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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New Frontier | used by John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. |
| Ronald Reagan's Career | Radio announcer, Acting and President of the Screen Actor's Guild. |
| Reagonomics | Promoted during the 1980s, the four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to Reduce Growth of Gov. spending, Reduce Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax, Reduce Gov. regulation, Control the money supply to reduce inflation. |
| Iron Curtain | a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945-1991. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. |
| Bay Of Pigs | an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. |
| National Debt | The total amount of money that a country's government has borrowed, by various means. |
| "Star Wars" | On March 23, 1983, President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. This program was immediately dubbed "Star Wars”. |
| AIDs | AIDs (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system. |
| Election of 1960 | was the 44th American presidential election, held on November 8, 1960, for the term beginning January 20, 1961, and ending January 20, 1965. Kennedy was elected with a lead of 112,827 votes giving him a victory of 303 to 219 in the Electoral College. |
| Watergate Scandal | a political scandal during the 1970s a break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Effects led to the resignation of the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, on August 9, 1974. |
| Nationalism | Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. An extreme form of this marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries. |
| WWII Powers | Ally: United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States of America Axis: Germany, Italy, Imperial Japan (Attacks Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941) |
| deficit spending | Government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation. |
| Surplus | More than what is needed or used; excess. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand. |
| Blitzkrieg | An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
| Brown and Board | a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional in 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. |
| Cash and Carry | A system of trading whereby goods are paid for in full at the time of purchase and taken away by the purchaser. A store operating this system. |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | The NAACP was formed in 1909 in New York City by a group of black and white citizens fighting for social justice. |
| Bill Clinton's Impeachment | Bill Clinton, President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice on December 19, 1998, but acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999. |
| New Rights | a combination of Christian religious leaders, conservative business bigwigs who claimed that environmental and labor regulations were undermining the competitiveness of American firms in the global market, and fringe political groups. |
| Sussex Pledge | a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. Broken in February 1, 1917. |
| Embargo | Impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity). An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. |
| Security Council of the United Nations | the United Nations primary purpose is to maintain international peace and security, the Security Council consisted of five permanent members: China, France, the United Kingdom, the U.S., and the Soviet Union. |
| New federalism | a political philosophy of devolution, or of transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government to the states. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | a major battle of WWII in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia, the battle took place between August 23, 1942 and February 2, 1943. |
| Downsizing | Make (something) smaller. Make (a company or organization) smaller by eliminating staff positions. |
| Operation Desert Storm | the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours (1991) |
| Island Hopping | a term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination. |
| Korean War Countries | S.Korean: Republic of Korea, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States N.Korean: China and The Soviet Union |
| Lend-lease Act | the program under which the U.S. A. supplied the U. K., the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war materiel between 1941-1945 in return for military bases |
| Entitlement | The fact of having a right to something. The amount to which a person has a right |
| Televangelist | An evangelical preacher who appears regularly on television to preach and appeal for funds. |
| Manhattan Project | The code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. The project culminated in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon in New Mexico. |
| Mein Kampf | It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. |
| Yalta Conference | A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 at Yalta, a Crimean port on the Black Sea. The leaders planned the final stages of World War II and agreed on the subsequent territorial division of Europe. |
| Victory Garden | A vegetable garden, esp. a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war |
| Treaty of Versailles | was the peace settlement signed after WWII had ended in 1918, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson attended. Germany was blamed and was charged unfairly. |
| Truman Doctrine | The principle that the US should give support to countries threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by Truman to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen as declaration of the Cold War. |
| The Fourteen Points | a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. |
| United Nations | 1.An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. |
| Dictator | A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force. A person who tells people what to do in an autocratic way or who determines behavior in a particular sphere. |
| Mobilization | act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops". |
| War Powers Act | Resolution of 1973 was a United States Congress joint resolution providing that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the U.S. is already under attack. |
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