4237999189 | Asian Americans | Reparations made for WW2 internment | 0 | |
4237999190 | Ronald Reagan | Served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Tax cuts and deregulation. Reagonomics. | 1 | |
4237999191 | September 11 | The date on which two hijacked airliners were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City. | 2 | |
4237999192 | 2001 Attacks | Nineteen members of the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda perpetrated a devastating, deadly assault on the United States, crashing airplanes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. | 3 | |
4237999193 | Internet | The global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information developed in the 1960s. | 4 | |
4237999194 | Wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) | Afghanistan: international conflict in Afghanistan beginning in 2001 that was triggered by the September 11 attacks and consisted of three phases. Iraq: A protracted military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. | 5 | |
4237999195 | War on Terror | The ongoing campaign by the United States and some of its allies to counter international terrorism. | 6 | |
4237999196 | World Trade Center | Complex of buildings in New York featuring twin skyscrapers that were destroyed when terrorist-hijacked planes were crashed into them as part of the September 11 attacks. | 7 | |
4237999197 | Deficits (budget) | Ronald Reagan announced a recipe to fix the nation's economic mess that resulted in dramatic budget deficits during the 1980s. | 8 | |
4237999198 | Federal Reserve Banks | Created to provide the nation with a safe, flexible and stable monetary and financial system. | 9 | |
4237999199 | Planned Parenthood v Casey | A case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the constitutionality of several Pennsylvania state statutory provisions regarding abortion were challenged. | 10 | |
4237999200 | Xenophobia | Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. | 11 | |
4237999201 | Social Justice | Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. | 12 | |
4237999202 | Limited Welfare State | A system in which the government undertakes the chief responsibility for providing for the social and economic security of its population, usually through unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, and other social-security measures | 13 | |
4237999203 | Don't Tell | A United States policy not to tell that you are gay while serving in the military. | 14 | |
4237999204 | North American Free Trade Agreement | An agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries. | 15 | |
4237999205 | Mormons | A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. | 16 | |
4237999206 | Mulatto | A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent. | 17 | |
4237999207 | Globalization | The tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen | 18 | |
4237999208 | Social Safety Net | A collection of services provided by the state or other institutions such as friendly societies, including welfare, unemployment benefit, etc. | 19 | |
4237999209 | Tax Cuts (Reagan and Bush) | Called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets. | 20 | |
4237999210 | Intermarriage | As America became more diverse, inter-ethnic and interracial marriage had became more common especially in the 1980s. | 21 | |
4237999211 | Don't Ask | A United States policy not to ask if someone serving in the military is gay. | 22 |
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