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U.S. History
EOC Review
The Modern Age
This land-locked country
is located between Iran
and Pakistan and was
ruled for more than two
decades by the Taliban.
Afghanistan
This disease, which
attacks the natural
defense systems of
humans, burst onto the
scene in the 1980s.
AIDS
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.
Al Qaeda
This economic trade
barrier was enacted by
some members of OPEC
following the U.S.'s
support of Israel in the
Yom Kippur War.
Arab Oil Embargo
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In 1982, Dr. Robert Jarvik introduced the
"Jarvik 7," the first ___ ___ to be
successfully implanted into a person's
chest.
Artificial Heart
This term was used by
President George W.
Bush to describe the
governments of Iraq,
Iran, and North Korea.
Axis of Evil
He was the first African
American President
elected in the United
States, winning the
election of 2008.
Barack Obama
He was the Prime
Minister of Israel (19771983) and worked to
bring peace with Egypt in
the Camp David Accords
of 1978.
Begin
He won the first of two
Presidential elections
in 1992, defeating
George H.W. Bush.
Bill Clinton
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.
Bill Gates
This was the 1978 series of
talks between U.S. president
Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin and
Egyptian president Anwar
Sadat.
Camp David Accords
This is the name given to the
1994 pledge by Republicans
running for Congress to
initiate conservative legislation
and gain control of the House
of Representatives for the first
time in 40 years.
Contract With America
Born in 1965, this Texas
businessman founded a
computer and information
technology company that
bears his name, making him
one of the richest men in the
world.
Dell
This Chief Justice from 1953
to 1969 helped determine
many decisions by the
Supreme Court including racial
segregation, civil rights and
separation of church and
state.
Earl Warren
This modern-day country
was one of the most
advanced ancient
civilizations. Human
habitation around the Nile
river valley began at least
10,000 BCE.
Egypt
This saw George W. Bush
defeat Al Gore in a hotly
contested election,
ultimately involving the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Election Of 2000
This Supreme Court case
from 1962 held school-led
prayer in public schools is a
violation of the First
Amendment's
"Establishment Clause."
Engel v. Vitale
In this 1964 Supreme Court case,
the Court held that individuals
have the right to an attorney
when an "investigation is no
longer a general inquiry...but has
begun to focus on a particular
suspect..."
Escobedo v. Illinois
This was the name of the
ship- and the 1989 event
caused by it- that that ran
aground in Prince William
Sound, Alaska, resulting in the
second-largest oil spill in U.S.
history.
Exxon Valdez
This internet-based social media
website launched in 2004 and
quickly became both an avenue
for interaction between people
and for interaction between
people and entertainment,
businesses, and political leaders.
Facebook
He was an evangelical Southern
Baptist minister, founder of
Liberty University (1971), cofounder of The Moral Majority
(1979), and an unofficial
adviser to Presidents Ronald
Reagan and George W. Bush.
Falwell
He became the President
of the United States
following the resignation
of Richard Nixon.
Ford
This is the piece of land lies
between Israel and Egypt and
is one of the Palestinian
territories whose boundaries
were formed following the
Arab-Israeli War of 1948.
Gaza
This Texan was the director of
the Central Intelligence
Agency (1976-1977), VicePresident of the United States
(1981-1989), and President of
the United States (19891993).
George H. W. Bush
This person has been the
Governor of Texas (19952000) and the President of
the United States (20012009), and is also the son
of a former President.
George W. Bush
This 1963 Supreme Court case
ruled that states are required
by the 6th Amendment to
provide legal counsel for
defendants if they can not
afford their own lawyer.
Gideon v. Wainwright
She was elected Prime
Minister of Israel in 1969
and was Israel's first and
the world's third female
to hold such an office.
Golda Meir
He was Vice-President of
the United States (19932001), loser of the
Presidential Election of
2000, and winner of the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Gore
This decision in this 1965
Supreme Court case
reversed a Connecticut
ban on the sale of
contraceptives.
