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Academic Vocabulary Matrix

Term/Vocabulary Word / Textbook/Dictionary Definition / Rewrite (Your Own Words) / Draw a Picture
Bracero / A series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States.
Glastnost / A policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s
SDI/Star Wars / Created by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclearballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD).
Deficit spending / Amount by which a government, private company, or individual's spending exceeds income over a particular period of time, also called simply "deficit," or "budget deficit," the opposite of budget surplus.
Moral majority / Political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelicalChristian-oriented political lobbying. It was founded in 1979 and dissolved in the late 1980s.
Term/Vocabulary Word / Textbook/Dictionary Definition / Rewrite (Your Own Words) / Rewrite (Your Own Words)
NAFTA / Agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
OPEC / 'Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' is an intergovernmental organization of twelve developing countries,whose principal goals is the determination of the best means for safeguarding the organization's interests, individually and collectively. It also pursues ways and means of ensuring the stabilization of prices in international oil markets with a view to eliminating harmful and unnecessary fluctuations / .
Watergate / An Affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The Scandal ultimately led to the resignation of the President of the United States, Richard Nixon
Deregulation / Removal or simplification of government rules and regulations that constrain the operation of market forces.
Reganomics /  Reduce government spending
 Reduce income and capital gains marginal tax rates,
 Reduce government regulation,
Operation Desert Storm / The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops that began 2 August 1990 was met with international condemnation, and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the UN Security Council. A war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations led by the United States, against Iraq.