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R. R.
80s Foreign Affairs
1980s Culture
Issues to Resolve
Key Terms
100
the political party of Ronald Wilson Reagan
What is Republican?
100
This symbol of communism came down in 1989.
What was the Berlin Wall?
100
Many Americans moved to this region with a warmer climate in the southern United States during the 1980s.
What is the Sun Belt?
100
This new disease caused death by crippling the body's ability to fight off infection.
What is AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)?
100
a reusable spacecraft, like the Challenger
What is a space shuttle?
200
Not only was Ronald Reagan an actor and president of the Screen Actors' Guild, he was governor of this state.
What is California?
200
The PLO, which attacked Israel in the 1980s, stands for these 3 words.
What is the Palestinian Liberation Organization?
200
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 allowed illegal aliens to apply for this.
What is US citizenship?
200
Trapped heat in the earth's atmosphere causes the earth to warm; it is known as this.
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
a region of concentrated ozone in the upper atmosphere that shields the earth from harmful radiation (hint, hint)
What is the ozone layer?
300
Ronald Reagan's vice-president for 8 years, and eventual President himself
Who is George H. W. Bush?
300
Lech Walesa, leader of a labor union, stood up to the Soviet Union.  He is from this eastern European country, which became free of the Soviets.
What is Poland?
300
This was a new music format in the 1980s.
What is a CD (compact disc)?
300
Scientists discovered that smoke and other emissions combined with water vapor caused this harmful weather-related phenomena.
What is acid rain?
300
the amount by which a country's imports is less than the value of its exports; an unfavorable balance of trade
What is a trade deficit?
400
the nickname of the economic plans of President Reagan and his administration
What is Reaganomics?
400
President Reagan met with this Soviet president to limit nuclear arms.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
400
NOW stand for this.
What is the National Organization for Women?
400
This power source, which does not use fossil fuels, also produces a dangerous by-product along with energy.
What is nuclear power?
400
a shortage in the budget as a result of spending more money than is available
What is a budget deficit?
500
President Ronald Reagan appointed her as the first female justice to serve on the US Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
500
President Reagan supported the Contras, anti-communist rebels in this Central American country.
What is Nicaragua?
500
This device allowed Americans to record TV shows and to buy and rent movies to watch on TV.
What is a VCR (video cassette recorder)?
500
"A Nation at Risk" was a 1980s alarming report on this topic.
What is education?
500
legal racial segregation as practiced in South Africa during the 1980s
What is apartheid?