversial election showed that a person didn't have to win popular votes, but electoral votes to be President. Came down to Florida | Election of 2000 |
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