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Leader of the Moral Majority lobbying group.
Who is Jerry Falwell?
The Communist government of this Latin American nation was called the Sandinistas.
Where is Nicaragua?
This law's scope was expanded to include banning employment discrimination against people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The theory that states that economic growth depends on increasing the supply of goods and services by cutting taxes on individuals and corporations.
What is supply-side economics?
This movement comprised various special-interest groups who supported conservative causes, such as the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.
What is the New Right?
This disease ran rampant through the United States during the early 1980s, cause many deaths from pneumonia, and other respiratory ailments.
What is HIV/AIDS?
This political organization's purpose was to fight for an Arab Palestine State that would include land claimed by Israel.
What is the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)?
The deregulation of the banking industry led to overextending of low-cost home loans to the public that put many banks into insolvency.
What is the savings and loan crisis?
This 1985 Supreme Court case determined that schools have the authority to search students' bags and lockers if there is reasonable grounds for suspecting that a search will turn up evidence.
What is New Jersey v. T.L.O.?
This military program was founded to create a "missile shield" over American air space.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
President of the United State at the time of the removal of the Berlin Wall.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This first war occurred as a result of Saddam Hussein invading neighboring Kuwait to take control of its oil fields.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
The U.S. government's sale of weapons to Iran, then transferring the funds from the sale to accounts controlled by the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
This government policy called for the United States to openly support anticommunist insurgents and movements worldwide.
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
This agreement required the USA and USSR to remove and dismantle all missiles in Europe with a targeting range of 300-3,400 miles.
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty)?
US military officer who accepted responsibility for the Iran-Contra Scandal.
Who is Colonel Oliver North?
Location of a successful military raid to rescue American college students from invading Cuban military elements in 1983.
Where is Grenada?
The United States boycotted this event in Moscow in 1980 and the Soviet Union returned the boycott when the event was held in Los Angeles in 1984.
What are the Summer Olympic Games?
Called for a moratorium on the production, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons by the USA and the USSR.
What is the nuclear freeze movement?
NASA tragedy that was broadcast live on television to millions of American school children in 1986.
What is the Challenger Shuttle Explosion?
International pop star and multi-million album selling recording artist who starred in The Whiz, Pepsi Commercials, and music videos like Thriller.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Place in the 1980s where music became videos that influenced an entire generation.
What is MTV?
A global charity concert to raise money to feed drought-stricken Ethiopia.
What is Live Aid?
This communications device first became available to the general public in 1984.
What are Cell Phones?
This new form of home entertainment began to replace open air broadcast television by the end of the 1980s.
What is cable television?