Chapter 20 - 22 Test Review
glasnost
"openness", allowing more freedom of religion and speech in the Soviet Union
perestroika
"restructuring", allowing some private enterprise and profit making in the Soviet Union
perjury and obstruction of justice
2 reasons for Clinton's impeachment
Florida
2000 Presidential election was determined by this state
Haiti
Clinton sent U.S. troops to serve as peacekeepers here
Soviet Union
December of 1991 this came to an end
Moral Majority
Movement founded by Jerry Falwell that backed conservative candidates and issues
Billy Graham
Protestant minister who built a national following by the late 1970's
U.S. military
Reagan launched the largest peacetime build up of this during his presidency
cut social programs
Reagan proposed this to keep deficit under control
deregulation
Reagan's first act as president, eliminated price controls on oil and gasoline
Sunbelt
Southern and Western regions of the United States
Strategic Defense Initiative
a plan, nicknamed "Star Wars", to develop weapons that could destroy incoming missiles
USA Patriot Act
antiterrorist bill that allows the government to wiretap suspects, seize voicemail, and track internet connections
end of the Cold War
caused recession in the U.S. beginning in 1990
Oliver North
chief figure in the Iran-Contra scandal who admitted covering up illegal actions
taxes were too high
conservative idea that government had become too big meant that
government
conservatives tend to be fundamentally distrustful of this
Department of Homeland Security
created to protect Americans from further attacks by terrorists
Reaganomics
critics name for Reagan's plan to raise interest rates and massive tax cuts
Jesse Jackson
first African American to make a serious run for a presidential nomination
Sandra Day O'Connor
first woman on the Supreme Court, appointed by President Reagan
Brady Bill
gun-control law
Supply-side Economics
idea that high taxes weaken the economy by taking money away from investors
Grenada
island nation invaded by the United States in 1983
evangelical Protestants
largest religious group within the social conservative movement that formed by the late 1970's
social behavior
liberals generally suspicious of attempts to use the government to regulate this
Contras in Nicarauga
money from the secret sale of weapons in Iran was given to this group
entitlement programs
not easy to cut funding for these because many relied on them
Reagan Doctrine
policy of supporting guerilla groups fighting Communist or pro-Soviet governments
violated equal protection clause
ruling of U.S. Supreme Court over the hand recounting of ballots in Gore v. Bush
Saddam Hussein
sent his army to invade oil-rich Kuwait in August 1990
