The document provides definitions for key terms related to events and people in US history from 1965 to 2015. It includes one to two sentence explanations of terms like stagflation, Helsinki Accords, affirmative action, Watergate, AIDS, supply-side economics, NAFTA, Patriot Act, and biotechnology.

1. 1965 - 2015
US History Final
US History
Mr. Hawkins

2. Musical Chairs
• Class is set up for musical chairs
• Students “walk” around chairs while music is
playing, when music stops playing, students
must attempt to sit down in one of the desks.
• The student who does not get a seat may now
challenge any student to a review question.
• The student who answers correctly remains in
the game while the student who does not is
out.

3. • a period of recession and inflation
• stagflation

4. • put European nations on record in favor of
human rights
• Helsinki Accords

5. • to officially forgive
• pardon

6. • Penalties
• sanctions

7. • took power in Iran in 1979
• Ayatollah Khomeini

8. • a plan to help African Americans overcome
past discrimination
• affirmative action

9. • cast himself as a fresh face to win the
Presidency
• Jimmy Carter

10. • succeeded Nixon as President
• Gerald Ford

11. • established procedures for presidential
succession
• Twenty-fifth Amendment

12. • scandal that caused Nixon’s resignation
• Watergate

13. • a dictator seized by the United States for drug
trafficking
• Manuel Noriega

14. • a disease that first appeared in 1981
• AIDS

15. • programs required but not paid for by the
federal government
• unfunded mandates

16. • a resurgent conservative movement that grew
rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s
• New Right

17. • a dictator who invaded another country in
1990
• Saddam Hussein

18. • a leader who brought about many political
and economic reforms in his country
• Mikhail Gorbachev

19. • the first leader elected in free elections in his
country
• Nelson Mandela

20. • an event in which many banks failed due to
fraudulent and risky activities
• Savings and Loan crisis

21. • a theory based on the idea that lower taxes
will encourage people to work more to earn
more money to spend
• supply-side economics

22. • a proposed program that would use land and
space-based lasers to destroy missiles aimed
at the United States
• SDI

23. • a wealthy, independent presidential candidate
in 1992
• H. Ross Perot

24. • a trade agreement among the United States,
Canada, and Mexico
• NAFTA

25. • legislation that broadens government’s
powers to monitor suspected terrorists
• Patriot Act

26. • a law that gave resident status to some illegal
immigrants
• Immigration and Control Act of 1986

27. • an organization that negotiates trade
agreements and settles trade disputes
• WTO

28. • a Republican Congressman who opposed
President Clinton
• Newt Gingrich

29. • a law that eased immigration restrictions
• Immigration Act of 1990

30. • an Islamic fundamentalist government
• Taliban

31. • technological solutions to living organisms’
problems
• biotechnology

32. • the process of integrating different nations’
economies and cultures
• globalization