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APUSH Period 8
1980-now
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 2009 stimulus bill | 2009, in response to the Great Recession, that provided $787 billion to state and local governments for schools, hospitals, and transportation projects. |
| ADA, 1990 | Americans with Disabilities Act became law in 1990. A civil rights law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in areas of public life, jobs, schools, transportation, and public and private places that are open to the public. |
| Al Gore | Bill Clinton's vice president; Democratic presidential nominee in 2000. |
| Al-Qaeda | A global militant Sunni Islamist terrorist group founded by Osama bin Laden. |
| Arab Spring | A revolutionary wave of protests and demonstrations overtaking dictators in the Middle East (2011). |
| Arthur Laffer | Conservative economist who believed that tax cuts would increase government revenues. |
| Asymmetric warfare | Military action between a superpower using strategies dependent on high-technology weapons and the low technology and guerilla tactics used in small insurgent groups. |
| Axis of Evil | It consisted of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. |
| Balkan Wars (Bosnia, Kosovo) | Serbian dictator Solobodan Milosevic carried out a series of armed conflicts to suppress independence movements in the former Yugoslav provinces. |
| Barack Obama | Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States |
| Beirut Bombings | 1983 terrorist attacks occurred on 10/23/1983 Lebanon, during Lebanese Civil War when 2 truck bombs struck separate buildings housing Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) peacekeepers, specifically against United States & French service members. |
| Black Lives Matter Movement | To eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. |
| Boland Amendment | prohibited the federal government from providing military support "for the purpose of overthrowing the Government of Nicaragua.". |
| Boston Marathon Bombing | April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 p.m. EDT (18:49 UTC), killing 3 people and injuring 264. |
| Brady Bill | Established in 1993, the Brady Bill was a handgun violence prevention act. |
| Brexit | A term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. |
| Bush Doctrine | A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad. |
| Bush v. Gore | Supreme Court case decided in December 2000 that effectively resolved the dispute surrounding the 2000 presidential election. |
| No Child Left Behind | An education policy implemented during George W. Bush's presidency that aimed to improve academic standards and accountability in American schools. |
| Campaign finance reform | Aims to regulate the way money is raised and spent in elections to reduce the influence of wealthy individuals or special interest groups. |
| Citizens United (2010) | ruling represented a turning point on campaign finance, allowing unlimited election spending by corporations and labor unions. |
| Clarence Thomas | African American jurist, and a strict critic of affirmative action. |
| Clinton Impeachment | Impeached by Congress for lying under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. |
| Colin Powell | American military general and leader during the Persian Gulf War. |
| Conflict in Ukraine | The invasion of eastern Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula by Russian backed rebels supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bur. | Cabinet level agency created in 2003 to unify and coordinate public safety and anti terrorism operations within the federal government. |
| Contract with America | The contract described the plan of the Congressional Representatives, seeking to nationalize the Congressional election. |
| Cuba (2015) | Cuban exiles in the United States urged the U.S. government to intervene. José Marti, who fled to New. |
| Cyber attacks | Intentional effort to steal, expose, alter, disable, or destroy data, applications, or other assets through unauthorized access to a network, computer system or digital device. |
| DADT | Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT), name for the former official U.S. policy (1993–2011) regarding the service of homosexuals in the military. |
| DC v. Heller (2008) | U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2008, held (5–4) that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to possess firearms independent service in a state militia and use firearms for traditionally lawful purposes, self-defense within the home. |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security. Agency created in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. |
| Dodd-Frank Act | Updated many federal regulations affecting the financial and banking systems, and created some new agencies such as the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. |
| Donald J. Trump | Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. |
| Dreamers | Illegal immigrants who came to the US when they were under the age of 16. |
| Economic Recovery Act, 1981 | A federal law passed to boost the economy, reduce inflation and increase employment. |
| Elena Kagan | Appointed by President Obama in 2009, first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. Elena Kagan. Newest member of the current Supreme Court. |
