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False

Believers in supply-side economica supported higher taxes, allowing businesses and investors to use extra capital on new investments.

Downsizing

Laying off workers and managers to increase a company's efficiency

Capital gains tax

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

End deficit spending

The central message of H. Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign was the need to

Glasnot

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

Perestroika

"Restructuring," allowing some private enterprise and profit making in the Soviet Union

Super stations

"__________," television stations that sold low-cost sports amd entertainment programs via satellite to cable companies throughout the nation, changed broadcasting in the late 1970s and 1980s.

WTBS

In 1975, entrepreneur Ted Turner launched the television station __________.

American society had lost its way

Members of the new conservative coalition that has come together by the late 1970s were united by a common belief that

True

President Reagan believed that cutting taxes and building up the military were more important than balancing the budget.

Rainbow coalition

Term used by presidential canidate Jesse Jackson for a broad group of minorities and the poor

Baby boomers entering the workforce

That rapid economic growth of the 1980s and the cultural emphasis on accumulating wealth was?

Panama

While President George H.W. Bush struggled to deal with events in Eastern Europe and Asia, a crisis developed in

Barry Goldwater

Conservative Republican nominee for president in 1964

The U.S. military

During his presidency, Reagan launched the largest peacetime buildup of

Senior

During the 1980s, __________ citizens became vocal in the political arena, especially about issues such as Social Security and Medicare.

Taxes were too high

For many Americans, the conservative idea that the government had become too big meant simply that

Iraq had invaded Kuwait

In January 1991, the United Nations went to war in the Persian Gulf for what reason

China

In May 1989, students and workers held demonstrations calling for democracy in

Contras in Nicaragua

In a scandal that tainted President Reagan's second term in office, money from the secret sale of the weapons to Iran was given to the

Asking Congress to pass a huge tax cut

In an approach to economic policy that came to be called "Reaganomics," President Ronald Reagan sought to krep interest rates high while

The Soviet Union

In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of

Moral Majority

Movement founded by Jerry Falwell that backed conservative canidates and issues

Massive Soviet defense spending would cause the Communist system to collapse

President Reagan began a massive buildup of the U.S. military, in part because he believed that

False

President Reagan believed that the United States should oppse guerilla groups fighting to overthrow Communist or pro-Soviet goverments, an approach that came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine.

Government regulations were excessive and hurt the economy

President Reagan encouraged and promoted deregulation because he believed that

Reaganomics

President Reagan encouraged the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates and asked Congress to pass a massive tax cut, in what critics called

Bully Graham

Protestant minister who built a national following by the late 1970s

Sunbelt

Southern and Western regions of the United States

True

The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 marked the beginning of the end of the cold war.

True

The economic expansion the nation experienced during Reagan's first term as president made him very popular, contributing to his reelection in 1984.

Wealthiest

The portion of the nation's wealth earned by the __________ 5 perect of Americans began to rise in the late 1980s.

Began reducing its armed forces and canceling orders for military equipment

The recession that began in 1990 was caused by the end of the Cold War, because the United States

Middle- and upper-class Americans

The string enconomic growth of the 1980s mostly benefited

Cutting social programs

The tax cut President Reagan won from Congress would increase the budget deficit, so Reagan proposed __________ to keep the deficit under control.

"Live Aid"

To raise money for starving people in Ethiopia, singer Bob Geldof oragnized a series of concerts around the world called

Government

Unlike most liberals, conservatives tend to be fundamentally distrustful of the power of

Southerners began shifting their votes to the Republican Party

What development was necessary for conservatives to build a coalition that could elect a president

Videocassette recorders

What entertainment technology changed television viewing habits as well as the movie industry in the 1980s

Evangelical Protestants

What was the largest religious group within the social conservative movement that formed by the late 1970s

Religious faith and private efforts

While liberals generally believe that the government should help disadventaged Americans through social programs, many conservatives believe that social problems can be solved through

Saddam Hussein

Who sent his army to invade oil-rich Kuwait in August 1990

William F. Buckley

Worked to spread conservative ideas to a wider audience by founding the magazine National Review

AIDs

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