American History Chapter 29

October 1990

October 1990

East and West Germany reunited

1991

collapse of the Soviet Union

1994

Republican Revolution; NAFTA enforced

1999

Columbine High School shooting

Dr. Mildred Jefferson

first black American woman to graduate from Harvard-Medical School

Jerry Falwell

organized the Moral Majority

James Dobson

daily radio program called “Focus on the Family”

John W. Hinckley

attempted to assassinate President Reagan and 3 of his companions

Margaret Thatcher

conservative Prime Minister of Britain during the Reagan Administration

Reaganomics

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

New Federalism

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

ERA

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

Phyllis Schlafly

Constitutional lawyer who led the opposition to the ERA

Sandra Day O’Connor

1st female justice to serve on the high court

William J. Bennet

Secretary of Education during the Ronald Reagan administration

Black Monday

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

Reagan Doctrine

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

Reagan

Who was the 1st president since Eisenhower to serve 2 full 4-year terms

Reagan

Who enacted one of the largest tax cuts in history

Reagan era

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

Tiananmen Square

demonstration of freedom in China

Manuel Noriega

dictator of Panama captured by the U.S.

Nelson Mandela

communist sympathizer and of South Africa

October 1990

East and West Germany reunited

START

agreed upon by the Soviet Union and America

Boris Yeltsin

president of the Russian Republic in 1991

Commonwealth of Independent States

A union formed by 12 former Soviet republics

Laser weaponry

What design did Reagan lead in

SDI program

What program did Reagan led his laser weaponry

Lech Walesa

led the solidarity movement in Poland

KAL 007

South Korean airplane shot down by the Soviet Union

PLO

sought to liberate Palestine of Israelis

Muammar al-Gaddafi

dictator of Libya; sponsored international terrorism