Culture Wars Flashcards
(20 cards)
Abortion rights
A central issue in the culture, wars, debates over abortion rights have polarized American politics, with Ravi. Wade serving as both illegal and cultural back battleground.
Affirmative action
This policy has been conscientious, with debates over racial preferences in education and employment, spotlighting tensions between equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome.
Osama bin Laden
And Islamic terrorist and the head of Al-Qaeda network of terrorists. Born into a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia, bin Laden went to Afghanistan to train Islamic war known as Modron after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. After the Soviets pulled out in 1989, he returned to Saudi Arabia. During the Persian Gulf war, he developed strong objections to the American presence in Saudi Arabia. He was expelled in 1991.Fleeing first to the Sudan and then back to Afghanistan in 1996, he orchestrated a series of attacks on American targets, including, it is believed, the destruction of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the World Trade Center Center, and Pentagon in 2001.
Pat Buchanan
An influential conservative, commentator and politician, Buchanan was central to the culture of wars, advocating for traditional American values against what he saw as the erosion of cultural norms by progressive ideologies.
George H. W. Bush
An American political leader of the late 20th century; elected president as a republican in 1988 after he fled: “read my lips; no new taxes.” Once in office, however, he reached in agreement with Congress to raise taxes despite this, bushes popularity arose in the wake of American success in the Persian Gulf war, but then declined as the United States slipped into economic recession in 1991. He was defeated for reelection in 1992 by governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas.
George W. Bush.
The son of former president George H. W. Bush, he was elected governor of Texas in 1994. In 2000, he secured the Republican nomination for the president presidency and gnarly defeated Al Gore, a democratic party nominee, in any election marked by charges are in irregular mess in the accounting votes, especially in Florida. Although go one mower, popular votes, bush prevailed in the electoral college after a Supreme Court decision is all the controversy in his favor.
In the wake of of the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration identified Osama bin Laden as the mastermind behind the chair. With support from US allies, bush order of employment of US forces in the Persian Gulf and in nations adjoining Afghan, where bin Laden land training were terrorist with a backing of the band. Air strike sled to out of the tall van in November, through operations continued and Ben Ladner appear to have given cancer. On the domestic front, bush, overall excessive reduction of interest rates to the sluggish US economy.
(Bill Clinton) William Jefferson Clinton
An American political leader of the late 20th century. A Democrat, he handled defeated president, George H. W. Buses bid for reelection in 1992. Clinton, a former road scholar, had served as governor of Arkansas. Although harried by questions about his character during his presidential campaign, Clint improved adept at reconciling the conservative and liberal of the Democratic Party and establishing himself of a candidate of change. He was elected to a second term in 1996. The second term was plugged by charges of sexual misconduct, which led to the Quentin impeachment. Nevertheless, he retained great popularity, partly because of a booming economy.
Clinton impeachment
During his second term, President Clinton was accused of having pre-Jerred himself when he denied having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, and intern with the federal government, and of having attempted to suborn the testimony of a witness. The house of representatives voted to impeach, despite charges that the impeachment process were politically motivated. In 1999, Clinton was tried and acquitted by the Senate.
Collapse of communism
A series of events between 1989 and 1991 that led to the fall of communist regime in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Based with massive popular opposition and the unwillingness of president, Garfield ** to send Soviet troops to their rescue, communist, governments, lost power, person, Poland, where the communists agreed to pre-elections that swept into power candidates endorsed by solidarity in June 1989. Demands for reforms by across East Germany in the fall of 1989 and led to the end of the Berlin wall in the unification of east and west Germany. In November 1989, the communist government of Cavio, Slovakia, resigned, and in December of violent revolution led to the overthrow and execution of Roman‘s communist, boss, nickel Cuz. The Bulgarian Parliament revoked the communist parties Monopoly on power in 1993, and in 1991 popular opposition, forced the resignation of the communist cabinet in Albania.The failure of a communist coup death against recall in the Soviet Union in August 1991 and the part is control of the military and government.
James Dobson
Through focus on the family, Dobson became a prominent voice in advocating for “family values,” significantly impacting discussions on parenting, sexuality, education, and the role of religion in public life.
Jerry Falwell
Founder of the moral majority, Fawell was instrumental in mobilizing logical Christians into political activism, emphasizing the culture war through battles over abortion, gay rights, and education.
Family values
This term became a rallying crime for conservative in the culture of war, repressing opposition to receive world decay through advocacy for traditional marriage, parenthood, and community standard.
Federal marriage amendment
Proposed in the early 2000s, this amendment aimed to constitutionally define marriage, intensify the debate on daylight versus traditional family values, highlighting, deep, cultural devices on their equality.
Mikhail Gorbachev
The last president of the Soviet Union, she came to power in 1985. Although committed communist, he decided to leave the Soviet economy by introducing some elements of capitalist competition, and to encourage free expression by a policy of gas lost. Failed to simulate the economy, while gas spurred popular criticism of communism itself in the surfacing of long depressed nationalism in the republic that compose the Soviet Union 1991 hardline communists, Gorbachev appointee, staged a coupe de against him. Boris Janssen, president of the Russian republic, rallied opposition against, which also faced international criticism and rouse in a warm support in the Soviet military, the coup Quickly Collapsing Court, Gorbachev returns to the presidency, but with such proceeds that he was unable to prevent the solution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism.
Saddam Hussein
Dictator of Iraq crisis power in 1979 with the intention of making Iraq predominant power in the oil ripped purse and gold, Hussein invaded Iran in 1980 and Kuwas in 1993 the latter invasion provoked a military response from the United Nations, by the United States, which drove Iraqi forces from two art in 1991.
Croissants, cruelty and deviousness have become legendary. He has ruthlessly so fast see Muslims and curds within Iraq; in 1987 and 1988 authorized poison gas attack on Kurdish villages. Although widely lowest outside the lab world and fear by most Arab governments, Hussain pertains some of his appeal for the Arab massive because of his resolute defiance of the United States in Western Europe.
Intelligent design verse evolution in PA
In October 2004, the Dover area of York county, Pennsylvania, biology to require that intelligent design presented as an alternative to evolution, plant successfully argued, intelligent creation, and that the school board policy violated the establishment cause of the first amendment the United States constitution. The judges, decision part considerable response from all supporters and critics. Kitzmiller, the case was a pivotal movement where the teaching of intelligent design in public schools was structure, epitomizing accomplished five education, and we were just an American education systems.
Michael Jordan
A basketball player, first as a guard at the university of Northern Carolina, and then in the national basketball Association, mainly with the Chicago Bulls. An extraordinarily skillful and graceful shooter, Jordan is regarded as the best basketball player ever.
Marriage protection amendment
Similar to the federal marriage amendment, this was another legislative push in the 2000 to find symbolizing the ongoing cultural and eagle battles over recognition of same sex unions.
Moral majority
This political organization under follow was central in galvanizing conservative. Christian voters shaping the culture war by promoting traditional values against secularism and the policy’s.
Rwandan genocide
The killing of more than 500,000 ethnic too sis by rival who to malicious in 1994. The conflict between the dominant tooth tests and the majority who toes had gone on for centuries, but the savagery and sadness of the massacre caught the UN off guard. UN peacekeepers did not enter the country until after much of the damage had been done.
