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