Economy
This term means to withdraw investments (from); most notably when Americans ______ed from South African businesses.
What is divest?
This was a U.S. plan to build space weapons to stop nuclear missiles.
This group of people, as opposed to liberals, want to lower taxes.
What are conservatives?
This wall, which separated the east and west sides of the German capital, fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Manuel Noriega, the military dictator who was taken in on drug trafficking charges, was the leader of this country.
What is Panama?
These were government checks given to families that would be used to pay for private school.
What are vouchers?
This Caribbean nation was invaded by the Reagan Administration in 1983.
What is Grenada?
This was a political organization that believed in conservative, traditionalist ideas and worked mainly to fulfill religious goals.
What is the Moral Majority?
Nelson Mandela became the first indigenously African leader of this country in 1994.
What is South Africa?
President Reagan gave this speech in Germany, calling Mikhail Gorbachev to commit to an action in the title of the same speech.
What is, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”?
This occurred when bad loans, poor regulation, and risky investments caused bank failures.
What is the Savings and Loan Crisis?
This is the difference between glasnost and perestroika.
What is: glasnost meant more individual freedoms and government openness, while perestroika was about changing how the Soviet economy worked?
This term is defined as the resurgence of the conservative movement.
What is the New Right?
This communist country, which collapsed after the Soviet Union, faced heavy challenges throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
What is Yugoslavia?
This chronic condition which predominantly affected the LGBTQ+ community in the 1980s went largely ignored by President Reagan and his administration.
What is AIDS?
This is when the government spends more money than it takes in.
What is the budget deficit?
President Reagan used the profits from selling arms (weapons) to Iran to fund this group in Nicaragua.
Who are the Contras?
What are nominee for president or vice president, and Supreme Court Justice?
This treaty, signed by the US and the USSR, limited the production of nuclear arms by 80%.
What is the START I Treaty?
This person, the same man who defended Gorbachev against a coup and chose Vladimir Putin to succeed him, was the first leader of the Russian Federation.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
This is the idea that the economy grows when the government lowers taxes on corporations so that they may create new business.
What is supply-side (or trickle-down) economics?
This is the group of freedom fighters who fought against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan (they eventually became the Taliban.)
Who are the mujahideen?
This term is defined as a program required by the federal government that it does not help pay for.
What is an unfunded mandate?
Saddam Hussein invaded this country for its oil, starting the Gulf War in the process.
What is Kuwait?
Tank Man, one of the most iconic pictures in modern world history, was taken during this event.