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Who was president in 1960?
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John F. Kennedy (Democrat)
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Who was president in 1964?
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Lyndon Johnson (Democrat)
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Who was president in 1968?
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Richard Nixon (Republican)
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Who was president in 1972?
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Richard Nixon (Republican)
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Who was president in 1976?
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Jimmy Carter (Democrat)
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Who was president in 1980?
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Ronald Reagan (Republican)
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Who was president in 1984?
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Ronald Reagan (Republican)
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Who was president in 1988?
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George Bush Sr. (Republican)
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Who was president in 1992?
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Bill Clinton (Democrat)
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Who was president in 1996?
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Bill Clinton (Democrat)
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Who was president in 2000?
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George Bush (Republican)
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Who was president in 2004?
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George Bush (Republican)
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What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
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1961, an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro, shortly after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the U.S.
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Who is Fidel Castro?
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The Cuban president from 1959 to 2008.
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What is Guantanamo Base?
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It is located in Cuba. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the families of military personnel were evacuated from the base. Guantanamo Bay is the only U.S. base in operation in a Communist led country.
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What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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In 1962, missile race with the Soviet Union. Nikita Krushchev launched missiles into Cuba that were nuclear armed and were aimed at the US. (The closest we've ever been to a nuclear war.) We put an embargo around Cuba. Krushchev said that if we didn't invade Cuba, he would take out the missiles.
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What is the Hot-line?
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A phone line in the oval office and the Soviet Union/Russia that keeps the channel of communication open for both countries.
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What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
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The Treaty banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water. It was developed both to slow the arms race (nuclear testing is necessary for continued nuclear weapon advancements), and to stop the excessive release of nuclear fallout into the planet's atmosphere. 1963.
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What is Brown v. Board of Topeka?
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A girl walks to a black school through a white school & a dangerous area. The parents argued it all the way to the Supreme Court. We ended up intregrating schools.
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Who is Nikita Krushchev?
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Took over after Stalin in the Soviet Union
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Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
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JFK's brother. New York US Senator until his assassination in 1968. Worked closely with JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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What did JFK say about the space program?
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We should have someone on them moon within the next decade!
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What are ICBM (missiles)?
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A missile with great range. Mostly used for nuclear weapons.
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Who was Martin Luther King?
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A very active leader in the civil rights movement. very articulate. was assassinated. I have a dream speech.
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Who was Rosa Parks?
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Civil rights activist. Refused to give her seat up on the bus.
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Who was Malcolm X?
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Black muslim minister. assassinated. civil rights.
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Who was Thurgood Marshall?
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civil rights leader. 1st african american supreme court justice.
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What were sit-ins?
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a non-violent way of sitting down and asking for food politely. They were then put in jail.
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What was the March on Washington?
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where MLK gave his I have a dream speech.
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What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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outlawed segregation in schools
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What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
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outlawed discrimatory voting practices agains african americans
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What happened in the Kennedy Assassination in 1963?
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November 22, 1963, JFK was assassinated while riding with his wife in a presidential motorcade by gunshot.
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Who was Lyndon Johnson?
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Took over president in 1963 after JFK was assassinated. Was the VP. Realized poverty & declared the "war on poverty"
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What was the "war on poverty"?
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added welfare, food stamps, etc. and was very expensive but partially effective.
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What happened during the Vietnam War?
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1963-1975 lost 58,000 lives and injured 300,000 people. We had 500,000 troops in Vietnam.
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What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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began with an attack of north vietnamese torpedo boats.
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What is the Tet Offensive?
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The purpose was to strike & end the war. Largest military action in the war.
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What are the "shocks" or 1968?
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MLK assassinated/riots
Riot at the Democrat convention Robert Kennedy assassinated Protest against war/draft Tet Offensive |
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Who was Richard Nixon?
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Very aggressive. Bombed Cambodia & North Vietnam. was a supposed anti-commmunist
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What happened at Kent State?
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Some of the students who were shot were protesting the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30.
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What happened at Jackson State?
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A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police. The police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve.[1] This happened 10 days after National Guardsmen killed four students in similar protests at Kent State University in Ohio, which first captured national attention.
A group of around a hundred African-American students had gathered on Lynch Street (which at the time bisected the campus) on the evening of Thursday the 14th. By around 9:30 p.m. the students had started fires and overturned vehicles, including a large truck. Firefighters dispatched to the scene quickly requested police support. |
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Who was Henry Kissinger?
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played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente.
During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations he cut a flamboyant figure, appearing at social occasions with many celebrities. His foreign policy record made him a nemesis to both the anti-war left and the anti-communist right alike. |
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What happened in Roe v. Wade?
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The decision overturned all state and federal laws outlawing or restricting abortion that were inconsistent with its holdings. Roe v. Wade is one of the most controversial and politically significant cases in U.S. Supreme Court history
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What was the Rust Belt?
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Midwest lost many jobs
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What was stagflation?
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slow economic growth & rising unemployment
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What happened at Watergate?
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Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that began with five men being arrested after breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. The scandal reached to the top levels of American government, and the attempted cover-up of the break-in ultimately led to Nixon's dramatic resignation on August 9, 1974.
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Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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Woodward & Bernstein refers to a pair of investigative journalists noted for disclosing the story of the Watergate break-in while working at The Washington Post, which led to the infamous Watergate scandal and the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
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What was the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
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is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and with safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land. The EPA began operation on December 2, 1970, when it was established by President Richard Nixon.
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Who was Spiro Agnew?
