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| 4817179514 | Axis of Evil | A group of nations accused by the Bush administration of sponsoring terrorism and threatening to develop weapons of mass destruction | 0 | |
| 4817185525 | culture wars | Clashes within mainstream society over the values and norms that should be upheld | 1 | |
| 4817187418 | ethnic cleansing | the elimination of an unwanted ethnic group or groups from a society, as by genocide or forced emigration. | 2 | |
| 4817190235 | Faith-based agenda | Public policy that traces its roots in religious ideology. Example: Pro-Choice legislation. | 3 | |
| 4817191686 | free market | An economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies. | 4 | |
| 4817192748 | globalization | A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders. | 5 | |
| 4817197491 | Conservatism | A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity. | 6 | |
| 4817199105 | Liberalism | A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity. | 7 | |
| 4817201494 | Majority-minority nation | when the "minority" population makes up the majority of the nation | 8 | |
| 4817203352 | multiculturalism | The practice of valuing and respecting differences in culture. | 9 | |
| 4817214106 | Multinational Corporation | An organization that manufactures and markets products in many different countries and has multinational stock ownership and multinational management | 10 | |
| 4817217033 | Multipolar world | The new reality of the world in which there were several great powers, not just two (China, Japan, Western Europe, the US, and the USSR) | 11 | |
| 4817218895 | Neo-conservatism | intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to perceived liberalism of the 60's | 12 | |
| 4817227770 | Reagan Democrats | traditional Democratic middle-class voters turning to Ronald Reagan during the 1980s | 13 | |
| 4817229824 | Rockefeller Republicans | "Moderate Republican / liberal Republican" - faction of the GOP who held moderate to liberal views on domestic issues similar to those of Nelson Rockefeller | 14 | |
| 4817230902 | States' rights | the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. | 15 | |
| 4817232715 | supply-side economics | An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues for the government. | 16 | |
| 4817234954 | Reaganomics | Reagan's theory that if you cut taxes, it will spur the growth of public spending and improve the economy. It included tax breaks for the rich, "supply-side economics," and "trickle down" theory. | 17 | |
| 4817237480 | trickle-down economics | economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers | 18 | |
| 4817238253 | Ronald Reagan | 1980 and 1984; Republican; "Reagan Revolution": reduce reliance on government; Reagonomics: supply-side, laissez-faire, send troops to Grenada, escalated the Cold War: "rollback" of communism, Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars); War on Drugs, Iran-Contra affair, second term-ended cold war ("tear down this wall" (Berlin Wall)) | 19 | |
| 4817242015 | George H.W. 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 | |
| 4817243993 | George W. Bush | 43rd president of the US who began a campaign toward energy self-sufficiency and against terrorism in 2001 | 21 | |
| 4817245338 | Bill Clinton | 42nd President advocated economic and healthcare reform; second president to be impeached | 22 | |
| 4817248561 | Barack Obama | 2008; Democrat; first African American president of the US, health care bill; Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster; economy: huge stimulus package to combat the great recession, is removing troops from Iraq, strengthened numbers in Afghanistan; repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell; New Start treaty with Russia | 23 | |
| 4817251194 | Iran hostage crisis | In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The Carter administration tried unsuccessfully to negotiate for the hostages release. On January 20, 1981, the day Carter left office, Iran released the Americans, ending their 444 days in captivity. | 24 | |
| 4817252279 | September 11th | The terrorist attack by Al Qaeda on the World Trade Center. Two planes were hijacked and were flown into the Twin Towers and resulted in the death of over 3,000 people and the massive damage to the city of New York. | 25 | |
| 4817253712 | War on Terror | Initiated by President George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist operatives and their supporters throughout the world. | 26 | |
| 4817254529 | Jihad | A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | 27 | |
| 4817255615 | Election of 1980 | Ronald Reagan won over Jimmy Carter because of the Iranian hostage crisis and America's stagflation. | 28 | |
| 4817256318 | Election of 2000 | Bush v. Gore; Bush won although Gore won popular vote; controversy over the final vote count in Florida; settled by Supreme Court decision in favor of Bush | 29 | |
| 4817257199 | Election of 2008 | Obama won the presidential election and became first black president in history | 30 |
