Ch 22-24: The World in Transition Flashcards
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160593156 | trade deficit | buying more from forgein nations than it sold in foreign markets | 0 | |
160593157 | Ronald Reagan | 1980 Republican won presidency | 1 | |
160593158 | budget deficit | difference between amount of money government earns in revenue and what it spends | 2 | |
160593159 | George H. Bush | Reagan's successor pushed the budget deficit to new heights with military spending | 3 | |
160593160 | Bill Clinton | 1992 Democrat winning presidency moderate deficit reduction and increased spending guaranteed health benefits for all Americans | 4 | |
160593161 | Robert Dole | defeated by Clinton in 1996 | 5 | |
160593162 | Ross Perot | Reform party candidate defeated by Clinton in 1996 | 6 | |
160593163 | Madeleine Albright | new architects of new foreign policy 1st woman to serve as Secretary of State (1997) previous US ambassador to UN strengthening democracy in Europe peace in Middle East effective partnerships with Latin America and Asian countries | 7 | |
160593164 | Yuri Andropov | succeeded Brezhnev in 1982 hard-liner died shortly | 8 | |
160593165 | Konstantin Chernenko | replaced Andropov hard-liner died 1985 | 9 | |
160593166 | glasnost | "openess" Gorbachev's reforms | 10 | |
160593167 | perestroika | "movement toward free enterprise" | 11 | |
160593168 | Boris Yeltsin | most powerful challenger to Gorbachev elected president of Russian Republic | 12 |