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Public square in Beijing, China that was home to democratic demonstrations |
Tiananmen |
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John Hinckley Jr. tried to blank Reagan in March 1981 |
Assassinate |
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Nickname for brave Chinese man who stood as symbol of those standing against communist oppression |
Tank man |
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New disease targeting the immune system that became an epidemic in the 1980s |
AIDS |
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Nickname for Reagan’s economic politics that bears his name |
Reaganomics |
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Soviet term for introducing early free market reforms into the communist system |
Perestroika |
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Leader of the USSR who helped reform and eventually dissolve the USSR |
Gorbachev |
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Reagan cut taxes to help spur economic growth, based largely on this economist’s curve |
Laffer |
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General Noriega of blank was arrested and charged with drug trafficking by the U.S |
Panama |
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Soviet term for “openness” |
Glasnost |
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Scandal involving U.S. secretly supplying weapons to Iran and funneling some profits to the Contras in Nicaragua |
Iran Contra scandal |
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This Cold War symbol was torn down in 1989 |
Berlin Wall |
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Ethnic rivalries in this country would lead to long- term conflict and war |
Yugoslavia |
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Alliance of many opposed to growth of big government and the social changes of the 1960s/1970s |
Conservative coalition |
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Democratic presidential candidate in 1988 |
Dukakis |
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Elected president in 1992 |
Clinton |
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Term for Christians working to restore traditional values in America through the political process |
Moral majority |
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Russian president who officially declared the Cold War over with president bush |
Yeltsin |
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Very quick, successful, and popular war under president George H.W. Bush |
Persian gulf war |
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Winner in 1988 election |
Bush |
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African- American male beaten by white police officers; video will trigger 1992 riots in Los Angeles |
Rodney king |
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Nancy Reagan launched a “war on blank” with the slogan “Just say no” |
Drugs |
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Popular nickname for Reagan’s proposed “Strategic Defense Initiative” |
Star Wars |
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First women VP candidate in 1984 |
Geraldine Ferraro |
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Other term for government programs like social security and Medicare |
Entitlement |
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NASA space shuttle which technically exploded seconds into flight in 1986 |
Challenger |
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Civil war between contras and Sandinistas U.S. became involved in |
Nicaragua |
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Neclear Treaty designed to drastically cut nuclear arsenals |
START II |
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First women on the Supreme Court |
Sandra Day O’Connor |