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39 Cards in this Set

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Iran hostage crisis
Of all difficulties carter faced none was more damaging
Ayatollah Khomeini
A militant islamic leader
Ronald reagan
Republican canidate
New right
Political conservatives
Moral majority
A fundamentalist Christian organization founded in 1979
Jerry falwell
Groups leader
Reaganomics
Called for less government involvement in the economy
Supply- side economics
Argued that lowering the top income
Strategic defense initiative
A space based missile-defense system
Solidarity
An independent trade unit
Lech walesa
An electrician at a gdańsk shipyard
José Napoleón duarte
A moderate
Sandinistas
Overthrown the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza
Contras
A rebel army recruited
Walter Mondale
Won the Democratic nomination
Geraldine Ferraro
Running mate for mondale
Sandra day O'Connor
First women to serve on the Supreme Court
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
Automatic across-the-board cuts in government spending
Insider trading
The use of confidential financial information for personal gain
Iran-Contra affair
Most serious crisis to hit the Reagan White House
Oliver North
A white house aide
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leader of the soviet union in 1985
Perestroika
Restructure the soviet economy and government
Glasnost
Promised more freedom for the Soviet people
Intermediate range nuclear Forces treaty
Eliminated all medium-range nuclear weapons from Europe
Christa McAuliffe
Social studies teacher chosen for a flight aboard the space shuttle
Challenger
Space shuttle that exploded
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Jesse jackson
African american leader
Michael Dukakis
1056
Lloyd bentsen
A
George bush
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Dan Quayle
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Commonwealth of independent states
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Operation desert storm
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Norman schwarzkopf
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Colin Powell
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Americans with Disabilities act
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War on drugs
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