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39 Cards in this Set
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Iran hostage crisis
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Of all difficulties carter faced none was more damaging
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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A militant islamic leader
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Ronald reagan
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Republican canidate
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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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Groups leader
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Reaganomics
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Called for less government involvement in the economy
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Supply- side economics
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Argued that lowering the top income
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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 unit
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Lech walesa
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An electrician at a gdańsk shipyard
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José Napoleón 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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Contras
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A rebel army recruited
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Walter Mondale
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Won the Democratic nomination
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Geraldine Ferraro
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Running mate for mondale
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Sandra day O'Connor
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First women to serve on the Supreme Court
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Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
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Automatic across-the-board cuts in government spending
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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 hit the Reagan White House
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Oliver North
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A white house aide
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Leader of the soviet union in 1985
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Perestroika
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Restructure the soviet economy and government
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Glasnost
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Promised more freedom for the Soviet people
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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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Social studies teacher chosen for a flight aboard the space shuttle
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Challenger
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Space shuttle that exploded
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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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1056
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Lloyd bentsen
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A
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George bush
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A
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Dan Quayle
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A
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Commonwealth of independent states
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A
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Operation desert storm
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A
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Norman schwarzkopf
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A
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Colin Powell
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A
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Americans with Disabilities act
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A
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War on drugs
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