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