| Embassy Bombings | ==August 7, 1998, nearly simultaneous bombs blew up in front of the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
| Enron | A large corporation that "cooked their books" (falsified stated earnings and profits) with the help of accounting companies. |
| Ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. |
| European Union, Euro | 1992, the nations of Western Europe created the European Union and moved towards the creation of a single federal state. |
| Evil Empire | Ronald Reagan's description of the soviet union because of his fierce anti-communist views and the USSR's history of violation of human rights and aggression. |
| Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from lenders and either hold these mortgages in their portfolios or package the loans into mortgage-backed securities. |
| George H W Bush | Foreign policy drove Bush's presidency as he navigated the final years of the Cold War and played a key role in the reunification of Germany. |
| George W Bush | He also initiated the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in 2003 to address the AIDS epidemic. |
| Government Shutdowns | Government shutdowns, in United States politics, refer to a funding gap period that causes a full or partial shutdown of federal government operations and agencies. |
| Graying of America | The general population lives longer and longer. |
| H. Ross Perot | Businessman who ran as an Independent in 1992, harped incessantly on the problem of the federal deficit, and made a boast of the fact that he had never held any public office. |
| Hilary Clinton | Wife of President Bill Clinton, she was also the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. |
| Housing Bubble | The bursting of the housing bubble caused wide panic as prices collapsed and investments lost value. |
| Hurricane Katrina | The costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States, 2005. |
| Immigration Act 1986 | 1965 Immigration Act and outlawed the hiring of undocumented immigrants, but offered legal status to aliens who had lived in the U.S. for five years. |
| INF Agreement | Arms limitation agreement settled by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev after several attempts. |
| Internet | An ongoing process of social, political, and economic change brought about by digital technology, such as computers and the Internet. |
| Iran-Contra Affair | Scandal that erupted after the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in hopes of freeing American hostages in Lebanon. |
| ISIS | Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and is an extremist militant group that rules by Wahhabi/Salafi law. |
| John Kerry | Decorated Vietnam War veteran who lost the 2004 presidential election. Went against Barack Obama. |
| John McCain | (1936-) Republican senator from Arizona who lost the 2008 presidential election to Democrat Barack Obama. A former navy fighter pilot. |
| John Roberts | President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court to take the place of Sandra Day O'Connor. |
| Kyoto Accords | 1997, an agreement of 55 industrial nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5.2% each year (USA did not sign under GW Bush). |
| Lech Walesa | A Polish politician, a former trade union and human rights activist, and also a former electrician. |
| Lehman Brothers | Wall Street investment bank that fell into bankruptcy. |
| Madeleine Albright | Czech-born American politician and diplomat. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader that was installed as chairman of the Soviet Communist Party in March 1985. |
| Milton Freidman | He was a famous American economist. |
| Mitt Romney | Republican nominee for president in 2012, former governor of Massachusetts. 2013 shutdown of the government. |
| Moral Majority | The Moral Majority was an organization made up of conservative Christian political action committees which campaigned on issues its personnel believed were important to maintaining its Christian conception of moral law. |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Signed in 1993. Established by President Clinton. |
| Newt Gingrich | American republican politician that developed the "Contract with America". |
| Northern Ireland accords | U.S played a key diplomatic role in negotiating an end to British rule and the armed conflict in Northern Ireland in 1998. |
| NRA | National Recovery Administration (NRA) 1933. First attempt to achieve economic advance through planning and cooperation among labor, business and government. |
| Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) | 14th Amendment requires all states to license marriages between same-sex couples and to recognize all marriages that were lawfully performed out of state. |
| Oklahoma City Bombing | Truck-bomb explosion that killed 168 people in a federal office building on April 19, 1995. |
| Operation Desert Storm | United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours. |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom | Operation where U.S. troops invaded Iraq and Saddam's forces collapsed almost immediately. |
| Osama bin Laden | (1957-2011) Founder of al Qaeda, Arab terrorist responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other attacks. |
| Outsourcing of jobs | outsourcing of American jobs. But the very speed and efficiency of the new communications tools threatened to wipe out entire occupational categories. |