Griswold v. Connecticut
This is the name given to the
U.S. Military installation on the
southeastern corner of Cuba,
obtained as a result of the
Spanish American War (1898)
and used presently to detain
terrorism suspects.
Guantanamo Bay
This organization was formed
to create an Islamic state in
the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip and it has been identified
as a potential terrorist threat
to the United States and
Israel.
Hamas
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.
Homeland Security
This scientific undertaking
began in the 1990s for the
purpose of mapping out
and understanding the
genetic makeup of humans.
Human Genome Project
This is the formal accusation
against a Federal (or state)
official for wrong-doing while
in office. It is the first step in
the process of removing the
official from office.
Impeachment
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.
Internet
The Ayatollah Khomeini
was a Shia Muslim cleric
who was responsible for
leading a revolution in
this country in 1979.
Iran
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
advisors 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 illegally
purchase arms for a group of revolutionary
fighters in Nicaragua.
Iran-Contra Affair
This country was the site
of war with its neighbor
in the 1980s and wars
with the U.S.- and its
allies- in the early 1990s
and early 2000s.
Iraq
This country was formed in
1948 from the land once
known as Palestine and has
served as a homeland for
the Jewish people.
Israel
He was both the head of Richard
Nixon's re-election campaign and
the Attorney General of the
United States (1969-1972),
though he was eventually
imprisoned for his role in the
Watergate break-in and coverup.
John Mitchell
This is the judicial
philosophy of using the
interpretive power of the
courts to correct legal
injustices.
Judicial Activism
This is the judicial
philosophy of upholding
all previously established
laws unless there is a
clear violation of the
Constitution.
Judicial Restraint
This is the name of legislation
enacted by the Israel in 1950
that granted any Jewish
person immediate Israeli
citizenship upon settlement in
the newly-created country.
Law of Return
He was the man put in
charge by Richard Nixon in
the Watergate burglaries,
eventually spending over
four years in Federal prison
for his role.
Liddy
This was a neighborhood close to
Niagara Falls, New York, that was
the site of a toxic waste disaster
in the mid-1970s when it was
discovered that thousands of
tons of waste had been buried
below the residential areas.
Love Canal
This is the modern-day
name given to the region
east of the Mediterranean
Sea, north and east of the
Red Sea, and North of the
Arabian Peninsula.
Middle East
This is the court case that
upheld that the Fifth
Amendment privilege against
self-incrimination requires law
officials to advise a suspect of
his rights to remain silent and
to obtain a lawyer.
Miranda v. Arizona
She was at the heart of
President Clinton's
impeachment
proceedings as a former
intern at the White
House.
Monica Lewinsky
This is the name of the
conservative religious
special interest group that
was founded by Reverend
Jerry Falwell in 1979.
Moral Majority
This was the name of the
government building in
Oklahoma City that was
targeted by terrorist
Timothy McVeigh in 1995.
Murrah Federal Building
This is an agreement
signed in 1993 to reduce
tariffs between the
United States, Canada,
and Mexico
NAFTA
He was the second
president of Egypt (19561970), nationalized the
Suez Canal that same year,
and held great influence in
the Middle East.
Nasser
This is an international
organization created by
the U.S. and its allies in
1949 to prevent attacks
by the Soviet Union.
NATO
The decision in this Supreme
Court case from 1964 said
that newspapers are not
subject to libel for making
statements they believe to be
true but later turn out to be
false.
New York Times v. Sullivan
He was President from
1969-1974 and resigned
from office due to the
Watergate scandal.
Nixon
This is a criminal offense in
which an elected or
governmental official
attempts to use his/her
position to illegally affect a
legal matter.
Obstruction Of Justice
This act of domestic terrorism
occurred in 1995, a bombing
which targeted the Murrah
Federal Building and killed
nearly 170 people, including
19 children.
