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Recent u.s. history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "silent majority" | phrase popularized by Pres. Nixon referring to Americans who did not protest the Vietnam War or support the counterculture |
| 26th Amendment | 18 year olds received the right to vote |
| Watergate Scandal | Pres. Nixon forced to resign; this increased public distrust in government |
| Watergate Scandal | people working for Nixon were caught breaking into Democratic headquarters; Nixon tried to cover up his involvement |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | when American ally the Shah of Iran was overthrown; Muslim fundamentalists stormed the U.S. embassy and took American hostages |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | President Carter vs Khomeini (Iranian religious dictator) |
| NOW | National Organization of Women 60's and 70's |
| NOW | feminist organization that demanded equality of the sexes; feminists who participated in the women's liberation movement of the 60's and 70's |
| Roe v. Wade | the Supreme Court case that legalized ABORTION |
| Love Canal | community that suffered health problems due to contamination from toxic chemicals and waste; many families had to be displaced or moved to another area to live |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader who allowed DEMOCRATIC elections; reforms to the economy (perestroika), and a policy of openness (glasnost) that allowed criticism of the government |
| Persian Gulf War | when Iraq conquered oil-rich Kuwait |
| Persian Gulf War | Saddam Hussein = leader of Iraq during Persian Gulf War George H.W. Bush = president of U.S. |
| Persian Gulf War | Pres. George Bush sent an army to Saudi Arabia |
| Persian Gulf War | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf evicted the Iraqi army from Kuwait |
| "Read my lips, no new taxes" | Pres. George H.W. Bush hurt his chances for reelection b breaking this promise. He probably had to issue taxes to pay for Persian Gulf War |
| Newt Gingrich (Speaker of the House) | wrote Contract with America |
| Contract with America | document issued by the Republican Party that promised conservative policies like lower taxes and less government |
| Telecommunications Act of 1996 | Clinton signed a law that promoted competition and less regulation to lower prices and improve quality in telecommunications (including the internet) |
| Telecommunications Act of 1996 | encouraged internet access for rural areas |
| Lewinsky Affair | Clinton was impeached but not removed from office of presidency |
| Lewinsky Affair | Pres Clinton lied UNDER OATH (perjury) about an affair with a White House intern |
| Election of 2000 | George W. Bush defeated Gore after the vote in Florida was contested |
| 9/11 | Muslim terrorists from AL QAEDA crashed passenger planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon |
| Al Qaeda | Muslim terrorists led by Bin Laden |
| Afghanistan | Pres . George W. Bush forces to overthrow the Islamic Taliban government because it had given refuge to Al Qaeda |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom | Pres. George W. Bush invaded Iraq to overthrow HUSSEIN after claiming that he had weapons of mass destruction |
| alternative energy | the solution to our oil dependency could be WIND , SOLAR, and NUCLEAR POWER |
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SarahDishman
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