Pt 6 Flashcards
Mob of student took control of U.S. embassy, held hostages for 440 days
Iran hostage Crisis
Led Islamic fundamentalist revolution in Iran, becomes a theorcracy
Ayatollah Khomeini
Failed attempt to rescue hostages in Iran, showed how much our military had fallen
Desert one
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
26th Amendment
Issued by Nixon, to repair relations between U.S. and communist powers
Detente
Religious group that will become important political force
New right
First woman justice on the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O’Connor
Star Wars Defense System, Key to Reagan’s military buildup, to put satellites equipped with lasers to shoot down missiles
SDI(Strategic Defense Initiative)
Selling arms to Iranian, Iranians tried to get hostages in Lebanon released, money from sale was going to the Contras
Iran- Contra affair
Nuclear arms agreement between USSR and USA negotiated by Gorbachev and Reagan
INF treaty
Removing Iraqi’s from Kuwait
Operation desert storm
Key to Reagan’s economic plan, idea that you cut taxes which leads to people making more money, helps grow the economy
Supply-side economics
Symbolized fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989
Fall of Berlin Wall
Suicide truck drivers drive into Marine barracks killing 241, they were pulled out of Lebanon after that
Bombing in Lebanon
A space shuttle that exploded just two minutes after takeoff, carried first civilian into space Christa McAuliffe
Challenger
Special prosecutor against Clinton in the Watergate Scandal, uncovered the affair with Lewinsky, led to the impeachment of Clinton
Kenneth Star
Free trade agreement between USA, Mexico, and Canada
NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement)
A series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States. Pentagon, World Trade Center, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, caused us to get into Iran and Iraq, Homeland Security
9-11
Peace agreement in 1993 between Israeli’s and Palestinians
Oslo accords
5-4 Supreme Court declared that Florida vote recount violated equal protection clause (some votes would be examined more closely than others); ended Gore’s challenge to 2000 election results. Power of judicial review (effectively decided 2000 election).
Bush v. gore
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
Election of 2000
Ruling party in Afghanistan that allowed Al Qaeda to train in their country
Taliban
African country USA sent troops to aid, took out warlord, Clinton pulled the troops out and they asked why they were even there.
Somalia
Outlines containment, contain communism where it is and don’t let it spread
Sources of Soviet Conduct-George Kennan
Aid to countries fighting communism
Truman Doctrine
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
John Kennedy: Inaugural Address
Selma and voting rights
Lyndon Johnson: Speech to Congress, March 15, 1965
Wage unlimited war in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
American’s were suffering from Crisis in Confidence
Jimmy Carter: Crisis of Confidence Speech
George W. Bush: Address to a Joint Session of Congress
9/11
