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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