Chapter 25- Conservative Revolution

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Public square in Beijing, China that was home to democratic demonstrations

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Tiananmen

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John Hinckley Jr. tried to blank Reagan in March 1981

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Assassinate

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Nickname for brave Chinese man who stood as symbol of those standing against communist oppression

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Tank man

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New disease targeting the immune system that became an epidemic in the 1980s

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AIDS

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Nickname for Reagan’s economic politics that bears his name

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Reaganomics

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Soviet term for introducing early free market reforms into the communist system

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Perestroika

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Leader of the USSR who helped reform and eventually dissolve the USSR

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Gorbachev

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Reagan cut taxes to help spur economic growth, based largely on this economist’s curve

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Laffer

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General Noriega of blank was arrested and charged with drug trafficking by the U.S

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Panama

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Soviet term for “openness”

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Glasnost

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Scandal involving U.S. secretly supplying weapons to Iran and funneling some profits to the Contras in Nicaragua

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Iran Contra scandal

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This Cold War symbol was torn down in 1989

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Berlin Wall

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Ethnic rivalries in this country would lead to long- term conflict and war

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Yugoslavia

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Alliance of many opposed to growth of big government and the social changes of the 1960s/1970s

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Conservative coalition

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Democratic presidential candidate in 1988

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Dukakis

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Elected president in 1992

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Clinton

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Term for Christians working to restore traditional values in America through the political process

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Moral majority

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Russian president who officially declared the Cold War over with president bush

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Yeltsin

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Very quick, successful, and popular war under president George H.W. Bush

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Persian gulf war

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Winner in 1988 election

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Bush

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African- American male beaten by white police officers; video will trigger 1992 riots in Los Angeles

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Rodney king

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Nancy Reagan launched a “war on blank” with the slogan “Just say no”

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Drugs

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Popular nickname for Reagan’s proposed “Strategic Defense Initiative”

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Star Wars

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First women VP candidate in 1984

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Geraldine Ferraro

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Other term for government programs like social security and Medicare

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Entitlement

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NASA space shuttle which technically exploded seconds into flight in 1986

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Challenger

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Civil war between contras and Sandinistas U.S. became involved in

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Nicaragua

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Neclear Treaty designed to drastically cut nuclear arsenals

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START II

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First women on the Supreme Court

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Sandra Day O’Connor