Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Name: _____________________________
Period: ____ Date: __________________
Conservatives believe govt. is too ____________ , taxes should be ______ , ________ programs
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Reaganomics or trickle down economics says that cutting _____ will help the economy because
people will have more to spend & save. Cutting govt. spending on programs will save money and cutting
______________ on businesses will help them grow.
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Reagan did not cut govt spending on the _____________. He increased it and it helped to collapse the
USSR and end the ___________________. His administration started the national ______ to balloon.
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Pres. Bush promised, Read my lips, no new ______. But a recession made him break his promise.
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Clinton's last term as president was ruined by lying about a ___________ with an intern
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The 2000 election between Bush, Jr and _______ ended in the Supreme Court ruling Bush had won.
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People around the world began to embrace _________________ but it wasn't all successful.
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Tank man and students gunned down in _______________________ Square did not bring
Dictators in N Korea & Cuba still cling to _________________ (a dying economic system).
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S Africa ends ____________ & elects its first black president ____________________
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The ___________ Accords prevents the new countries that were Yugoslavia from killing each other.
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Nuclear weapons have spread around the world but treaties like _________ are trying to remove them.
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__________ was created and three wars were fought. The __________________ are now refugees
living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The _____uses terror and Israel uses military attacks.
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Pres. Carter holds the Camp ________ Accords peace between Israel and __________.
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For putting the Shah into power and then helping when he was deposed, Iran takes Americans
_________ for 444 days. This event makes Carter look weak. Pres. Reagan secretly sells __________ to Iran
to gain their release.
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When Iraq invades Kuwait in 1990, the US helped to form a coalition of nations and then...
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This military action was called Operation ________ Storm and lasted 6 weeks.
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Today the threat of _________ attacks is more real than ever, especially after ______.
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The govt created a new department called the Dept. of ________________ Security.
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The US economy today has a ________ deficit we buy more than we sell.
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US companies also use ___________________ to save money and take jobs from Americans.
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NAFTA removed ________ between Canada, US & Mexico but some say it also removed a lot of jobs.
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Silent Spring told how mans' use of chemicals and _____________ was destroying the environment.
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To save the environment and reduce our dependency on Middle Eastern oil, we could be using more
______________________ (gas) emitted from factories, cars... are causing a green house effect