Vocab
Conservatives began calling for these to pay tuition to private schools.
What are vouchers?
Group who supported social programs for the disadvantaged through higher taxes, wanted to protect the rights of minorities, and wanted to regulate industry.
Who are liberals?
Republican who defeated Jimmy Carter in the Election of 1980.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
Country that Reagan called an "evil empire" in a speech.
What was the Soviet Union?
In 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded this country.
What was Kuwait?
Racial segregation in South Africa.
What was apartheid?
Group that wanted to limit wasteful spending on social programs, reduce taxes, deregulate industry, and rely on a strong national defense and actively fight communism in other countries.
What are conservatives?
The first female Supreme Court justice.
Who was Sandra Day O'Connor?
Proposal by Reagan for lasers that could shoot down missiles.
What was SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) or Star Wars?
Scandal during the Reagan administration that involved selling weapons to one country and using that money to fund rebels in another country.
What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
Belief that lower taxes would increase spending.
What is supply-side economics?
In 1981, 11,000 of these people were fired by Reagan when they refused to end their strike.
Who were air traffic controllers?
Imprisoned leader of the anti-apartheid movement who was released from prison in 1990 an later became president of South Africa.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Code name of U.S. led effort in the Persian Gulf War.
What was Operation Desert Storm?
Pro-democracy protests were brutally crushed by the Chinese government at this place.
What was Tiananmen Square?
Programs required but not paid for by the government.
What are unfunded mandates?
Rebels in Nicaragua illegally funded by the Reagan administration.
Who were the Contras?
Leader of the Soviet Union who created the policies of glasnost and perestroika.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
Winner of the Election of 1988?
Who was George H.W. Bush?
In 1992, Bush sent U.S. troops to attempt to create a cease-fire in this war-torn African nation.
What was Somalia?
Policy of openness in the Soviet Union.
What was glasnost?
Political organization formed by Rev. Jerry Falwell, worked to bring back school prayer, condemned the ERA and homosexuality.
What is the Moral Majority?
Leader of Panama involved in selling illegal drugs who was overthrown by 12,000 U.S. Marines sent by George Bush.
Who was Manuel Noriega?
Policy of reforming the Soviet system.
What was perestroika?
About 1,000 banks failed due to fraudulent behavior and risky loans before the federal government spent more than $200 billion to bail them out.
What was the Savings and Loans Crisis?