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80 Cards in this Set
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inauguration of reagan
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turing point hostages released
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reaganomics
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reagans idea of economics-tax break to rich trickel down theory
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james watt
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bigest laibility for reagan-lets pave the forest beach boys concert
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moral majority
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conservative religious taditional people though too much changein 60s lets go back to 50s
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defense spending
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spend a lot of money for arms
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trade deficits
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import more than export lots in 80s
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deregulation
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concept to ged rid of some of the new deal programs
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walter mondale
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ran against reagan in 84 got crushed
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geraldine ferraro
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dem nom for vp 1st women to be nom for vp or president
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jesse jackson
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tired to take head of civil rights movement after MLK died Rainbow Coolition get blacks more involved
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Sandra Day Oconnor
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1st women appointed to supreme court
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crash of 87
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stock market crashes doesnt hit until late 80s and early 90s
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evil empire
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soviet union
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Afghanistan
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invaded by soviet union in 79 so US didnt go to Moscow Olympics soviet unions version of vietnam
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SALT 2
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nuclear talks with soviet union and us carter signed but senate never ratified
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solidarity
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trade union in Poland took over communism
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Lech Walesa
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end of 80s President of Poland leader of solidarity
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Sandinistas
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communist leaders of Nicaragua we didnt like them
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contras
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against sandinistas we supported in nicaraguas civil war
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grenada
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we took over in 6 hours b/c it was way to communist
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Lebanon
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send in peace keeping troops
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korean airlines
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accidentaly flew over soviet airspace soviets shot down no warning
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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soviet leader changed soviet union
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sdi
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star wars build better weapons never happened
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chernobyl
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worst nuclear disaster in soviet union
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iran-contra affair
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sold weapons to iranians then gave the money to the contras very illegal
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colonel oliver north
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in charge of iran-contra affair
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muammar khadafy
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libian leader hated US now wants to be our friend
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george bush
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successor to reagan
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michael dukakis
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dem nom against bush
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dan quayle
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vp under bush dumb
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willie horton case
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cost dukakis the election-criminal released
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s & l scandal
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went banckrupt people lost all their money no insurance
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clarence thomas
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nom for supreme court by bush balck man
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anita hill
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accusedd thomas of sexual assault he said vs she said
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tiananmen square
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bejing pro democratic movement in 89
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deng xiao-ping
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leader of china put down pro democratic movement
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perestrokia
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restructuring
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glasnost
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openess
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fall of the berlin wall
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nov 9 1989
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boris yeltsin
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power at end of soviet union
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commonwealth of independent states
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soviet union after its fall
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gulf war
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91 against hussein Desert Storm
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gen norman schwarzkopf
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general in charge of gulf war planned it perfectly
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scud missiles
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by hussein to Isreal, kuwait, etc. we were afraid that they contained biological warfare
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family values
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bush used in election tradition
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H Ross Perot
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reform party canditdate
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deficit budget
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90s change major deficit red to black (good)
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health care reform
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big topic make it free reduce it?
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brady bill
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limit weapons
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world trade center bombing
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feb 93 islamic extremists bombeed this place
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branch davidains
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religious cult thought gvt went to far lead to oklahoma city bombing
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bob dole
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rep nom 96
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GATT
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general agreement on trade and tariffs international
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NAFTA
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north american free trade association good cans go safely through the countries
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Al gore
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dem non 2000 most populat votes
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George W. Bush
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rep nom 200 wins
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studio 54
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most famous disco place picky about who could get in lots of drugs
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Me decade
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nickname for the 70s
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love canal
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river used to dump chemicals families got sick sued relocated
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south boston high
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lots of violence and protesting to desegregating schools
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george moscone
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san fran mayor assasinated
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harvey milk
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san fran city supervisor
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harvey milk
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san fran city supervisor assassinated
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dan white
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killed milk & moscone
antigay ex-city supervior quit then wanted job back but couldnt get it back so killed them twinkie verdict too much stress and twinkies |
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ayatollah khomeini
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leader of iran
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3 mile island
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palce where US's worst muclear disaster happened in Penn
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OPEC
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organization of pretroleum exporting countries raised oil prices bad for US
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anwar sadat
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leader of egypt
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menachim Begin
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leader of israel
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yuppies
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wealthy, young professionals
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corporate raiders
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big companies take over small ones then resell
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televangelism
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jesus theme park mixed fun with religion on tv
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AIDS
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disease huge in 80s tons of people die they dont do much about it b/c people get it by doing things most people dont agree with
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smart bombs
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bombs that could be guided for where to hit
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WEB DuBios
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social philosopher color line is the problem
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stone mountain
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souths version of mt rushmore
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louis farrakhan
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nation islam leader white supremecy is bad
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walter winchell
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gossip collumnist radio talk show
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andy warhol
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made instant icon of famous transformed celbs into art
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