Ch 25: The Conservative Resurgence

Front 1

liberal

Back 1

a person who generally supports government intervention to help the needy and protect the rights of women and minorities

Front 2

conservative

Back 2

a person who generally supports limited government involvement in the economy and community help for the needy, and upholds traditional values

Front 3

New Right

Back 3

a resurgent political movement that was a coalition of several conservative groups

Front 4

unfunded mandate

Back 4

programs required but not paid for by the federal government

Front 5

Moral Majority

Back 5

a political organization founded by Jerry Falwell in 1979 to advance religious goals

Front 6

Ronald Reagan

Back 6

the Republican candidate for president in 1980, who won the election with the help of the growing conservative movement

Front 7

supply-side economics

Back 7

an economic theory which holds that the government should increase the supply of labor and goods, rather than government spending, to achieve economic goals

Front 8

deregulation

Back 8

the reduction or removal of government control over industry

Front 9

budget deficit

Back 9

the shortfall between the amount of money spent and the amount of money taken in by the government

Front 10

national debt

Back 10

the amount of money the federal government owes to owners of government bonds

Front 11

Savings and Loan crisis

Back 11

the failure of 1,000 savings and loan banks in 1989 due to risky business practices

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voucher

Back 12

a government check that could be used by parents to pay tuition at private schools

Front 13

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Back 13

a disease with no known cure that attacks the immune system; began spreading in the early 1980s

Front 14

Strategic Defense Initiative

Back 14

President Reagan’s plan to develop innovative defenses to guard the U.S. against nuclear missile attacks

Front 15

Contras

Back 15

anticommunist counterrevolutionaries in Nicaragua who were backed by the Reagan administration

Front 16

Mikhail Gorbachev

Back 16

the President of the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 who ushered in a new era of social and economic reforms

Front 17

glasnost

Back 17

Russian term meaning “a new openness,” a policy in the Soviet Union in the 1980s calling for open discussion of national problems

Front 18

perestroika

Back 18

a policy in the Soviet Union in the 1980s calling for restructuring of the stagnant Soviet economy

Front 19

Iran-Contra affair

Back 19

a political scandal under President Reagan involving the use of money from secret arm sales to Iran to illegally support the Contras in Nicaragua

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Manuel Noriega

Back 20

Panama’s dictator who was arrested by U.S. troops in 1989 and convicted of drug trafficking

Front 21

Tiananmen Square

Back 21

the site in Beijing where, in 1989, Chinese students staged prodemocracy protests that were put down by the Chinese government

Front 22

apartheid

Back 22

a political system of strict racial segregation in South Africa

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Nelson Mandela

Back 23

the leader of South Africa’s antiapartheid movement

Front 24

divest

Back 24

to withdraw investments

Front 25

Saddam Hussein

Back 25

the dictator of Iraq, who invaded Kuwait in 1990 in an effort to gain control of 20% of the world’s oil production

Front 26

Operation Desert Storm

Back 26

1991 American-led attack on Iraqi forces to expel them from Kuwait