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Question | Answer |
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Program required but not paid for by the federal government | Unfunded mandate |
Politicians who generally favor government intervention in the economy to address inequalities | Liberals |
Founded by Reverend Jerry Falwell to fulfill religious goals | Moral Majority |
Politicians who generally favor limited government intervention in the economy | Conservatives |
Resurgent conservative movement that grew rapidly during the 60's and 70's | New Right |
Conservative president elected in 1980 | Ronald Regan |
Foreign policy preferred by liberals | International cooperation |
Some conservatives believe that this endangers economic growth and individual choices | Large central government |
Group that warns about the dangers posed to society by abandoning traditional values | Neoconservatives |
Ronald Reagan won the pres election because he convinced many Americans he could do this | Usher in a new era of prosperity |
Reagan administration presided over the deregulation of these industries | Airline, telecommunications, banking |
Liberals are against these because they take money away from public schools | Vouchers |
What did Reagan do that caused a budget deficit | Reduced taxes but increased defense spending |
Lower taxes would encourage people to work more so that they would have more money to spend | Theory of Supply Side Economics |
Amount of money owed by the federal government; sky rocketed during Reagan's presidency | National debt |
Result of fraudulent business activity and risky lending n which many banks failed | Savings and Loan crisis |
Emphasized tax cuts | Reaganomics |
These happened in 1983 | Economy turned around, working poor increased |
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor consistently broke with other conservative judges on the issue | Abortion |
Reported declining test scores of students | Nation at Risk |
Proposed program in which land and space based lasers would destroy missiles aimed at US before they could reach the target | SDI-Strategic Defense Initiative |
Anticommunist counter revolutionaries in Nicaragua backed by US to get rid of Communist influence | Contras |
1985 Pres. of Soviet Union who brought about many reforms | Mikhail Gorbachev |
A new openness -Soviet Union | Glasnost |
Reforming the Soviet System | Perestroika |
Political scandal under Pres. Reagan involving use of money from secret arms sales to Iran to illegally support the Contras in Nicaragua | Iran Contra Affair |
Massive arms buildup occurred during his administration | Ronald Reagan |
Why did Reagan support rebellions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Grenada | To protect human rights |
Reduce number of nuclear weapons in the world | START I treaty |
Symbolized the end of Communist Europe | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
Leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa-elected in free election | Nelson Mandela |
Oppressive system of rigid segregation | Apartheid |
Leader of Panama convicted in the United States of drug trafficking | Manuel Noriega |
American attack on Iraqi forces in Middle East | Operation Desert Storm |
Scene of pro-democracy protests in China in which hundreds of people were killed | Tiananmen Square |
Dictator of Iraq who ordered the invasion of Kuwait | Saddam Hussein |
The Bush administration tried to stop drugs from coming into the USA from this here | Latin America |
How did Congress pressure South Africa to change its apartheid system | Imposing economic sanctions |
Launched by Bush to protect human rights in Somalia | Operation Restore Hope |
Describes the 1991 Persian Gulf War | Short, with few American casualties |
Disease of the immune system that first appeared in 1981 | AIDS-Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
Preferred way conservatives help the needy | Charity provided by private organizations and individuals |
In the 1970's which group supported civil rights laws protecting the rights of minorities and women | Liberals |
Why did conservatives gain power in the 1970's | Many white southerners opposed the civil rights laws of the 1960's |
According to supply side economics, what did Reagan need to do? | Cut taxes and cut spending on social programs |
The richest Americans received the largest tax cuts | Economic Recovery Act of 1981 |
Promise of George H. W. Bush during his election campaign of 1988 | Not raise taxes |
Why did Gorbachev pursue glasnost and perestroika reforms? | The Soviet economy could not keep up with the arms race |
What did Boris Yelstin do in August 1991 | Rallied millions of Russians to support Gorbachev's reforms |