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What is multiculturalism?
The belief that cultural differences should be celebrated
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What happened at Alcatraz?
- A 2 year sit-in
- broken treaties
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What is social welfare?
aid to different ppl. Food Stamp, Aid to Families with Dependent Children
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What is D.W.B.?
Driving While Black
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Where did downsizing start?
Automobile and steel industries
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What is the "feminization of poverty"?
Poverty of single women
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What is the glass ceiling?
A invisible barrier for women
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What was the Boland Amendment?
U.S. can't send anything to Contras
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What happened in Afghanistan in 1979?
Soviet Union invades
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"supply-side economics"
- Welfare down
- Government down
- Taxes down
- Military up
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What did Reagan do to the striking Air Traffic Controllers?
Fired them
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Grumm-Rudman-Hollings Act?
attempt to balance budget
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What happened in Libya?
??
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Why did Calderon, president of Mexico, meet with Obama?
To talk about drug issues and immigration
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Who is Newt Gingrich?
Was speaker of the house. He had an affair. His wife had cancer. He did the contract with America.
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What was the contract with America?
- balance budget
- term limits
- tougher crime laws
- lower taxes
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Who is Linda Tripp?
She recorded the conversation about Lewinsky.
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What was "the kiss"
The awkwardly long kiss between Al and Tipper for at the DNC?
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Bin Laden wanted a worldwide Islamic Revoulation
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What were the three reasons we went to war in Iraq?
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Ties to 9/11
- Part of Al-Qaeda
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What happened at Abu Ghraib?
It was a prison in Baghdad Americans owned where we kept people we captured in war. There was evidence of soldiers abusing the prisoners.
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What does glasnost mean?
New openness
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What does perestroika mean?
New economic ideas
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What were the 2 main point of the Bush Doctrine?
- Pre-emption
- Go It Alone-unilateralism
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Who was Paula Jones?
She sued Clinton for sexual harassment
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Who was the "Teflon President"?
Reagan
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What happened to Helen Thomas?
She made 1 anti-isreali statement and she was fired.
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What countries are in the Axis of Evil?
Iran, Iraq and North Korea
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What happened in Beirut, Lenanon?
In October of 1983, there was a truck bombing by Iran through the Hezbollah
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What happened on PanAm. Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland?
On December 1988, there was a bomb on an airplane by Ali al-Megrahi from Libya
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What happened in New York at the First World Trade Center in 1993?
A bomb in the Garage by 9 ppl. On of them Adbel Rahman
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Who was responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing?
Timothy McVeigh
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What happened in the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996?
A truck bomb by the hezbollah
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What happened at the US embassies in 1998?
Truck Bombs by Al-Qaeda/ Bin Laden
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What happened to the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000?
A Raft Bomb by Al-Qaeda
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