Unit 9 APUSH Flashcards

What do I need to know about Reagan’s presidency?

-Make America Great Again was his slogan

-Appealed to evangelical and fundamentalist conservatives

-Introduced supplied side economics

-National deficit tripled, but inflation decreased

-made cuts to social programs such as free lunches in schools

-During his first term he refused to address AIDS epidemic, though he made some actions the second time around

freedom fighters

Reagan placed them in Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua, and elsewhere in order to effect a rollback of worldwide communist influence.

Iran-Contra affair

in which the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran and used money from the sale to covertly fund the Contras, a group opposed to the government of Nicaragua.

Strategic Defense Initiative

(nicknamed "Star Wars") made to shoot down Soviet missiles before they reached the United States. He also deployed medium-range nuclear missiles in five NATO countries in late 1983 to counter a Soviet missile build-up.\[^1\]

USA Patriot Act (2001)

which sought to protect the nation from future acts of terror by expanding domestic surveillance programs and permitting the use of enhanced interrogation techniques to extract information from detainees. Critics of the law insisted that it subverted valuable individual freedoms, and that the act violated the Geneva Convention by allowing what they considered torture. The Patriot Act prompted an ongoing public debate about

The Great Recession of 2007-2009

• was the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

• The recession resulted from a combination of tax cuts, spending increases, and the devastating effects of a banking crisis in the subprime mortgage market.

• The recession contributed to rising income inequality and prompted a debate about the role of the federal government in regulating private industry.

What did Bush try to do to alleviate the crash of 2008?

. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 included $700 billion to fund the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), which provided loans to troubled banks.

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010)

The law attempted to address some of the key causes of the banking crisis but stopped short of breaking up the largest banks, which had become even bigger due to the wave of mergers and acquisitions that ensued in the wake of the housing market collapse.

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Ac

nown colloquially as “Obamacare." The law mandated health insurance coverage for US citizens and made it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against patients with preexisting conditions. It provided federal subsidies to insure lower-income Americans, and extended coverage to millions. However, there were some negative unintended consequences of Obamacare. Many previously-insured Americans saw their premiums skyrocket, while others lost coverage completely. Still others had to purchase plans that did not cover their prior healthcare providers.

he Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act

made it legal for openly homosexual men and women to serve in the US armed forces,

Other notable foreign policy achievements of the Obama administration

were the renewal of diplomatic relations with Cuba after half a century of estrangement, and the negotiation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.