Download Government 2302 - 2nd 8 Weeks, Exam II Review What is public

Government 2302 - 2nd 8 Weeks, Exam II Review
What is public policy?
When did the U.S. enter WWII?
New Deal – purpose, how did it change government?, changes enacted to deal with abuses in the stock market
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) –purpose, when created?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - purpose, when created?
World War II’s effect on the Great Depression
inflation
Fiscal policy
The national debt - what is it estimated to be?
Deficit spending
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and free trade
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – what is it?, how and when is it measured?, what does it tell us about the economy?
3 ways the GDP affects individuals directly, as discussed in lecture/power point for Ch 18
fiscal year
mandatory/entitlement spending and programs, portion of the budget
Appropriations bills
The budget process
Recession
Depression
economic stability
The Federal Reserve Board
The recession of 2008
The Bush Administration and Obama Administration responses to the 2008 recession
The worldwide Occupy Movement
bureaucratic theory
interest group theory
elite theory
stages of the policy-making process – know the order, definitions, and what occurs at each stage
history of Health care policy in the United States
who implements health care policies?
1973 oil embargo
The decrease of federal involvement in environmental policy
Domestic policy issues – be able to identify the categories
The largest national health insurance program in the United States
Social Security, what it is, when it was created, who it covers
Education policy history
Brown v. Board of Education
vouchers
Ronald Reagan’s domestic policies
Sources of U.S. oil imports
According to the text, why is the future of Social Security in jeopardy?
Why are some provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) so controversial?
President Barack Obama’s approach to NCLB
Costs of health care in the U.S. compared to other nations
The largest percentage of health care expenditures in the United States goes towards…?
Current type of economic system that characterizes the U.S.
mixed free-enterprise system/mixed free-market system
Which president signed legislation that deregulated commercial airlines, railroads, motor carriers, and financial
institutions?
fiscal policy
Sixteenth Amendment
Which countries own the greatest percentage of American debt?
The Federal Reserve System/The Fed/Federal Reserve Board/The Central Bank of the U.S.
earned income tax credit program
the purpose of www.recovery.gov
the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), aka banks bailout
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
laissez-faire
Federal Reserve Act in 1913
The Office of Management and Budget
Congressional Budget Office
U.S. approaches to foreign policy
income security programs
unemployment rate in 2010 (10%)
arguments against economic stimulus payments (deficit spending)
The United States entered World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in what year?
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cold War
Why did the United States and the Soviet Union become enemies during the Cold War?
Who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001?
Congress's role in foreign policy making
denial
disarmament
defense
The Barbary Wars
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Manifest destiny
Roosevelt Corollary
Department of Homeland Security
Primary reasons the United States entered World War I
collective security
isolationism
The United Nations and the Yalta Conference
Marshall Plan
détente
Reagan Doctrine
Department of State and formulation of foreign policy
How Congress exerts control on foreign policy
Reasons for the shift away from laissez faire government during the Progressive Era
Progressive Movement
Trusts and monopolies- specific types that the Progressive Era tried to reform
Strategies to combat terrorism
The Intelligence Community