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october 1990

East and West Germany reunited

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1991

collapse of the Soviet Union

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1994

Republican Revolution; NAFTA enforced

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1999

Columbine High School shooting

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ronald reagan

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_______ _______was nominated by the Republican Party in the 1980 election

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george h. w. bush

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________ ___. ___. ______ was selected to run as his vice president

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great communicator

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ronald reagan was also known as “the _______ ___________”

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dr. mildred jefferson

first black American woman to graduate from Harvard-Medical School

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dr. mildred jefferson

first female surgeon at New England hospitals and societies; assisted in the founding of the nation right to life committee

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jerry falwell

organized the Moral Majority

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james dobson

daily radio program called “Focus on the Family”

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reagan

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the iranian hostage crisis ended upon ________’s inauguration

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john w. hinckley

attempted to assassinate President Reagan and 3 of his companions

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reagan

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_______ was the first president since Eisenhower to serve 2 full 4-year terms

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margaret thatcher

conservative Prime Minister of Britain during the Reagan administration

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  • william f. buckley jr.

  • russel kirk

  • thomas sowell

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_______ ___. _________ ___., _______ _____, and ________ _______ were conservative leaders in America during the Reagan administration

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reaganomics

Reagan’s strategy of a balanced budget, stable money supply, and less government regulation of trade and business

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tripled

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the national debt _______ during reagan’s administration

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reagan

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________ cut the federal budget, enacted one of the largest tax cuts in history, and inflation rates dropped during his presidency

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new federalism

Reagan’s policy for state and local governments to assume more responsibility for government programs (decreasing the power of the national government)

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equal rights amendment (ERA)

an amendment proposed by the feminist movement to ban discrimination on the basis of sex

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phyllis schlafly

Constitutional lawyer who led the opposition to the ERA

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sandra day o’connor

first female justice to serve on the high court

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ronald reagan

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______ _______ won the popular vote in the 1984 election in 49 of the 50 states

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william j. bennett

Secretary of Education during Ronald Reagan’s administration

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black monday

alue of American stock dropped due to budget problems (October 19, 1987)

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october 19, 1987

black monday

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reagan

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the ________ era was the longest period of continuous economic growth since WWII

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reagan doctrine

belief that communist aggressors should be stopped before they can attack and enslave a country

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lech walesa

led the Solidarity Movement in Poland

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KAL 007

South Korean airplane shot down by the Soviet Union

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palestine liberation organization (PLO)

sought to liberate Palestine of Israelis

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muammar al-qadaffi

dictator of Libya; sponsored international terrorism

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iran-contra

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the _____-______ affair took place during the Reagan administration

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mikhail gorbachev

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Reagan met with _______ _________ to sign the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces)

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laser weaponry

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Reagan led in the design of _____ _________ through his SDI program

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SDI

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Reagan led in the design of laser weaponry through his ____ program

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  • perestroika

  • glasnost

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the Soviet Union called their steps toward peace _________ (restructuring) and _______ (openness)

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george h. w. bush

elected to the presidency in 1988

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tiananmen square

demonstration of freedom in China

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manuel noriega

dictator of Panama captured by the US

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nelson mandela

communist sympathizer and of South Africa

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october 1990

East and West Germany reunited

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START (strategic arms reduction treaty)

agreed upon by the Soviet Union and America

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boris yeltsin

president of the Russian Republic in 1991

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commonwealth of independent states

a union formed by 12 former Soviet republics

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1991

fall of the Soviet Union

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saddam hussein

dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait for oil

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kuwait

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saddam hussein was the dictator of Iraq who invaded _______ for oil

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operation desert storm

mission to liberate Kuwait

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colin powell

commander of operations in Operation Desert Storm

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norman schwarzkopf

led American troops in combat in the Persian Gulf War

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persian gulf war

shortest war America has ever fought

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2.5

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the persian gulf war lasted ____ months

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clarence thomas

conservative Supreme Court Justice nominated by President Bush

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naturalism

only the natural world exists and anything spiritual can be dismissed as fiction

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intelligent design (ID)

a new movement which asserted that the world came into being by a designer, not random chance

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Edwards v. aguillard

court case that ruled that teaching creationism was unconstitutional

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al gore

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the Democratic Party nominated Bill Clinton and Senator ___ ____ ran as his VP

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ross perot

Independent Party conservative candidate who caused the votes to split in the election of 1992

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whitewater affair

a shady real estate deal involving the Clintons while Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas

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don’t ask, don't tell (DADT)

a compromise to allow homosexuals to serve in the US military

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hillary clinton

developed a national healthcare plan (mandatory health insurance for all Americans)

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ruth bader ginsburg

nominated for the Supreme Court by President Clinton; became the highest-ranking Jew in American government

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rush limbaugh

pioneered “conservative talk radio”

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republican revolution

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the 1994 midterm election was called the “_________ _________” (Republican gained the majority in both houses)

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newt gingrich

Speaker of the House in 1994; led the drive for the “Contract with America”Republican Revolution

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  1. los angeles, CA

  2. waco, TX

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Clinton dealt with race riots in ____ _________, ____ and a major private property controversy in _____, ___

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o. j. simpson

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___. ___. _________ was tried in 1990 for murdering his former wife and her friend

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timothy mcveigh

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________ _________ was charged with the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City

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oklahoma city

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Timothy McVeigh was charged with the bombing of a federal building in __________ _____

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ted kaczynski

known as “the Unabomber”; caused bombings by mail

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unabomber

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ted kaczynski was known as the __________

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osama bin laden

leader of terrorist network called Al Qaeda

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al qaeda

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osama bin laden was the leader of the terrorist organization ___ ________

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north american free trade agreement (NAFTA)

lifted trade restrictions between the US, Canada, and Mexico

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world trade organization

created to coordinate international trade policies (replaced GATT)

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  1. somalia

  2. rwanda

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the US fought to keep the peace in ______ and ignored genocide in ________

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vietnam

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Clinton lifted the trade embargo on _______ and rewarded diplomatic relations with their government

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china

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Clinton continued to grant ______ “Most Favored Nation” trading status

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kim jong il

agreed on a “nuclear freeze” in North Korea

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political asylum

protection from a repressive government

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oslo accords

mutual recognition of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority

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palestinian

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the oslo accords was a mutual recognition of the State of Israel and the ________ Authority

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partnership for peace

Russia’s agreement with NATO allies

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slobodan milosevic

president of Serbia

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clinton

the 2nd president to be impeached

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columbine high school shooting

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the __________ _____ _______ ________ in Littleton, CO was one of the worst shootings in history (1999)

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dot-com bubble

buying and selling overpriced stock on the internet