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American Pageant 40
Trainor- AP United States History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Neoconservatives | influential group of intellectuals led by irving kristol and norman podhoretz who provided key ideas for the "reagan revolution" |
| Proposition 13 | california ballot initiative of 1978 that set the stage for the "tax revolt"" that reagan rode to victory in 1980 |
| Supply-Side Economics | the economic theory of "reagonomics" that emphasized cutting taxes and government spending in order to stimulate investment, productivity, and economic growth by private enterprise |
| Yuppies | term for "young urban professionals" of the 1980s who flaunted their wealth through conspicious consumer spenidng |
| Boll Weevils | conservative southern democrats who supported reagan's economic policies in congress |
| Solidarity | polish labor union crushed by the communist-imposed martial-law regime in 1983 |
| Sandinistas | the leftist revolutionary rulers of nicaragua, strongly opposed by the reagan administration |
| Star Wars | popular name for reagan's proposed space-based nuclear defense system, officially called the strategic defense initiative (SDI) |
| Berlin Wall | physical symbol of the cold war and divided europe that came down in 1989 |
| Operation Desert Storm | code name for the military operation of the "hundred hour war" that drove saddam hussein out of kuwait |
| Jimmy Carter | well-meaning president who was swamped bythe 1980 reagan landslide but later won the nobel peace prize |
| Edward Kennedy | liberal democratic senator whose opposition to carter helped divide the democrats in 1980 |
| Ronald Reagan | political darling of republican conservatives who won landslide election victories in 1980 and 1984 |
| Sandinistas | ruling leftist party of nicaragua fiercely opposed by the reagan administration |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | brilliant legal scholar appointed by reagan as thefirst woman justice on the supreme court |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | soviet leader whose summit rmeetings with reagan achieved an armscontrol breakthrough in 1987 |
| George Bush, Sr. | long-time republican political figure who defeated dukakis for the presidency in 1988 |
| Contras | anti-communist nicaraguan rebels strongly backed by the reagan administration |
| Saddam Hussein | iraqi dictator defeated by the united states and its allies in the persian gulf war |
| Corazon Aquino | filipino leader who ousted dictator marcos with american backing in 1986 revolt |
| Walter Mondale | jimmy carter's vice president who lost badly to ronald reagan in the 1984 election |
| Geraldine Ferraro | first woman to be nominated to a major party ticket as democratic vice presidential candidate in 1984 |
| Jerry Falwell | prominent evangelical minister, leader of the moral majority |
| Norman Schwartzkopf | successful commander of American forces in the first persian gulf war |
| Clarence Thomas | controversial supreme court justice who narrowly won confirmation despite charges of sexual harassment |
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