Give Me Liberty Chapter 27

• World Trade Organization

Or the WTO, is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. Prompted strong protests from anti-global trade forces in Seattle, Washington in 1999

• "Globalization"

Regional societies, economies, & cultures become joined together through international trade, transportation, and communication. It benefited American consumers because it offered new and varied products at low prices (from foreign countries).

• Tiananmen Square

The Tiananmen Square incident was a suppression of Chinese democrats by the PLA. It caused much condemning from western nations including the U.S.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms

• Berlin Wall

A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital, into four sectors.

• "Velvet Revolution"

A nonviolent political revolution, especially the relatively smooth change from communism to a Western-style democracy in Czechoslovakia at the end of 1989.

• Boris Yeltsin

Was the first President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999. Traumatic period in Russian history, marked by widespread corruption, economic collapse, and enormous political and social problems. By the time he left office, he was a deeply unpopular figure in Russia,

• Nelson Mandela

South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994, anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist

• "Apartheid"

Laws in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.

• Manuel Antonio Noriega

Leader of the Panamanian Defense Forces, Noriega supplied information to the CIA during the Bush administration, but was indicted in 1988 for drug and other charges and eventually captured and convicted after a military standoff with U.S. troops in Panama.Operation Desert Storm: Encouraged by President George H.W. Bush, the UN condemned Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and gathered an international military force. In February 1991, the U.S. and its allies attacked Iraqi forces in Kuwait. The Iraqi's were driven from Kuwait, but Saddam Hussein remained in power in Iraq.

• Bill Clinton

The first democratic president since Jimmy Carter and a self-proclaimed activist. He had a very domestic agenda. When in office he had a lot of controversial appointments. When a longtime friend, Vince Foster, committed suicide it sparked an escalating inquiry into some banking and real estate ventures involving the president and his wife in the early 1980s. This became known as the Whitewater affair.

• Social liberalism:

a political ideology that believes individual liberty requires a level of social justice. Social liberalism endorses a market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights and liberties, but differs in that it believes the legitimate role of the government includes addressing economic and social. A social liberal in this sense may hold either "liberal" or "conservative" views on fiscal policy.

• Deindustrialization

Process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheap labor, leaving the newl deindustrialized region to switch to a service economy and to work though a period of high unemployment.

• Pat Buchanan

television commentator and former White House aide who challenged Bush in the Republican primary. ultra conservative, tried to set up a culture war, really racist.

• Ross Perot

He rose as a significant third party candidate. A tech-company billionaire who spent his own money campaigning, he ran on one main issue: the U.S. must get the debt under control--he caused the split votes letting Democrats win

• Janet Reno

The first woman to serve as Attorney General

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993.

• Earned Income Tax Credit

A refundable tax credit for low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples, particularly those with children. The amount of EITC benefit depends on a recipient's income and number of children.

• NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.

• HMOs

A health insurance organization to which subscribers pay a predetermined fee in return for a range of medical services from physicians and healthcare workers registered with the organization.

• "Contract with America"

In the 1994 congressional elections, Congressman Newt Gingrich had Republican candidates sign a document in which they pledged their support for such things as a balanced budget amendment, term limits for members of Congress, and a middle-class tax cut.

• Telecommunications Act

deregulated broadcasting and telephone companies and gave billions of dollars worth of digital frequencies to existing boradcasters without charge and the CDA attempted to regulate the Internet like broadcast which was ruled unconstitutional

• AFDC

Aid to Families with Dependent Children was a federal assistance program in effect from 1935 to 1996 created by the Social Security Act and administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income.

• "Triangulation"

Clinton's political strategy. Embracing the most popular Republican policies, like welfare reform, while leaving his opponents with extreme positions unpopular among suburban middle-class voters, such as hostility to abortion rights and environmental protection

• Oslo Accords

Brokered by Norway after months of secret negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization was an agreement in 1993 in which Israeli prime minister Rabin granted Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

• "Ethnic cleansing"

Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

• Timothy McVeigh

n American domestic terrorist convicted and executed for the detonation of an ammonium nitrate and nitromethane fertilizer truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City

• "Shock therapy"

Treatment of chronic mental conditions by electroconvulsive therapy or by inducing physiological shock.

