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31 Cards in this Set
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran kidnaps 52 Americans
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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A militant Islamic leader
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Ronald Reagan
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Crazy actor guy that ran for and became president
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New Right
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Political conservatives
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Moral Majority
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A fundamentalist Christian organization founded in 1979
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Jerry Falwell
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Leader of the Moral Majoity
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Reaganomics
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Based on supply-side economics
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Supply-side economics
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Argued that lowering the top incomes tax rates would spur economic growth
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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A space-based missile defense system
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Solidarity
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An independent trade union
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Lech Walesa
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A election at a Gdańsk shipyards
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Jose Napoleon Duarte
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A moderate
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Sandinistas
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Overthrown the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza
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Contra
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A rebel army recruited, financed, and armed by the CIA
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Walter Mondale
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won the democratic nomination
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Geraldine Ferraro
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Representative from New York
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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The first woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court
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Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
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Balanced budget and Emergency Control Act
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Insider Trading
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The use of confidential financial information for personal gain.
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Iran-Contra Affair
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most serious crisis to hot the Reagan administration
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Oliver North
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He funneled millions of dollars from the Iranian arms sales to the Contras illegally
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985
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Glasnost
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His policy of openness that promised more freedom for the soviet people
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Perestroika
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Gorbachev's plan to restructure the soviet economy and government
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
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Eliminated all medium-range nuclear weapons from Europe.
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Christa McAuliffe
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Was chosen for flight aboard the spacecraft Challenger
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Challenger
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A spacecraft that exploded after takeoff
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AIDS
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Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome
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Jesse Jackson
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Was one of many candidates seeking democratic nomination in 1988
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Michael Dukakis
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Won the Democratic election
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Lloyd Bentsen
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Michael Dukakis' running mate
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