Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (1983), also known as "Star Wars," called for a land- or space-based shield against a nuclear attack. Although SDI was criticized as unfeasible and in violation of the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Congress approved billions of dollars for development.
  • supply-side economics
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
  • Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
  • Operation Desert Storm
a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society
  • perestroika
  • boll weevils
  • contras
  • glasnost
The federal economic polices of the Reagan administration, elected inThese policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth.
  • supply-side economics
  • Reaganomics
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Black Monday
political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying. Formed by Jerry Falwell. Organization made up of conservative Christian political action committees which campaigned on issues its personnel believed were important to maintaining its Christian conception of moral law. This group pressured for legislation that would ban abortion and ban the states' acceptance of homosexuality.
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
  • Moral Majority
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  • Sandinistas
Policy of openness initiated by Gorbachev in the 1980s that provided increased opportunities for freedom of speech, association and the press in the Soviet Union.
  • contras
  • boll weevils
  • perestroika
  • glasnost
Americans with Disabilities Act—forbids discrimination on the basis of a physical or mental disability if the individual can perform "essential function" of the job.
  • Moral Majority
  • Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
October 19,Date of the largest single-day decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average until SeptemberThe downturn indicated instability in the booming business culture of the 1980s but did not lead to a serious economic recession. (1045)
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Reaganomics
  • supply-side economics
  • Black Monday
Term for conservative southern Democrats who voted increasingly for Republican issues during the Carter and Reagan administrations.
  • perestroika
  • boll weevils
  • glasnost
  • contras
an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
  • supply-side economics
Military operations that started on January 16, 1991, with a bombing campaign, followed by a ground invasion of February 23 and 24,The ground war lasted 100 hours and resulted in a spectacularly one-sided military victory for the Coalition.
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
  • Black Monday
  • supply-side economics
  • Operation Desert Storm
An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues for the government.
  • supply-side economics
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
  • Black Monday
President Reagan authorized the off-the-books sale of stolen weapons from the Pentagon to Iran in order to fund the Nicaraguan Contras; Congress had forbidden him to use government funds to support the Contras; helped keep Iraq from winning the Iraq-Iran War (did not want a Middle Eastern superpower); very illegal (Iran was considered a terrorist state) and almost caused Reagan to be impeached.
  • Iran-Contra affair
  • Sandinistas
  • Proposition 13
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
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