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30 Cards in this Set
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"Supply side economics"
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Reaganomics
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"Tight money"
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initiated by federal reserve uder carter
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"Yuppies"
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Youge urban professionals,
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Window of Vulnerability
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justified massive 2 trillion expenditures in arms race
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Walter Mondale
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1984 democrat opponent of Reagan
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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stars wars, laser to shoot down nukes. Reagan's Kremlin trump card
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Geraldine Ferraro
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congresswomen of NY 1st female running for VP
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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new soviet leader radical reforms
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Corazon Aquino
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Reagan helped CA out dictator for Philippines
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Ferdinand Marcos
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ex Filipino dictator
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Glasnost
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"openness" be less secret
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Perestroika
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"restructuring" revive economy
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INF treaty
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banned all intermediate range nuclear missiles from Europe
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Iran-Contra
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scandal, money was going to contras against congress
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Pro-Choice
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women's right to vote
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Oliver North
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"Ollie" America's favorite traitor, helped Reagan commit felonies destroyed evidence
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John Poindexter
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advisor of Reagan' s defense, foreign polic, national security
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Caspar Weinberger
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US sec of defense involved in SDI and Iran-Contra scandal
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Sandra Day O'Conner
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conservative judge 1st women to ascend to bench
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Norma McCarvey
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"Roe"
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Wards' Cove Packing v. Antonia and Martin v. Wilks 1989
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more difficult to prove and employer practiced racial discrimination
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Roe v. Wade 1973
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Supreme court prohidited states from interfering with a womens abortion decisions
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Webster v. Reproductive health services 1992
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compromised Roes protection of abortion rights
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey 1992
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states restrict acess to abortion if "no undue burden on women"
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Savings and loan institutuions
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Reagan used 500 million dolllars to rescue the S and L
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Robert Bork
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Reagan's ultraconservative nominee for supreme court
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Edwin Meese
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attorney general accused of influence peddling
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Gary Hart
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demo nom for 1988 charges of sexual misconduct
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Jesse Jackson
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black demo nominee lost"rainbow coalition" of minorites
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Micheal Dukakis
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no emotion democart lost to Bush senor 1988
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