Created in 1993, this is a government-sponsored volunteer organization within the United States that is designed to aid the country's poorer areas in a variety of ways.
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Afghanistan
This land-locked country is located between Iran and Pakistan and was ruled for more than two decades by the Taliban.
Aids
This disease, which attacks the natural defense system of humans, burst into the scenes in the 1980s.
Al-Qaeda
This is a militant extremist group of Sunni Jihadists who have resorted to terrorist activities to reach their aims, including 9/11. They were founded by Osama Bin Laden.
Americorps
Created in 1993, this is a government-sponsored volunteer organization within the United States that is designed to aid the country's poorer areas in a variety of ways.
Apollo 11
This was a series of human space flight missions undertaken by the U.S. devoted to the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him to Earth safely.
Barack Obama
He was the first African American President elected in the United States, winning the election of 2008.
Bill Clinton
He won the first of two Presidential elections in 1992, defeating George H.W. Bush.
Bill Gates
A businessman and philanthropist, he took a little computer program in the 1970s and 1980s and turned it into the cornerstone of the Microsoft Corporation.
Bush vs Gore
This Supreme Court decision form 2000 resolved the dispute between the two candidates in the contested Presidential Election of 2000.
Communism
This is an economic system where the factors of production are privately owned.
Cold War
This was a name given to the relations between the U.S. & the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century which saw the buildup of nuclear arms.
Conservative
This political ideology is associated with the Republican Party in the United States.
Counterculture
This refers to the behavioral, social, and cultural patterns that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly as a reaction war, racial conflicts, and gender upheaval.
Deficit
This is a government spending more money than it is taking in as revenue.
Deregulation
This is the process of reducing or eliminating government regulations on an industry, allowing for more laissez-faire business practices. This has been a major issue in the airline, automobile, and power industries since the 1980s.
Dotcom Bubble
This term refers to the speculation and resulting "bust" that hit part of the Stock Market in the late 1990s and into 2000, exclusively in the area of internet-based companies.
Exxon Valdez
This was the name of the ship- and the 1989 event caused by it- that ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, resulting in the second-largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Ford
He became President of the United States following the resignation of Richard Nixon.
George H.W. Bush
This Texan was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1976-1977), Vice-President of the United States (1981-1989), and President of the United States (1989-1993).
Harlem Renaissance
This was an agreement in Congress that facilitated an increase of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Habitat for Humanity
This international non-governmental, non-profit organization helps people in need to build affordable housing, and has been associated with former President Jimmy Carter's charitable efforts.
Haight-Ashbury
This neighborhood in San Francisco that became the home to the counterculture's "Summer of Love" in 1967.
Homeland Security
This Cabinet-level Federal agency was created in 2002 in the wake of the September 11 attacks and is charged with protecting the country from future terrorist attacks and providing aid after natural disasters.
Internet
This information-sharing network began to evolve in the mid-Twentieth Century as a United States Government project to help the military communicate better, though now it can be used by everyone to read news, play games, and stay in touch with each other.
Iran Conta Affair
This is the name given to the complex series of events in the mid-1980s in which arms were illegally sold by a covert group of military advisers in the United States to a country in the Middle East for cash and their help in getting western hostages released from the Middle East. Also illegal was the use of the money from the illegal arms sales to illegal purchase arms for a group of revolutionary fighters in Nicaragua.
Jimmy Carter
This 39th president of the United States served from 1977 to 1981, was the first President to be elected from the Deep South since 1848, served as both a Georgia Senator and Governor of Georgia, and received the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
Keynesian Economics
This economic theory was named after a famous economist and holds that active government intervention int he fiscal and monetary policy is the best way to ensuring economic stability and economic growth.
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