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Vice president under Richard Nixon. Resigned in 1973 after being charged with tax evasion.
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Who was Gerald Ford?
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served as president from 1964-1977 after Richard Nixon resigned. The economy suffered inflation and recession under him. & pardoned president Nixon for the watergate scandal.
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What was Rachel Carson's Silent Spring?
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Silent Spring facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT[2] in 1972 in the United States. a book.
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What is the Treaty of Paris?
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the ending of US involvement in the Vietnam war
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Who is Ralph Nadar?
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wrote a book on how things aren't safe.
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What happened in Iran with the American hostages?
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Jimmy Carter tried to negotiate a peace between Israel and Egypt and all of the US embasy workers were taken hostage
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Who was Jimmy Carter?
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energy crisis
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What were the Camp David Accords?
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The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.[1] The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. The Accords led directly to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
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What happened during the Iranian Revolution?
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Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi "the third greatest revolution in history"
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What happened when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan?
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Carter had US not participate in the Olympics that year.
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Who was Ronald Reagan?
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Supply-side economics
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What were supply-side economics?
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promised an across the board reduction in income tax rates and an even larger reduction in capital gains tax rates.
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What was SDI/Star Wars?
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Reagan went after the Soviet Union calling them an "evil empire". He built up his military, Pope John Paul II got involved & it was referred to as "Star Wars"
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Who was Margaret Thatcher?
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Prime Minister of the UK supported Ronald Reagan's policies of detterance to the Soviets.
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What is the Boland Amendment?
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the name given to three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting US government assistance to the rebel Contras in Nicaragua.
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Who was Sandra Day O'Connor?
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She served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 until her retirement from the bench in 2006. The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, she was a crucial swing vote on the Court for many years because of her case-by-case approach to jurisprudence and her relatively moderate political views.
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Who was Robert Bork?
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a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork formerly served as Solicitor General, acting Attorney General, and judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but the Senate rejected his nomination.
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Who was George Bush Sr.?
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an economic recession, and doubts of whether Bush ended the Gulf War properly, reduced his popularity. No new taxes.
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What was Operation Desert Storm?
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We attacked Iraq and destroyed some of their militaries.
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Who was Dan Quayle?
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an American politician and a former Senator from the state of Indiana. He was the forty-fourth Vice President of the United States under George H. W. Bush (1989–1993).
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Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
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He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991.
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Who was Boris Yeltsin?
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the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
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Who is Vladimir Putin?
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. He became acting President on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and then won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term, which expires on May 7, 2008.
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Who was Saddam Hussein?
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Very active in the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks. We attacked Afghanistan and Iraq & he went into hiding. We killed him.
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Who was Justice Clarence Thomas?
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an American jurist and has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. He is the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court, after Justice Thurgood Marshall. Sexual Harassment
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Who is Bill Clinton?
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Whitewater Land Deal
Suspicioius Activity Hillary's $2,000-$100,000 Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Monica Lewinsky- denied by Clinton Near impeachment |
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What was the Whitewater Controversy?
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an American political controversy that began with the real estate dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair, claimed in November 1993 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.
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What happened with "gays in the military"?
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Clinton said it was "don't ask don't tell" basis
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What was NAFTA?
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North American Free Trade Agreement for Canada, Mexico, & US a part of globalization
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What were the Dayton Accords?
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the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. These accords put an end to the three and a half year long war in Bosnia, one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. Some articles erroneously refer to the agreement as The Treaty of Dayton.
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What is the Contract with America?
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a document released by the United States Republican Party during the 1994 Congressional election campaign.The Contract with America was introduced six weeks before the 1994 Congressional election, the first mid-term election of President Bill Clinton's Administration, and was signed by all but two of the Republican members of the House and all of the Party's non-incumbent Republican Congressional candidates.
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What were the Clinton Scandals?
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Monica Lewinsky + other women
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What happened in the Clinton Impeachment trial?
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impeached by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, and acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999. The charges, perjury and obstruction of justice, arose from the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Paula Jones law suit.
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What happened in the Bush vs. Gore race?
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One of the closest races in American history. Came down to a few hundred votes in Florida.
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Who is George W. Bush?
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Current President, dealt with sept. 11, homeland security, and invaded afghanistan and iraq.
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What is NATO?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the organization established a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
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What were the Rodney King/Los Angeles Riots?
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sparked on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit. Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. Widespread looting, assault, arson, and murder occurred. Many of the crimes were gang-motivated or perpetrated. In all, 53 people died during the riots.
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What is the Kyoto Protocols?
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a protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change.One hundred and thirty-seven (137) developing countries have ratified the protocol, including Brazil, China and India, but have no obligation beyond monitoring and reporting emissions. The United States has not ratified the treaty.
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What is Al Qaeda?
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an international alliance of Sunni Islamic militant organizations founded in 1988.Characteristic terror techniques include use of suicide attacks and simultaneous bombings of different targets.[20] Activities ascribed to it may involve members of the organization, who have taken a pledge of loyalty to bin Laden, or the much more numerous "al-Qaeda-linked" individuals who have undergone training in one of its camps in Afghanistan or Sudan but not taken any pledge.
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What is the USA Patriot Act?
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an Act of Congress that United States President George W. Bush signed into law on October 26, 2001. The backronym stands for " Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001"The act expands the vast authority of US law enforcement agencies for the stated purpose of fighting terrorism in the United States and abroad. Among its provisions, the Act increases the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial and other records; eases restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States.
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