• "Dot Coms"

A company that relies largely or exclusively on Internet commerce. A speculative bubble from 1995-2000 in which the stock market grew super fast in the area of new information technologies on the world wide web, before crashing in 2000.

• NASDAQ

Also a term that can refer to two different things: first, it is the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations exchange, the first electronic exchange where investors can buy and sell stoc

• "Rebellion of Particularisms"

Renewed emphasis on group identity and insistent demands for group recognition and power

• Latinos

A person of Latin American origin or descent, especially a man or boy, a common term.

• Cesar Chavez

best known for his efforts to gain better working conditions for the thousands of workers who labored on farms for low wages and under severe conditions, He co-founded the United Farm Workers union battled California grape growers by holding nonviolent protests.

• Patterson v McLean Credit Union

Supreme Court barred a black employee who suffered racial harassment while working from suing for damages under the Civil Rights Act of 1866

• "Prison-industrial Complex"

A set of bureaucratic, political, and economic interests that encourage increased spending on imprisonment, regardless of actual need; a confluence of special interests that has given prison consruction in the U.S. a seemingly unstoppable momentum; composed of politicians, both liberal and conservative, who have used the fear of crime to gain votes

• "Prison orphans"

A child whose parent went into jail, and was forced to live with relatives or be put into a foster home.

• Rodney King

a taxi driver who became internationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department became a symbol of racial tension in America, after his beating was videotaped and broadcast to the nation

• Americans with Disabilities Act

Or ADA, passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned discrimination against the disabled in employment and mandated easy access to all public and commerical buildings.

• AIDS

Or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, huge deadly outbreak in the '70s started with gay men and was labeled the "gay plague" but soon began to affect drug users, hemophiliacs, and minorities. Expensive to treat, no cure. C Everett Koop caused government to spend 1.3 billion on AIDS assistance.

• "Multiculturalism"

stressed the need to preserve, rather than squash racial minorities, old ways, and ethnic traits. The old idea of "melting pot" gave away to "salad bowl"

• Proposition 187

a 1994 ballot initiative to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit illegal aliens from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California.

• The Bell Curve

book by Hernstein and Murray about racial differences in intelligence and the implications of those differences. The authors argued that differences in IQ are based on genes

• The Christian Coalition

In the 1990's, Pentecostal minister Pat Robertson began a political movement and launched this organization. These and other organizations of the Christian right opposed federal interference in local affairs; denounced abortion, divorce, feminism, and homosexuality; defended unrestricted free enterprise, and supported a strong American posture in the world.

• Defense of Marriage Act

a United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse same sex marriage

• Casey v Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania

Four of the original five conditions on abortions upheld -- Informed consent, 24 hour waiting period, parental consent for a minor, and the imposition of certain reporting info from abortion facilities. Spousal notification was overturned.

• White water

a series of real estate dealings in Arkansas involving Bill Clinton long before he became President; Republicans accused Clinton of associated financial improprieties, but no charges were ever proven. This affair was one of several accusations that eventually led to Clinton being impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate

• Paula Jones

A former Arkansas state employee who sued U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. The case precipitated Clinton's impeachment in the House of Representatives and the subsequent acquittal by the Senate

• Monica Lewinsky

An American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. Kept the dress with a piece of Bill Clinton on it.

• Bush v. Gore

This case was during the 2000 presidential election between Bush and Gore over Florida's 25 electoral votes. The decision made George W. Bush the new president of the United States, and the fiasco made people question the need for the electoral college.

• Ralph Nader

A leftist American politician who promotes the environment, fair consumerism, and social welfare programs. His book Unsafe at Any Speed brought attention to the lack of safety in American automobiles