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21 Cards in this Set
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Degeneration
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Declining in quality
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Momentum
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Forward motion; push
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Liberal
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A person who tends to support government intervention to help the needy and favor laws protecting the rights of women and minorities
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Conservative
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A person who tends to favor limited government involvement in the economy, traditional values
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New Right
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political movement supported by reinvigorated conservative groups in the latter half of the 20th century
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Unfunded Mandate
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program or action required but no paid for by the government
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Moral Majority
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Political organization established by Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1979 to advance Christian religious goals
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Supply side economics
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economic theory to achieve long-term growth, government should increase supply of labor and goods rather than use government spending to increase demand
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Deregulation
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reduction or removal of government controls over an industry
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Budget deficit
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Shortfall between the amount of money spent and the amount taken in by the federal government
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National debt
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total amount of money that the federal government owes to the owner of government bonds
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Savings and Loan crisis
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1989 failure of about 1000 savings and loan banks as a result of risky business practices
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AIDS
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; disease that attacks the immune system, began spreading in early 1980s, and remains a serious global health crisis
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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Nicknamed "Star Wars," president Reagan's plan to develop innovative defenses to guard the United States against nuclear missile attacks
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Contras
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Anticommunist counterrevolutionaries who opposed the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s
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Glasnost
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Russian term for "new openness," a policy in the Soviet Union in the 1980s calling for open discussion of national problems
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Perestrolika
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A policy of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s calling for restructuring of the stagnant Soviet economy
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Iran-Contra Affair
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Political scandal under President Reagan involving the transfer of money from secret arms sales to Iran into illegal funds used to support the Contras of Nicargua
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Tiananmen Square
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site in Beijing where Chinese students' pro-democracy protests were put down by the Chinese government in 1989
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Apartheid
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Political system of strict segregation by race in South Africa
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Operation Desert Storm
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1991 American-led attack on Iraqi forces after Iraq refuse to withdraw its troops from Kuwait
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