Terms Flashcards
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Keynesian Policy
economic policy that says the government can spur economic growth by spending money, which it creates by borrowing; often causes high inflation
GDP
Gross Domestic Product (total amount of goods/services produced by a country in a single year); often used to measure economic growth
DLC
Democratic Leadership Council - Al From’s committee that moved the Democratic Party to a more moderate policies during the Reagan Revolution to win back the presidency
148
number of Americans who were killed in the Persian Gulf War
Solidarity
Democratic unionist movement in Poland that helped overthrow communism
Sovietologists
Government officials who studied the USSR and its policies
KGB
the intelligence agency of the USSR
“peace dividend”
after the fall of communism, the money that used to go to military started to go to other types of spending like social programs
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization - formed to protect Europe from communist expansion by the USSR
Desert Shield
UN peace keeping force to keep Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia (they did invade Kuwait, but their next target was Saudi Arabia)
Desert Storm
UN coalition that fought and defeated Saddam Hussein and forced them out of Kuwait (the battle itself)
”80,000 body bags”
Senator Ted Kennedy said this many American GI’s would die thinking we would fight the war like Vietnam (we didn’t use ground forces, like Vietnam, until the end. we used air strikes which kept US deaths down)
”Tank Plinking”
Iraqi tanks that were picked off by our precision guided missiles
Megalomaniac
a delusional person who lives in a fantasy world; Saddam Hussein was said to be such a person
Pacifist
a person who does not believe in war; there weren’t many
”foot soldier” army
What Schwarzkopf said the Iraqi army would be reduced to once the Americans took out all of their equipment
