US History Chapter 29 test 2

Glasnost

"openness" allowing more freedom of speech and religion in the Soviet Union

Bill Clinton

In 1992 ____________ was elected president, defeating the incumbent in a narrow victory

George HW Bush

___________ was elected president in 1988 after serving two terms as the vice president of Ronald Reagan

AIDS

___________, a disease that weakens the immune system and lowers resistance to illnesses, became an epidemic during the 1980s

H. Ross Perot

________________ ran for president in 1992 as a third-party candidate after a grassroots movement put him on the ballot in all fifty states

Jesse Jackson

first African American to make a serious run for a presidential nomination

Grenada

island nation invaded by the United States in 1983

Strategic Defense Initiative

nicknamed "Star Wars"

Capital gains tax

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

Reagan Doctrine

policy of supporting guerrilla groups fighting communist or pro-Soviet governments

Perestroika

restructuring plan instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s to save the Soviet economy; allowing some private enterprise and profit making

Rainbow coalition

term used by presidential candidate Jesse Jackson for a broad group of minorities and the poor

Berlin Wall

the tearing down of the __________ in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War