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37 Cards in this Set
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Iran hostage crisis
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52 Americans were held hostage
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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A militant Islamic leader
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Ronald regan
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Republican candidate
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New right
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Political conservatives
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Moral majority
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Fundamentalist Christian organization
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Jerry Falwell
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Lead moral majorities
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Reganomics
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Regans economic plan
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Supply side economics
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The trickle down economics
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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Space based missile defense system
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Solidarity
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Independent trade union
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Lech walesa
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Electrition at a gdańsk
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Jose Napoleon duarte
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Moderate who wanted to end the civil war
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Sandinistas
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Overthrew the dictatorship or Anastasia
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Contras
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Rebel army recruited
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Walter Mondale
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Former Vice President who won the democratic nomination
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Geraldine e Ferraro
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Walters running mate
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Sandra day oconner
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First woman on the Supreme Court
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Gramm rudman Hollingsworth act
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To balance the budgets
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Insider trading
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Use of confidential financial information for personal gain
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Iran contra affair
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When America gave Iran some weapons
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Oliver north
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Whitehouse aide
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Michael Gorbachev
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Leader of the Soviet Union
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Glasnost
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Policy of openness
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Perestroika
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His plan to reconstruct the Soviet Union
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Intermediate range nuclear forces treaty
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Eliminated medium range nukes from Europe
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Jesse Jackson
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African American leader
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Michael Dukakis
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Massachusetts governor
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George bush
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President of the USA
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Dan Quayle
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Senator from Indiana
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Commonwealth of independent states
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Alliances formed by former soviet states
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Operation desert storm
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Forced Iraq to withdrawal from Kuwait
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Norman Schwarzkopf
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Recived a heros welcome from New York City
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Colin powell
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Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff
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Americans with disabilities act
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Prohibited the discrimination against people with disabilities
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War on drugs
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Funded the stop of drug smuggling
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Lloyd Bentsen
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Texas senator
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Aids
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Std that kills amine system
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