test # 5 Flashcards
Reagan Revolution
America must be strong and free
Supply-side economics (Reaganomics)
reagans prescription for America’s inflation it lowered it by enchanting productivity and increasing the supply of goods (satisfying demand for goods)
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
Cut the income tax by 25% over 2 1/2 years
Gramm-Rudman Act
Imposed automatic deficit reduction through across the board spending cuts if Congress wouldn’t curb the budget on its own
Challenger Disaster
space shuttle disaster
Reagan Doctrine
Reagan’s foreign-policy in keeping with Americas tough stance towards the Soviets. Pledge to America support two groups battling communist governments in the third world
Contras
Central intelligence agency groups of anti-Sandinista guerrillas
Grenada
Island turn into a fueling station for Cuban troops (supply base)
Mujahideen
Fighted the Soviets and communism
Walter Mondale
Former vice president under Jimmy Carter outlasted all others in a democratic fields with the nomination controlled by liberal groups
Geraldine Ferraro
New York congresswoman running against Mandel
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leader of the Soviet Union and took the reins presenting a new polish style in contrast to what it had always been
Perestroika
Reconstructing of the stagnant communist economy shifting two more free market policies and private ownership
Glasnost
Openness and Soviet society in order to allow greater self expression to motivate the masses to move from passive to more of an economic role
START
Strategic arms reduction talks this cut the size of long range nuclear arsenals in half
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
Eliminated most medium range missiles from Europe
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
A space-based defense shield of satellites missiles and lasers also called Star Wars would be in space
Iran-Contra affair
What happened to the money that was funneled through Swiss banks was used to supply the Nicaraguan contras trying battling the communists Sandinistas
Jack Kemp
Republican nominee claimed the right to Reagan’s a mantle
Michael Dukakis
Democratic nominee who was the governor of Massachusetts
Dan Quayle
George WH bush is Vice President
Americans with Disabilities Act
Prohibited job discrimination based on his abilities and also improved accommodations for them
Gulf War
triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990.
Operation Desert Shield
Deployed Allied forces in Saudi Arabia to forestall further Iraqi aggression
Operation Desert Storm
Missile military assault on Iraqis military targets
Ross Perot
Complicated the 1992 election bugging a third-party
“New Democrat”
hBill Clinton he claimed that he would not follow a pattern of promoting the government and wood and the policies of high taxes and free spending that the Democrats had followed in the past
“Whitewater” scandal
Rumors that surface that Clinton had un ethnically use his influence for private benefit
Family and Medical Leave Act
Required businesses to give employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for newborn children and seriously ill family members
Brady Bill
h required a background check and a five day waiting period of the purchaser of a gun
National Voter Registration Act
Required states to allow voters to register when they applied for a or renewed their license
NAFTA
North Atlantic Treaty free act free trade with Mexico
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Wife to Bill Clinton and pushed for universal healthcare
“talk radio”
Became a more popular for politicians and people were able to call and ask questions
Christian Coalition
Many good ethical people united on moral issues such as abortion and homosexuality
“Contract with America”
Republicans laid out 10 I’ll be the bills that they promised to bring up for a vote if they were elected in the first hundred days in office
Line-item veto
Lowering the president to eliminate spending items in the federal budget
Defense of Marriage Act
Security federal benefits such as health insurance for spouses and traditional marriage only no homosexual unions
Welfare Reform Act of 1996
Rolled back federal guarantees for the poor
“gay rights” movement
The spread of making homosexuality public
Bob Doyle
In the election of 1996 the Republicans nominated Senate majority leader of Kansas
Internet
started becoming more popular and grew to what it is today
Dayton Accords
fashioned Bosnia into a confederation in which the serbs, croats and muslims shared power
Kosovo
scene of ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia
Lewinsky scandal
President Clinton had a affair with someone, lied about it, and tried to cover it up
Al Gore
ran against Bush in 200. very close call, and had much controversy
Richard (Dick) Cheney
gulf war vet. congressmen on Wyoming
Joseph Lieberman
first jew to ever run on a major ticket
September 11th 2001
world trade centers were hit
Correctly list the 19th-44th US Presidents
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- James A Garfield
- chester a arthur
- Grover Cleveland
- Benjamin Harrison
- Grover Cleveland
- William McKinley
- theodore roosevelt
- William Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Harry truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
- BIll Clinton
- George Bush
- Barack Obama
- Hannah Delbury
Identify the 2 simple points of the Reagan Revolution and then using examples describe how Reagan accomplished these while in office.
America must be strong and America must be free. Lowering taxes that hindered growth and opportunity. Also strengthen and restore America’s moral fiber by curbing government into the home, church, and the school
Define the Reagan Doctrine and give at least two examples of this doctrine in action during his time in office
Reagan’s foreign-policy in keeping with America’s test stance towards the Soviets it pledged Americas support in the surgeon group styling communist governments in the third world it’s sparked battles on the homefront as Connor struggle with the White House over the new directions inform policy making
Define perestroika and glasnost. Then discuss their impact on the USSR and how they helped start the movements to end the Cold War.
Perestroika turned out to be a series of half measures that raise Soviet expectations rather than the standard of living
Glasnost The taste of freedom only awake and thirst for more Gorbachev and the red armory responded to the stirrings of independence and nationalism with teargas and bullets
