Apush Chapter 40 Terms Answers – Flashcards
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Neoconservatives
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Influential group of intellectuals led by Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz who provided key ideas for the "Reagan Revolution"
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Proposition 13
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California ballot initaitive of 1978 that set the stage for the "tax revolt" that Reagan rode to victory in 1980
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Supply-Side Economics
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The economic theory of "Reagonomics" that emphasized cutting taxes and government spending in order to stimulate investment, productivity, and economic growth by private enterprise.
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Yuppies
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Term for "young urban professionals" of the 1980s who flaunted their wealth through conspicuous consumer spending
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Boll Weevils
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Conservative southern Democrats who supported Reagan's economic policies in Congress
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Solidarity
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Polish labor union crushed by the communist-imposed martial-law regime in 1983
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Sandinistas
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The leftist revolutionary rulers o f Nicaragua, strongly opposed by the Reagan administration
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Star Wars
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Popular name for Reagan's proposed space-based nuclear defense system, officially called the Strategic Defense Initiative
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Berlin Wall
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Physical symbol of the Cold War and divided Europe that came down in 1989
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Operation Desert Storm
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Code name for the military operation of the "hunder hour war" that drove Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait
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Jimmy Carter
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Well-meaning president who was swamped by the 1980 Reagan landslide but later won the Nobel Prize
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Edward Kennedy
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Liberal Democratic senator whose opposition to Carter helped divide the Democrats in 1980
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Ronald Reagan
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Political darling of Republican conservatives whose won landslide election victories in 1980 and 1984
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Sandinistas
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Ruling leftist party of Nicaragua fiercely opposed by the Reagan administration
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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Brilliant legal scholar appointed Reagan as the first woman justice on the Supreme Court
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet leader whose summit meetings with Reagan achieved an arms-control breakthrough in 1987
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George Bush, Sr.
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Long-time Republican political figure who defeated Dukakis for the presidency in 1988
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Contras
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Anti-communist Nicaraguan rebels strongly backed by the Reagan administration
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Saddam Hussein
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Iraqi dictator defeated by the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf War
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Corazon Aquino
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Filipino leader who ousted dictator Marcos withe American backing in 1986 revolt
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Walter Mondale
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Jimmy Carter's vice president who lost badly to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election
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Geraldine Ferraro
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First woman to be nominated to a major party ticket as Democratic vice president candidate in 1984
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Jerry Falwell
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Prominent evangelical minister, leader of the Moral Majority
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Norman Schwartzkopf
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Successful commander of American forces in the First Persian Gulf War
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Clarence Thomas
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Controversial Supreme Court Justice who narrowly won confirmation despite charges of sexual harassment
