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Vocab
A conservative surge
End of the cold war
A new role in the world
Conflict in the middle east
100
an tempary economic slump?
What is recession?
100
president from 1976-1980
Who is Jimmy Carter?
100
Invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
The United States first arms control treaty with the Soviet Union.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or SALT?
100
leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Who is Yasir Arafat
200
when the government spends only as much money as it collects.
What is balanced budget?
200
the person who got overthrown by the Iranians.
Who is the Shah?
200
He denounced the the Soviet Union as a evil empire.
who is Ronald Reagan?
200
country which workers joined students in a campaign to win democratic reforms on may 1989
What is China
200
He wanted Iran to return to a very strictt form of islam
Who is Ruholla Khomeini
300
when the government collects more money than it spends
What is surplus?
300
was the victor of the 1988 presidential election.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
300
Overthrew Somoza in 1979
Who is the leftist rebels?
300
A treaty were the united states and the Soviet Union agreed to destroy 20% of all their nuclear weapons.
What is the Stategic Arms Reduction Treaty or start?
300
In 1990 this person sent troops to invade neighboring country Kuwait.
What is Saddam Hussein
400
Scaling back federal rules for businesses
What is deregulation?
400
person that was a movie star in the 1940s and the 1950s that became president.
who is Ronald Reagan?
400
A laser guided defense system to shoot down enemy missles from space.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI?
400
Country that had 30,000 neclear weapons.
What is Russia
500
when the government spends more money than it collects
What is deficit?
500
vowed to strengthen the military to counter the Soviet Union.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
leader of the Soviet Union in 1985
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
the spread of nuclear arms
What is nuclear proliferation