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S.S. Quest
This is the Final Common Assessment for S.S.
| Word | definition |
|---|---|
| 1992 Presidental Election | This election was Geroge Bush(Republican) vs. Bill Clinton (democtatic) |
| Berline Wall | Wall built in 1961 between East and West Berlin to stop East Berliners from crossing into the West. |
| Brown v. the Board of Education | (1954) Supreme Court ruling that declared that segregation in public schools is illegal; overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine established in 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. |
| Containment | U.S. foreign policy followed during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism. |
| Contract with America | Ten-point Republican reform plan created in the mid-1990s; proposals included a balanced budget amendment and tax reform. |
| Economic impct of the Cold War | The Cold War caused US and Soviet Union to pay lots of money to the military, space exploration and nucular weapons. |
| Economic Imapct of World War 2 | WW2 caused US no damage becuase WW2 was fought in Europe. |
| End of the Cold War | Soviet Union became a democratic nation and freed other nation they had. Also US became a superpower. |
| House Un-American Activites Committee | (HUAC) Congressional committee created in 1938 to investigate U.S. citizens accused of communist activities. |
| Internal Security Act | (1950) Law requiring registration of suspected communist groups and granting the government power to arrest anyone suspected of disloyalty during national emergencies. |
| Iran-Contra Affair | Name given to the 1986 scandal in which the U.S. government secretly sold weapons to Iran, using the profits to fund the contras in Nicaragua. |
| Iron Curtain | This was used by Winston Church Hill to tell that Soviet Union had East Europe, while US had central Europe. |
| Korean War | This war was between the North(Communist) and South( democratic). North attacked South so UN rushed to aid. In the end the two nations were still separtated. |
| Loyalty Review Board | Made by Truman to lcoate federal workers to see if they were communists. |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. program of giving aid to European countries to help them rebuild their economies after World War II. |
| McCarthyism | Method of making vicious accusation without offering proof; named after Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
| Nonviolent resistance | This was used in segreagation alot because Martin Luther King inspired thme to use that idea. |
| North Atlantic Treaty Orgainization | (NATO) Military alliance formed in 1949 by the United States and 11 other countries to help defend each other in case of attack. |
| Operation Desert Storm | (1991) United Nations invasion led by the United States to make Iraq withdraw from Kuwait. |
| Osama Bin Ladian | A wealthy Saudi Arabian exile who was banished, and was the leader of the September 11 bombing. He did the attack because he thouht US had corrupted muslims. |
| Persuain Gulf War | This war was agaisnt Iraq, leader Sadam Hussein, and Un force to battle for the oil. |
| President Bush | Bush had to fight off the Savings and Loan Crisis, increase taxes,suppported the clean air act, supported Americans with Disabilites Act and War on Drugs and was in the Persuain Gulf War |
| President Kennedy | New Frontier, lowered inflation and reduced unempoyment, major tax cut, flexible response, Alliance for progress, peace Corps, Bay of pigs,Cuban Missile crisis, Limted Nucular Test Ban Treaty, |
| President Johnson | War on Proverty, Office of Economic Opportunity, Volunteers in Service to America, Great Society, Medicare, medicaid, Immigration adn Nationality Act, in Vietman War |
| President Ford | conditional pardon to men who went out of the darft, CIA and FBI disloyal, trade deficit, Whip Inflation Now, |
| President Carter | Energy Crisis, Panama Canal Treaties, Iran Hostage Crisis, Camp David Accords, and didn't help countries who were treating humans wrong |
| President Regan | New Right, Economic Recovery Tax Act, supply-side economics, deficit, Gramm-Rudman Hollings Act, Black Monday, Reagan doctrine, Irna-Contra Affair, Strategic Densew Initiative, Intermediate-Range Nucular Forces Treaty |
| Bill Clinton | North American Free Trade Aggrement (NAFTA), Family and Medical leave Act, Brady Bill, terriorism, Contract with America, surplus of money,Operation Restore Hope, operation Desert Fox, Dayton Accords, |
| September 11, 2001 | The twin towers and the pentagon were both smashed by ariplanes. |
| The twenty-sixth amendment | (1971) Constitutional amendment that lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18. |
| Vietnam War in Vietnam and at home | The college students in US protested against the Vietnam War because the war was pointless. In vietnam the South( democracy) were getting their but whoopped. |
| Warsaw Pact | This was a military alliance with Soviet Union and Easter Europe. |
| Watergate Scandal | Scandal in which President Richard Nixon authorized a cover-up of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters; led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. |
| Yalta Conference | (1945) Meeting of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during World War II to plan for the postwar world. |
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