1970s-Now (test 4) Flashcards
Environmentalism
•environment movement 1970s
-earth day and silent spring(book Rachel Carson)
•EPA(environmentalist protection agency)
Feminism
•women’s right movement
— goal - social equality & end to gender based job postings
•national organization of women(NOW) formed in 1966
Reagan Years
•followed jimmy carter
-modernized military
-considered building defense system. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
-got Saudi Arabia to lower gas prices (produce more of it)
Soviet Union during Reagan Years
•Gorbachev was leader at the time
•tried to reform Soviet Union in response to the arms race
-Perestroika (economic rebuilding)
-Glasnost (political reform)
-too much change for Soviet Union to bare (culture shock, etc.)
-collapsed in 1989
Invasion of Grenada (CW Reagan)
-island nation of Grenada was building close ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union
-Iran-Contra Affair
-Contras = anti-socialist nicaraguan
rebels
-Reagan administration wanted to
support them but Congress would not
fund them
-Lt. Colonel Oliver North sold weapons
to Iran and took the money and
funded the Contras
Reaganomics
-Reaganomics = Reagan’s economic policy
1. Reduce government spending
2. Reduce income tax and capital gains
tax
3. Reduce government regulation
4. Control the money supply to reduce
inflation
-The economy grew, but the debt went up
George H.W. Bush (1990s)
-Bush (republican) became president after Reagan
-Operation Desert Storm was an
invasion of Iraq to protect Saudi
Arabia and liberate Kuwait
-Saddam Hussein was the president of
Iraq
Bill Clinton
*1990s
*democratic
*Bill Clinton beat George HW Bush bc of weakened economy, & tax increase
-Clinton balanced budget
-Impeached bc lied under oath
*house of representatives had been controlled for 49 years by Democrats
*Newt Gingrich of Georgia leads the republican takeover of the house in 1995
-contract with America - was a unified campaign message offered by Newt
George W Bush (2000s)
•republican
•elected in 2000
-opponent = Al Gore
•contested election: Florida’s vote was disputed
•Supreme Court to settle it
September 11, 2001 (9-11)
-2 planes crashed into the World Trade
Center Towers
-1 plane crashed into the Pentagon
-the fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania,
likely headed to White House
-Bush was president
(Bush) response to 9-11
-Patriot Act Passed
- allowed government to search private
communications to stop terrorism
-Department of Homeland Security created
War in Afghanistan (Bush)
2001-2021
-Taliban was protecting Osama Bin Laden & Al-Queda
-U.S. invaded
Iraq War (Bush)
2003-2011
-U.S. thought Saddam Hussein was producing Weapons of Mass Destruction
-We didn’t find any
-Saddam executed in 2006
Recent History - Technology
Computers
-invented in 1946, called ENIAC, filled an
entire room
-1971 micro processors allowed for
computers to be built for small enough
for personal use (PC)
Internet
-developed in 80s
-email became popular in 90s
Social Media
-developed in the early 2000s
Barack Obama
Democratic
-First person of color elected president in 2008
-2008 financial crisis
- also called the subprime crisis
- American recovery and reinvestment
act 1 trillion dollar spending bill
-Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (2010)
- allowed openly gay people in the
military
-Withdrew from Iraq (2011)
- ISIS took Iraq and spread throughout
the Middle East
-Osama Bin Laden killed -2011
-Benghazi Embassy Attacked -Sept. 11,
2012
-same-sex marriage legalized nationwide by the Supreme Court -2015
