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Unit 9
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New Conservatism | term to describe right-wing movement that lifted Republican Party to presidency in 1980 election |
| Reagan Revolution | term to describe conservative changes made to government starting in 1980; smaller government |
| supply side economics (or Reaganomics or trickle down theory) | promoted large tax breaks for wealthy so as to stimulate investment and create jobs |
| detente | "thawing" of the Cold War in the early 1970s under Nixon |
| affirmative action | policy that seeks to redress past wrongs to marginalized groups |
| Bakke v California (1978) | made racial or gender based quotas illegal but said these could be one factor of many |
| Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) | Missile defense system using lasers to shoot nuclear missiles out of sky |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader who assumed power in 1985; started negotiations with US |
| Economic Tax Recovery Act of 1981 | reduced highest tax bracket from 70% to 50%; lowest from 14% to 11% |
| 1986 Immigration Act | legalized 2.7 million immigrants who had entered the US prior to 1982 |
| Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 | law that made it illegal to hire most illegal immigrants |
| Iran-Contra Affair | controversy in which the Reagan Administration illegally sold weapons to Contras in Nicaragua to fight communists |
| national debt | the amount of money the federal government has borrowed (and still owes) to carry out government functions |
| Gulf War or Operation Desert Storm | Liberated Kuwait from Iraqi forces that had invaded and threatened oil supplies to West |
| USA (United Strengthening America) Patriot (Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Acts | Gave government expanded ability to obtain information on US citizens for security purposes |
| globalization | the idea of increased interaction and integration amongst the world's peoples |
| Al Qaeda | terrorist organization responsible for September 11 attacks |
| Osama bin Laden | leader of Al Qaeda |
| Saddam Hussein | leader of Iraq, executed by Iraqi tribunal in 2006 |
| Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) | health-care reform bill passed in 2009 |
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