America, Land I Love Chapter 23 Review

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Ronald Reagan
the oldest man to be elected President of the United States; the Great Communicator; the first President since Dwight Eisenhower to serve two 4-year terms
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Margaret Thatcher
new conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Thomas Sowell
argued that careless welfare programs hurt ethnic minorities
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Reaganomics
concepts that stressed that budgets should be balanced, the money supply should be stable--many wanted it to be backed by gold--and trade and business should be free from government regulation
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budget deficit
spending more money than received in taxes
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New Federalism
the policy initiated by President Reagan that stated that the individual states should assume more responsibility for government programs
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feminists
claimed that the new law [Equal Rights Amendment] would ban discrimination on the basis of sex and called for unrestricted abortion and a role for women in military combat units
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William Bennett
conservative educator and philosopher, the Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, who made strong arguments for the return of morality and discipline to the classroom
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IBM
dominated the computer industry
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1981
NASA launched the first space shuttle
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Columbia
the first space shuttle
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Reagan Doctrine
belief of stopping Communism before it could attack and enslave a country
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Solidarity
Polish nationalists who decided to stand up to the Soviets
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martial law
military rule
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Grenada
Fidel Castro planned to take over this island nation in the West Indies and use it as a military base to invade the mainland of South America
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Colonel Muamar Al Qaddafi
dictator of Libya who sponsored international terrorism
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Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
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Mikhail Gorbachev
new Soviet leader who met with President Reagan in Geneva, Switzerland in 1985
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
a mutual limitation of nuclear arms signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan; under this treaty, they agreed to remove their medium-range missiles from Europe
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Evil Empire
President Reagan's nickname for the Soviet Union
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1987
President Reagan visited the city of West Berlin
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Strategic Defense Initiative
a program with a system of space-age weaponry designed to destroy enemy missile warheads in flight
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Perestroika
means "restructuring"
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Glasnost
means "openness"
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Sandra Day O'Connor
the first woman justice to serve on the high court
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George H. W. Bush
Reagan's Vice President
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Tiananmen Square
site of a great demonstration for freedom in Beijing
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Manuel Noriega
dictator of Panama who terrorized the people of Panama and smuggled illegal drugs into the United States
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Nelson Mandela
Communist leader of South Africa
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apartheid
South Africa's policy of racial segregation
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Boris Yeltsin
President of the Russian republic
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Saddam Hussein
dictator of Iraq
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Kuwait
tiny, oil-rich kingdom that Saddam Hussein invaded
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Operation Desert Storm
plan to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein; the shortest war our nation has ever fought
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General Colin Powell
military leader in command of Operation Desert Storm
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General Norman Schwarzkopf
military leader appointed to lead the troops into combat in Operation Desert Storm
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February 24, 1991
American, British, and French forces invaded Iraq
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2 1/2 months
how long did Operation Desert Storm last
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Clarence Thomas
federal judge appointed to the Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall
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warlords
military dictators
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Savings and Loan scandals
series of incidents that cost the taxpayers $500 billion when careless speculation and illegal accounting procedures led to a number of bank failures
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Hillary Clinton
intended to share the responsibilities of the Presidency with her husband
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Whitewater Affair
political scandal during Bill Clinton's Presidency
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1994 Congressional elections
the first time in 40 years the Republican party had control of Congress
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national health care
socialized medicine
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Tax Freedom Day
the day in the year when one's earnings stop going for taxes
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Internet
one of the most important developments in the 1990s
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Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist who developed the first Web page in 1990
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GPS
a series of satellites launched by the Department of Defense in 1978
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Human Genome Project
a massive effort to identify all of the approximately 30,000 genes in human DNA
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NAFTA
called for the elimination of tariffs and other trade restrictions between the countries of America, Canada, and Mexico
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North Korea
Communist country building atomic weapons in 1994
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Kim Jong-II
son of the Communist dictator of North Korea who agreed to "freeze" North Korea's nuclear program in exchange for technology and diplomatic and economic relations with the United States
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World Trade Center
buildings structure bombed by terrorists in New York City
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Osama bin Laden
leader of al Qaeda
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Hispanics
the fastest growing and largest minority ethnic group in the United States
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Daniel Ken Inouye
the first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. Congress
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Patsy Takemoto Mink
the first Japanese American woman to serve in Congress
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melting pot
the idea that many different cultures have come together in America with the understanding that all must work together regardless of ethnic heritage or skin color.
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multiculturalism
the desire to return minority peoples to their tribal roots and religions.
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