“It’s morning again in America!” (Reagan Domestic)
The coalition of conservative Americans including Southern whites, business leaders, and religious Americans that helped Reagan get elected in 1980.
What is the New Right?
Reagan referred to the USSR as this in a speech.
What is the Evil Empire?
In 1990, Iraq invaded this country, which sparked the Persian Gulf War.
What is Kuwait?
Clinton portrayed himself as more moderate to atttract conserevative voters when he referred to himself as this.
What is a New Democrat?
During Clinton's presidency, manufacturing continued to decline as jobs were outsourced to countries with cheaper labor and less regulations in this process.
What is globalization?
Social spending cuts, increased military spending, deregulation, and tax cuts for the rich.
What are the core practices of Reaganomics?
The U.S. provided weapons and funding to the Contras, who were fighting against this communist government in Nicaragua.
Who are the Sandinistas?
The U.S.'s victory in the Gulf War was seen as a recovery from its defeat in this earlier war.
What is the Vietnam War?
Clinton's wife, Hillary, led the failed congressional effort for this. By the late 1990s, the U.S. was the only industrialized country without it.
What is universal health care?
In 1994, Clinton signed this, which reduced tariffs and other barriers to trade between Mexico, Canada, and the US creating the largest free trade zone in the world of 450 million people.
What is NAFTA? (North American Free Trade Agreement)
By the end of Reagan's first term, this had more than doubled.
What is the national debt?
Reagan came under heavy criticism, but ultimately remained popular, when it was revealed that his administration had been illegally funneling profits to the Contras from arms sales to this country.
What is Iran?
This Clinton campaign slogan summarized a main reason for his victory over Bush in the 1992 election.
What is "It's the economy, stupid."
Clinton’s strategy to demonize radical Republicans, while taking more moderate Repub. ideas
What is Triangulation?
Clinton sent American troops to Europe to combat Serbian ethnic cleansing in the 1990s after the break-up of this former communist country.
What is Yugoslavia?
This was an expensive and impractical missile defense system that Reagan invested billions in.
What is SDI (the Strategic Defense Initiative) aka "Star Wars?"
Reagan worked with this Soviet leader to reduce the nuclear arms race.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This agreement with the USSR led to them and the US reducing their number of nuclear weapons to around 3,000.
What is START II?
Clinton was impeached for perjury after lying about not ahving sexual relations with this woman.
Who is Monica Lewinski?
Clinton was criticized for his inaction in regards to this crisis in 1994.
Since Reagan's presidency, corporations have used the majority of their relief from tax cuts not on investment, innovation, or wages, but on this.
What are stock buybacks?
Reagan and the leader of the USSR signed this, which destroyed intermediate-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
What is the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Agreement?
A major symbol that the Cold War was ending. This came down in November 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
In 1996, Clinton worked with Congressional Republicans to impose time constraints and work requirements for Americans receiving this from the federal government.
What is welfare?
In 1993, Clinton scored a foreign policy victory when he helped negotiate this step towards peace in the Middle East when Israel recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organization and achknowledged a 2-state solution.
What are the Oslo Accords?