| PACs | Conservatism was a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, favoring obedience to political authority and organized religion. |
| PACTO Strike | Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization declared strike on August 3, 1981. |
| Panama Invasion, 1989 | The United States sent in Marines to Panama to topple President Manuel Noriega, who was deeply involved in the drug trade. |
| Persian Gulf War, 1991 | 1990 - 1991) Conflict between Iraq and a coalition of countries led by the United States to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait which they had invaded in hopes of controlling their oil supply. |
| PLO | Palestine Liberation Organization. a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab league since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Privatization of social security | Prospective reform that would replace the tax-funded Social Security system with a set of self-directed retirement accounts. |
| Proposition 13 | A successful California state ballot initiative that capped the state's real estate tax at 1 percent of assessed value. |
| Reverse Discrimination | The assertion that affirmative action programs that require preferential treatment for minorities discriminate against those who have no minority status. |
| Ronald Reagan | 40th president, who led a conservative movement against détente with the Soviet Union and the growth of the federal government. |
| Saddam Hussein | Leader of Iraq during the middle of the Cold War. |
| Samuel Alito | Conservative appointed by Bush to the Supreme Court who increased conservative majority in federal appellate courts. |
| Sandinistas | Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | The first woman to be in the Supreme Court. |
| 9/11/2001 | Common shorthand for the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, in which 19 militant Islamist men hijacked and crashed four commercial aircraft. |
| SDI/Star Wars | Called for a land- or space-based shield against a nuclear attack. |
| Solidarity (Poland) | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. |
| Sonia Sotomayor | First Hispanic and third woman justice in the Supreme Court's history, confirmed in August 2009. |
| START I | STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. |
| START II | Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Strategic Offensive Reductions (START II). |
| Sunni vs Shiite | Allah the one true God and that Muhammad was his messenger, one group (became the Shiites) felt Muhammad's successor should be someone in his bloodline, while the other (became the Sunnis) felt a individual who follow the Prophet's customs is acceptable. |
| Supply-Side Economics/Reaganomics/Trickle Down Economics | Cutting taxes on the rich would produce new investment and new businesses, which would then create new jobs or raises for middle- and working-class people. |
| Syrian civil war | Syrian Civil War, armed conflict that began in 2011 with an uprising against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. |
| Taliban | A fundamentalist Muslim movement whose militia took control of much of Afghanistan from early 1995, and in 1996 took Kabul and set up a radical Islamic state. |
| TARP | Troubled asset relief program (TARP) In 2008 President George W Bush signed into law the bank bailout fund called troubled asset relief program (TARP). |
| Tea Party | An American political movement known for its conservative positions and its role in the Republican Party. |
| Televangelists | Many fundamentalists were converted by television preachers who used mass media to preach a return to traditional values. |
| Tiananmen Square, 1989 | Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. |
| USS Cole | American warship that was docked near Middle Eastern country of Yemen that was crashed into by an al-Qaeda terrorists bought loaded with explosives in 2000. World Trade Center. 1993. |
| Vladimir Putin | Vladimir Putin is a former Russian intelligence officer and a politician who has served as president of Russia from 1999 to 2008 and from 2012 to the present. |
| West Bank/Gaza Strip | Growing nuclear weapons in North Korea, India, and Pakistan. West Bank, Gaza Strip. Israel granted home rule to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and parts. |
| Wikileaks | Wikileaks is an independent, non-profit online media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources. |
| William Rehnquist | American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States. |
| William/Bill Clinton | (1946-) Forty-second president of the United States, 1993-2001. |
| WMDs | Weapons of Mass Destruction, Democratic Leadership Council, Oklahoma City Bombing and more. |
| World Bank, G-8 | An international organization of the leading Capitalist industrial nations: the US, GB, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Russia. |
| World Trade Organization | International organization that moderates global trade. |
| Yasser Arafat | Leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. |
| Yugoslavia Civil War | Civil war broke out as the Communist regime fell, Yugoslavia was divided up into Serbia, Bosnia-Hergezovenia, Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia. |
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