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| 5641015191 | Berlin Wall Falls | Under Gorbachev; opened the entire order with the West; Hundreds of thousands of Germans swarmed across the border; marked the end of USSR domination. | 0 | |
| 5641015192 | Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989,"Great Communicator" Republican, conservative economic policies, replaced liberal Democrats in upper house with conservative Democrats or "boll weevils" , at reelection time, Jesse Jackson first black presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro as VP running mate. | 1 | |
| 5641015193 | "New Right" | Conservative political movements in industrialized democracies that have arisen since the 1960's and stress "traditional values," often with a racist undertone. | 2 | |
| 5641018303 | William F. Buckley | Conservative who launched the conservative National Review magazine in 1955 which helped restore conservative ideas in America; founded Young Americans for Freedom in 1960; and started a conservative TV talk show, Firing Line, in 1966. | 3 | |
| 5641009060 | Milton Friedman | He wrote the article titled, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits". | 4 | |
| 5641018304 | Neo-conservatives | Principal concern was to reassert legitimate authority and reaffirm Western democratic, anticommunist values, and commitments. "Win back the culture." They also believed that they shouldn't work to ease tensions with the Soviet Union. That the Vietnam war was positive and we should not have pulled out. | 5 | |
| 5641020822 | The Religious Right | Religious conservatives began to exert their political muscle in a cultural war. Rev. Jerry Falwell was a leading personality in this movement. | 6 | |
| 5641020823 | Pat Robertson | Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is an American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister, who generally supports conservative Christian ideals. | 7 | |
| 5641023832 | Jerry Falwell | Leader of the Religious Right Fundamentalist Christians, a group that supported Reagan; rallying cry was "family values", anti-abortion, favored prayer in schools. | 8 | |
| 5641023833 | Moral Majority | A movement begun in the early 1980's among religious conservatives that supported primarily conservative Republicans opposed to abortion, communism and liberalism. | 9 | |
| 5641034230 | James Baker III | Of no party- was good friends with H.W. Bush and became his secretary of state. | 10 | |
| 5641034231 | Supply Side Economics (Reaganomics) | An economic philosophy that advocates both tax and budget cuts to increase incentives to produce in order to expand the total supply of the nation's goods and services. | 11 | |
| 5641034232 | Economic Recovery Tax Act | A measure signed by Reagan in 1981 which cut personal income taxes by 25 percent, lowered the maximum rate from 70 to 50 percent for 1982, cut the capital gains tax by a third, and offered the wealthy a broad array of other tax concessions. | 12 | |
| 5641036484 | SDI | Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (1983), also known as "Star Wars," called for a land- or space-based shield against a nuclear attack. Although SDI was criticized as unfeasible and in violation of the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Congress approved billions of dollars for development. | 13 | |
| 5641031215 | James Watt | Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt, an electrical measurement, is named after him. | 14 | |
| 5641036485 | Iran-Contra Affair | Americans kidnapped in Beirut by Iranian govt, so deal, scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected, Poindexter and North involved. | 15 | |
| 5641039044 | Oliver North | Member of the National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan; Chief member of funneling arms to Iran and then transferring the money to the Contras in Nicaragua. | 16 | |
| 5641039045 | "Evil Empire" | Ronald Reagan's description of Soviet Union because of his fierce anti-communist views and the USSR's history of violation of human rights and aggression. | 17 | |
| 5641041199 | "Velvet Revolutions" | Was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia. The period of upheaval and transition took place from November 16/17 to December 29, 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia combined students and older dissidents. In response to the collapse of other Warsaw Pact governments and the increasing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 that it would relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state. | 18 | |
| 5641041198 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe. | 19 | |
| 5641049554 | George HW Bush | President during the Gulf War, ability to quickly bring the war to a conclusion while suffering relatively few casualties resulted in the second-highest approval rating of any president, 89%. | 20 | |
| 5641052230 | Rainbow Coalition | A non-profit organization formed as a merger of two non-profit organizations — Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition — founded by Jesse Jackson. The organizations pursue social justice, civil rights and political activism. | 21 | |
| 5641052231 | Americans With Disabilities Act | Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned discrimination against the disabled in employment and mandated easy access to all public and commercial buildings. | 22 | |
| 5641052232 | Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1989 | Allowed states to ban abortions from public hospitals and permitted doctors to test to see if fetuses were viable. | 23 | |