Oklahoma City Bombing
This is an international
cartel developed in 1965
to stabilize international
oil prices, oversee
petroleum imports and
investments.
OPEC
This Saudi Arabian man
was the organizer of the
September 11th attacks
and was the head of the AlQaeda terrorist group.
Osama Bin Laden
This is the name of a region
in the Middle East whose
people have been without a
homeland since the
formation of Israel after
World War II.
Palestine
This is the act of a political
executive officially forgiving a
person of any crime that
person may have committed,
and it is what Richard Nixon
received from Gerald Ford.
Pardon
This is legislation passed in
the aftermath of 9/11 that
expanded law enforcement
agencies authority for the
purpose of fighting
terrorism.
PATRIOT Act
When this was published by the
New York Times in 1971, it not
only chronicled the history of U.S.
involvement in Vietnam, but it
showed a systematic pattern of
deception perpetrated by the U.S.
Government in its involvement in
Vietnam.
Pentagon Papers
This body of water is found
between Saudi Arabia and
Iran and was a focus of both
the Iran-Iraq War and the war
following the invasion of
Kuwait by Iraq in 1990.
Persian Gulf
This was a conflict in
1990-1991 between Iraq
and the US-led coalition
forces to liberate Kuwait
after the Iraqi invasion.
Persian Gulf War
This is a multi-party
confederation founded in 1964
representing the Arab peoples
of the Middle East. They have
been in constant conflict with
Israel over disputed lands.
PLO
This 1964 Supreme Court
decision held that State
legislative districts had to
have roughly the same
number of people in
them.
Reynolds v. Sims
This was the Supreme Court
case that declared that most
state and federal laws
restricting abortion were
unconstitutional and violated
women's rights according to
the 14th amendment.
Roe v. Wade
He was the President of
Egypt when the Camp
David Accords were
reached, but was
assassinated three years
later in 1981.
Sadat
He was President of Iraq
from 1979 to 2003. He was
in power during the Persian
Gulf War and repressed
independence movements
of groups within Iraq.
Saddam Hussein
This is a computer-based
tool, usually accessed on
the internet, which is
used to find webpages
containing specified
words or phrases.
Search Engine
This was the series of
organized terrorist attacks on
the United States by Al Qaeda
by suicide commercial plane
crashes in New York City,
Arlington, Va and
Pennsylvania.
September 11th
This is the broad name or
term given to a cellular
phone that also has
capacities and functions
usually found in a
personal computer.
Smart Phone
The research into these
biological cells proved to be
both a great scientific
opportunity and a political and
ethical controversy in 1990s
and 2000s American society.
Stem Cells
In the late 1970s his
company, Apple,
developed and
released the first
"personal" computer.
Steve Jobs
This group was driven from
power in Afghanistan by
US-led forces shortly after
the terrorist attacks in the
United States in September
of 2001.
Taliban
He was the second African
American to serve on the U.S.
Supreme Court after being
nominated by President George
H.W. Bush in 1991 and surviving
a contentious confirmation
hearing in the U.S. Senate.
Thomas
This country is located
between the Black Sea
and the Mediterranean
Sea, and was once the
heart of the Ottoman
Empire.
Turkey
This is an international
organization created
following World War II
to provide a way to
negotiate disputes.
United Nations
Al Qaeda orchestrated a
suicide bombing on this
U.S. Navy destroyer on
October 12, 2000, killing 17
servicemen and injuring 39
others.
USS Code
This term refers to the strategy
of the United States during the
second-half of the Vietnam War
in which combat operations
were to be turned over entirely
to an American-trained Army of
South Vietnam.
Vietnamization
This is the name given to
scandal that eventually
resulted in the
resignation of President
Richard Nixon in 1974.
Watergate
This is a "location" on the
internet, containing
information, or links to
other such locations on
the web.
Website
He was the Washington Post
investigative journalist who,
along with Carl Bernstein,
cracked the Watergate
scandal that brought down
President Richard Nixon.
Woodward