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Reagan Revolution

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America must be strong and free

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Supply-side economics (Reaganomics)

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reagans prescription for America’s inflation it lowered it by enchanting productivity and increasing the supply of goods (satisfying demand for goods)

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Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981

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Cut the income tax by 25% over 2 1/2 years

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Gramm-Rudman Act

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Imposed automatic deficit reduction through across the board spending cuts if Congress wouldn’t curb the budget on its own

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Challenger Disaster

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space shuttle disaster

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Reagan Doctrine

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Reagan’s foreign-policy in keeping with Americas tough stance towards the Soviets. Pledge to America support two groups battling communist governments in the third world

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Contras

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Central intelligence agency groups of anti-Sandinista guerrillas

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Grenada

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Island turn into a fueling station for Cuban troops (supply base)

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Mujahideen

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Fighted the Soviets and communism

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Walter Mondale

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Former vice president under Jimmy Carter outlasted all others in a democratic fields with the nomination controlled by liberal groups

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Geraldine Ferraro

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New York congresswoman running against Mandel

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Leader of the Soviet Union and took the reins presenting a new polish style in contrast to what it had always been

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Perestroika

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Reconstructing of the stagnant communist economy shifting two more free market policies and private ownership

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Glasnost

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Openness and Soviet society in order to allow greater self expression to motivate the masses to move from passive to more of an economic role

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START

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Strategic arms reduction talks this cut the size of long range nuclear arsenals in half

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Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)

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Eliminated most medium range missiles from Europe

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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

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A space-based defense shield of satellites missiles and lasers also called Star Wars would be in space

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Iran-Contra affair

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What happened to the money that was funneled through Swiss banks was used to supply the Nicaraguan contras trying battling the communists Sandinistas

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Jack Kemp

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Republican nominee claimed the right to Reagan’s a mantle

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Michael Dukakis

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Democratic nominee who was the governor of Massachusetts

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Dan Quayle

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George WH bush is Vice President

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Americans with Disabilities Act

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Prohibited job discrimination based on his abilities and also improved accommodations for them

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Gulf War

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triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990.

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Operation Desert Shield

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Deployed Allied forces in Saudi Arabia to forestall further Iraqi aggression

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Operation Desert Storm

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Missile military assault on Iraqis military targets

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Ross Perot

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Complicated the 1992 election bugging a third-party

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“New Democrat”

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hBill Clinton he claimed that he would not follow a pattern of promoting the government and wood and the policies of high taxes and free spending that the Democrats had followed in the past

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“Whitewater” scandal

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Rumors that surface that Clinton had un ethnically use his influence for private benefit

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Family and Medical Leave Act

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Required businesses to give employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for newborn children and seriously ill family members

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Brady Bill

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h required a background check and a five day waiting period of the purchaser of a gun

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National Voter Registration Act

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Required states to allow voters to register when they applied for a or renewed their license

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NAFTA

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North Atlantic Treaty free act free trade with Mexico

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Wife to Bill Clinton and pushed for universal healthcare

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“talk radio”

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Became a more popular for politicians and people were able to call and ask questions

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Christian Coalition

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Many good ethical people united on moral issues such as abortion and homosexuality

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“Contract with America”

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Republicans laid out 10 I’ll be the bills that they promised to bring up for a vote if they were elected in the first hundred days in office

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Line-item veto

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Lowering the president to eliminate spending items in the federal budget

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Defense of Marriage Act

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Security federal benefits such as health insurance for spouses and traditional marriage only no homosexual unions

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Welfare Reform Act of 1996

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Rolled back federal guarantees for the poor

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“gay rights” movement

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The spread of making homosexuality public

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Bob Doyle

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In the election of 1996 the Republicans nominated Senate majority leader of Kansas

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Internet

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started becoming more popular and grew to what it is today

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Dayton Accords

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fashioned Bosnia into a confederation in which the serbs, croats and muslims shared power

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Kosovo

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scene of ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia

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Lewinsky scandal

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President Clinton had a affair with someone, lied about it, and tried to cover it up

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Al Gore

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ran against Bush in 200. very close call, and had much controversy

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Richard (Dick) Cheney

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gulf war vet. congressmen on Wyoming

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Joseph Lieberman

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first jew to ever run on a major ticket

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September 11th 2001

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world trade centers were hit

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Correctly list the 19th-44th US Presidents

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  1. Rutherford B. Hayes
  2. James A Garfield
  3. chester a arthur
  4. Grover Cleveland
  5. Benjamin Harrison
  6. Grover Cleveland
  7. William McKinley
  8. theodore roosevelt
  9. William Taft
  10. Woodrow Wilson
  11. Warren Harding
  12. Calvin Coolidge
  13. Herbert Hoover
  14. Franklin Roosevelt
  15. Harry truman
  16. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Lyndon B. Johnson
  19. Richard Nixon
  20. Gerald Ford
  21. Jimmy Carter
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. George H.W. Bush
  24. BIll Clinton
  25. George Bush
  26. Barack Obama
  27. Hannah Delbury
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Identify the 2 simple points of the Reagan Revolution and then using examples describe how Reagan accomplished these while in office.

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America must be strong and America must be free. Lowering taxes that hindered growth and opportunity. Also strengthen and restore America’s moral fiber by curbing government into the home, church, and the school

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Define the Reagan Doctrine and give at least two examples of this doctrine in action during his time in office

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Reagan’s foreign-policy in keeping with America’s test stance towards the Soviets it pledged Americas support in the surgeon group styling communist governments in the third world it’s sparked battles on the homefront as Connor struggle with the White House over the new directions inform policy making

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Define perestroika and glasnost. Then discuss their impact on the USSR and how they helped start the movements to end the Cold War.

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Perestroika turned out to be a series of half measures that raise Soviet expectations rather than the standard of living
Glasnost The taste of freedom only awake and thirst for more Gorbachev and the red armory responded to the stirrings of independence and nationalism with teargas and bullets

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