| 5641049555 | Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey 1992 | A 24 hour wait period and parental consent for minors in an abortion is constitutional under the 14th amendment but obtaining spousal consent is an undue burden. | 24 | |
| 5641055816 | Clarence Thomas | This man was an African American jurist, and a strict critic of affirmative action. He was nominated by George H. W. Bush to be on the Supreme Court in 1991, and shortly after was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill. Hearings were reopened, and he became the second African American to hold a seat in the Supreme Court. | 25 | |
| 5641055817 | New World Order | A description of the international system resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union in which the balance of nuclear terror theoretically no longer determined the destinies of states. | 26 | |
| 5641058593 | Iran-Iraqi War | Conflict between Sunni Iraq and Shi'i iran over territory. Saddam Hussein, Iraq's prez was secular and the Ayatollah was conservative, 1980-1988, Iraq uses chemical weapons. | 27 | |
| 5641058594 | UN Resolution 687 | Council set the terms, in a comprehensive resolution, with which Iraq was to comply after losing the Gulf War. imposed economic sanctions against Iraq unless it allowed unfettered inspection of its weapon systems and destruction of all biological and chemical arms and unconditional pledge not to develop nuclear arms. | 28 | |
| 5641061192 | Vietnam Syndrome | Is a term that describes how the domestic controversy over involvement in the war impacted U.S. foreign policy after the end of the war. To many, the Vietnam War represented a moral turning point in American foreign policy. The 'Vietnam Syndrome' lingered until the end of the Cold War. The country became far less willing to commit itself to military intervention abroad. | 29 | |
| 5641063666 | Bill Clinton | 42nd President advocated economic and healthcare reform; second president to be impeached. | 30 | |
| 5641063667 | "New Democrats" | Ideologically centrist faction within the Democratic Party that emerged after the victory of Republican George H. W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election. They are identified with more pragmatic and centrist social/cultural/pluralist positions and neoliberal fiscal values. | 31 | |
| 5641066394 | Al Gore | Served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Ran for President in 2000 and won popular vote but lost Electoral College. | 32 | |
| 5641066395 | H. Ross Perot | Was the third party candidate in the 1992 election; he got 19% for the vote; the most for any independent since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. | 33 | |
| 5641068873 | Hilary Clinton | To the surprise of nearly all political pundits, the long series of winter and spring caucuses and primary elections resulted in the nomination not of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the initial favorite, but Barack Obama, a relatively little-known forty-seven-year-old senator from Illinois when the campaign began. | 34 | |
| 5641068874 | Family and Medical Leave Act | 1993 legislation that allows an employee to take unpaid leave due to illness or to care for a sick family member or to care for a new son or daughter including by birth, adoption or foster care. | 35 | |
| 5641068875 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. | 36 | |
| 5641075006 | Whitewater | An Amie political controversy that began with the real estate dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, [Jim and Susan McDougal] in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture. David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against Clinton, claimed in November 1993 that Bill, while governor of AK, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, Kenneth Starr major player. | 37 | |
| 5641075007 | Newt Gingrich | Representative from Georgia who led the "Contract with America" and eventually became the Speaker of the House; he and Clinton battled many times while he demanded tax cuts and a balancing of the budget. | 38 | |
| 5641075008 | "Contact with America" | 1994 Newt Gingrich designed this to capture control of congress from democrats, specific legislations that the republicans pledged to pass if the voters sent a majority to Washington. Reform plans included real welfare reform, family tax cuts, job creation and limited term for congressmen. | 39 | |
| 5641078487 | Aid to Families with Dependent Children | Federal funds, administered by the states, for children living with persons or relatives who fall below state standards of need; abolished in 1996. | 40 | |
| 5641081374 | Monica Lewinsky | 1990s; had affair with Clinton who denied it under oath, but there was physical evidence; he was impeached for perjury and his resulting political battles kept him from being productive in his final term paving way for the seemingly moral Bush in 2000. | 41 | |
| 5641081375 | "ethnic cleansing" | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. | 42 | |
| 5641081376 | World Trade Center 1993 | On February 26, 1993, terrorists parked a rental van in a garage underneath the World Trade Center's twin towers and lit the fuses on a massive homemade bomb stuffed inside. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the subsequent explosion, which carved out a crater several stories deep and propelled smoke into the upper reaches of the quarter-mile-high skyscrapers. | 43 | |
| 5641083936 | USS Cole | American warship that was docked near Middle Eastern country of Yemen that was crashed into by an al-Qaeda terrorists bought loaded with explosives in 2000. | 44 | |
| 5641009061 | Al Qaeda | A network of Islamic terrorist organizations, led by Osama bin Laden, that carried out the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. | 45 |
