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Department of Homeland Security

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Provides security to the citizens of the United States

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Black Monday

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A day in 1987 with a giant single day decline in the economy

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Affirmative Action

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Helping minorities that used to suffer by providing them with extra benefits

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Culture Wars

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Times in the 60s and 70s where there was conflict over people discovering new culture (music, sex, hair, etc)

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Deficit

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When a government spends more money than it can get back

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Energy Crisis

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A time in the 1970s where OPEC didn’t let as much oil into the US so people had problems with things like gas for cars. Sparked a push for energy independence

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Evangelicalism

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A new push in Christianity to spread the word a lot, and a few other things like a more significant conversion to God

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Fundamentalism

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Strict literal belief in scripture

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Neoconservatism

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Political views that believe in things like small government and capitalism and personal responsibility

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Moral Majority

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Conservative Christian group that believed in spreading Christian laws and morals

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Reaganomics

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Believed in the largest economic growth. Domestic budget cutting and certain tax cuts, for example. Reduced size of federal govt

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Ronald Reagan

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Pushed for conomic conservatism. He cut out many welfare and public works programs and tried to avoid conflict with the Strategic Defense Initiative program (a missile space receptor that was never actually built). He had meetings with Gorbachev were the first steps to ending the Cold War

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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First woman in Supreme Court. Conservative. During Reagan’s time

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Three Mile Island

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Partial meltdown of nuclear factory in the US, could have been super bad. Damaged trust for nuclear power and Carter

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Yuppies

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The original flexers of the US with cool watches and cars

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Afghanistan 1979-1988

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Nine year proxy war with the Soviets. The Soviet Union was against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla warfare. The Mujahideen was provided aid from countries, especially the US

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Contras

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Rebel groups with US support that fought the Sandinista in Nicaragua

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Glasnost

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A policy Gorbachev called for to relax tensions and closedness with the West and relax Soviet citizenry

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Grenada

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Heavy fire from Reagan was put upon here to stop a possible Marxist rise up. Attempt to assert US dominance in the Caribbean

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Iran - Contra Affair

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US sold missiles to Iran (to help Lebanese hostages) to get money in return for the anti-communist forces in Nicaragua. Big scandal for Reagan

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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1985-1991 leader of Soviet Union. Improved relations with West but let the collapse of Eastern Europe communism happen

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Mujahideen

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A name for groups in Afghanistan who collectively fought against Soviet occupation

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Perestroika

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A policy Gorbachev agreed with and pursued. Restructured Soviet economic and governmental ways

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Kosovo

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A part of Yugoslavia (still very contested to this day) that had its own government. Then, Milosevic, who was president of Serbia/Yugoslavia attempted to ethnically cleanse the Albanians of the region. Then NATO came in (in 1999) and used military strikes to eventually end the crisis.

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Slobodan Milosevic

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The Serbian nationalist leader who launched a war of ethnic cleansing against the Bosnian Muslims and Croat civilians. Ended up killing around 200,000 people of varying ethnicities in the land of “Greater Serbia”

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9/11

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Al Qaeda killed 3,000 people, mainly the World Trade Center, on 9/11/2001

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Americans with Disabilities Act 1990

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Spaces must have accommodations for disabled people

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Barack Obama

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US President 2008-2016, left a huge legacy on the US. Promoted economic recovery

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