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The Conservative Revolution:Reagan/80s
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9th Grade
05/03/2011

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Moral Majority
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a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying
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Jerry Falwell
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the founder of the Moral Majority
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Reagonomics
Definition

Reagon's economics, also called supply-side economics

  1. Reduce Growth of Government spending.
  2. Reduce Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax.
  3. Reduce Government regulation.
  4. Control the money supply to reduce inflation.
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Evil Empire
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Reagon's description of the Soviet Union
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Strategic Defense Initative
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also known as Star Wars, Reagon's ideas which used  ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles
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Election of 84
Definition
Reagon defeats Walter Mondale
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Geraldine Ferraro
Definition
Walter Mondale's VP canidate, first woman on a major presidential election
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'84 LA Olympics
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communist countries boycott this in response to America boycotting the Moscow Olympics
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AIDS
Definition
 acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system, was found mostly in gay men and was spreading, people found treatment for this to be controversial
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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first female supreme court justice
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Challenger
Definition
NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members
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Iran-Contra Affair
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CIA trained Nicaraguan guerillas trying to rebel against their communist gov, officials took profits from secret army sales to Iran and sent profits to these guerillas, arm sales encourage the release of American Hostages held in Lebanon
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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leader of the Soviet union in 1985
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Glasnost
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Russian meaning "political openess," policy to reform the ailing Soviet system
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Perestroika
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Russian for "restructing," an economic policy to allow limited free enterprise
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INF treaty
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Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces, an aggreement signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachevf that provided for the destruction of about 2,500 American and Soviet missiles in Europe
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