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HST316B Unit 4
Reagan and the Cold War Ends
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sun Belt | region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the Southeast and Southwest; saw an influx of population from people seeking a warm and sunny climate |
| Rust Belt | term that refers to an area mostly near the Great Lakes, some of them are considered to be Midwest states, once known for steel production and industry |
| New Right | a coalition of economic, social, and religious conservatives that emerged in the 1980s |
| Detente | an effort to reduce tensions and establish better relations between superpowers in the 1970s; from the French word meaning “easing” or “relaxation” |
| Reaganomics | plan to cut taxes to stimulate the economy, to increase defense spending, and to reduce social programs to balance the budget |
| Deregulation | reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually to create more competition within the industry |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | first woman to serve as a justice on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by President Reagan in 1981 |
| Reagan Doctrine | the United States provided aid to anti-communist groups in an effort to "roll back" Soviet-backed pro-communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. |
| Perestoika | economic reforms in the Soviet Union instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev; the word literally means “restructuring” |
| Glasnot | meaning “openness, transparency”; in the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev, called for glasnost, or an end to such practices as banning books, jamming foreign radio broadcasts, and throwing dissidents into prison |
| Berlin Wall | built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from moving to democratic West Germany, it became a symbol of communist oppression |
| Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty | (START) agreement signed by President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to limit nuclear weapons |
| Contras | Nicaraguan guerrilla group that opposed Sandinistas from 1979 to 1990 |
| Deficit | a shortfall of funds resulting from the government spending more than it takes in |
| Hezbollah | militant Islamist organization formed in Lebanon in 1982 and inspired by the Iranian Revolution |
| Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty | signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987 to eliminate a class of ground-launched missiles |
| mujahideen | Islamic guerrilla fighters, for example, Muslim rebels who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s |
| Christian Right | a coalition of Christian conservatives that emerged in the 1980s |
| Solidarity | trade union formed in the summer of 1980 in Poland; the first self-governing workers’ union to take root in the Soviet bloc |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | plan to develop space-based defenses against nuclear attack, nicknamed “Star Wars” |
| Supply Side Economics | the theory that lowering taxes will stimulate the economy and result in higher employment |
| trickle-down economics | the idea that government policies favoring the wealthy would allow wealth to trickle down to lower-income Americans |
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