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31 Cards in this Set
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Iran hostage crisis
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50 American hostages in Iran
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Ayatollah Khumeini
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Ronald Reagan
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New Right
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Reagan's strongest support
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Moral Majority
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Forefront of the new right
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Jerry Faldwell
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Groups leader
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Reaganomics
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Less involvement of government in economy
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Supply-side economics
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Reaganomics was based on this
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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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The unions leader
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José Napoleón Duarte
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Won election
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Sandinistas
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Nicaraguan rebels
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Contras
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Rebel army
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Walter Mondale
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Won democratic nomination
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Geraldine Ferraro
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Walters running mate
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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First woman on supreme court
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Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
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Automatic across the board government spending cuts
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Insider trading
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Use of financial info for personal gain
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Iran-Contra affair
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Blahblahblah
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Oliver North
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White House aid
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S&L crisis
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Blahblahblah
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet Union leader
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Glasnost
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His policy of openness
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Perestroika
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Plan to reconstruct the soviet economy
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INF
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Immediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty
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AIDS
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
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Jesse Jackson
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African American leader
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Michael Dukakis
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Democrat nominee
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Lloyd Bentson
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His running mate
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George Bush
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Republican nominee
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Dan Quayle
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Running mate
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