Period 9 Vocab -WInsabell Cheung

Reasoning: Contextualization 

It was signed in 1992 by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This agreement establishes a free-trade zone in North America. The goal of it was to eliminate the tariff and non-tariff barriers of trade and investments in order to further establish a diplomatic relationship between the three countries. 

• Nuclear Freeze Movement

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• World Trade Organization (WTO)

• U.S immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Reasoning: Causation

Due to air pollution and greenhouse gas emission, this protocol was established to operate the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by committing industrialized countries to limit the greenhouse gas emission.  

• Kyoto Protocol

• Clean Air Act of 1963

• Greenhouse gases

• United Nation

Reasoning: Contextualization

Nuclear weapons has always been a danger and tension between the US and the Soviets (with the Cuban Missile Crisis/ Bay of Pigs)

This was a mass movement (and a campaign) to secure the agreement to halt the testing, producing, and deploying of nuclear weapons between the US and the Soviets in the 1980s. 

• Three Miles Island Nuclear General Station

• Strategic Arms Limitation Talk (SALT I)

• Nuclear Freeze Movement

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

  (SALT II)

Reasoning: Causation

This was a protest in Beijing China that demanded for greater political freedom as the Communist Party in China split into two when Leader Deng Xiaopeng allowed selective private companies and foreign investments. This divided China into citizens wanting more rapid changes with freedom and hardliners wanting to maintain the strict state control. This led to the student-led protest. 

• Taliban

• Tiananmen Square

• World Trade Organization

• Black Panther Party

Reasoning: Causation

It was established in 2003. Because of the September 11th (9/11) incident, ICE had the role to be the civil and criminal authorities, to protect national security and ensure public safety.

• U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

  FBI

• Strategic Defense Inititative (SDI)

• Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Reasoning: Contextualization

This was a scandal with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in the 1990s. This was a real estate converse that involved a land development venture that turned into a failed venture. 

• Boland Amendment

• Whitewater

• Watergate

• Greenhouse gases

Reasoning: Causation

Obergefell vs. Hodges was a supreme court case that fight for the right for same sex-marriages in 2015. Jim Obergefell sued because same sex marriages were illegal and legal in some. He claimed that it violated the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

• Obergefell v. Hodges

• Yates v. United States

• Roe vs. Wade

• Georgia v. Worchester

Reasoning: Compare and Contrast

This was also known as supply-side economics. On the contrary Keynesian economics (that believes that prosperity can be achieved with government spending), the idea means that American prosperity will be achieved through tax cuts, cuts in federal supply, and more investments in the private sectors.

• Federal Economics

• Johnsonomics

• Reaganomics

• Keynesian Economics

Reasoning: Cause and Effect

It was established in 1994. The goal of this organization is to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers which promote trade. This was promoted by Clinton’s ideal of a global free-trade market. However, this organization prompted Anti- (this organization) protests in Seattle, Washington as some Americans did not want global free-trade. 

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• World Trade Organization (WTO)

• World Tariff Organization (WTO)

• North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Reasoning: Contextualization & Effect 

This is also known as the Gulf War. The Iraq president refused to withdraw his forces from Kuwait. As a response, the US builds arms and forces in Saudi Arabia and in Feb. 24, the U.S advances swiftly led to the Iraqi surrender. This led to the liberation of Kuwait on February 28th, 1991. 

• Taliaban

• Gulf War

• Operation Iraq Freedom

• Operation Desert Storm