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disease that weakens the immune system lowering resistance to illness

AIDS

a conservative Republican nominee for president in1964

Barry Goldwater

protestant minister with a national following

Billy Gram

first woman to run for vice president for a major party

Gerald Dean Furral

A scandal emerged when individuals in President Reagan's administration secretly sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of american hostages being held in the middle east and then sent the profits from these sales to the

Iran-contra scandal

leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 who agreed to resume arms control talks

Mikhail Gorbachev

A movement founded by Jerry Falewell

Moral Majority

a referendum question on the state ballot that greatly reduced property taxes

Prop 13

president reagan encouraged the federal reserve to raise interest rates and asked congress to pass a massive tax cut in which critics called

Reaganomics

Nominated to the Supreme court

Robert Bork

western conservatives protest against federal laws

Sage Brush Rebellion/revolution

environmental group

Sierra Club

nicknamed Star Wars

Strategic defense initiative (SDI)

H. Ross Perot

Texas billonarie businessman

the center where the Chinese students and workers held demonstrations for democracy

Tiananmen square

Russian president

boris yeltsin

tax paid by business and investors when they sell stocks or real estate for a profit

capital gains tax

the tax paid by businesses and investors when they sell stocks or real estate for a profit

capital gains tax

republicans learned that the best way to attract Southern voters was to support this

conservation ideas

group that fought the Sandinistas in Nicaragua

contras

laying off workers and managers to become more efficient

downsizing

this was the largest religious group within the social conservative movement

evangelical

Reagan's first act as president was to sign an executive order eliminating price controls on

gas and oil

openness,a principle of Gorbachev's plan

glasshost

unlike liberals, conservatives fundamentally distrust the power of

governtment

grassroots movement

groups of people organizing at the local level

Beuce Springsteen gave concerts to benefit food banks and this group

homeless

Reagan launched the largest peacetime buildup of this american history

military

inflation was caused by too much money in circulation

monetarist

economic destructing in the U.S.S.R

perestroika

first video game

pong

term used by jesse jackson for a board group of minorities and the poor

rainbow collusion

iraqs dictator

saddam hussein

rebels in Nicaragua who overthrew a pro-American dictator

sandinistas

although liberals favor government intervention in the economy, they are suspicious of any attempt to use the government to regulate this

social behavior

orbiting platforms where continuous observation of the universe could take place

space station

the south and west

sunbelt

weak economy because taxes were too high

supply side economics

founded the conservative magazine National Review

william F. Buckley

young ambitious and hardworking money makers

yuppies


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