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| a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying |
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| the founder of the Moral Majority |
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Reagon's economics, also called supply-side economics
- Reduce Growth of Government spending.
- Reduce Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax.
- Reduce Government regulation.
- Control the money supply to reduce inflation.
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| Reagon's description of the Soviet Union |
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| Strategic Defense Initative |
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| also known as Star Wars, Reagon's ideas which used ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles |
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| Reagon defeats Walter Mondale |
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| Walter Mondale's VP canidate, first woman on a major presidential election |
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| communist countries boycott this in response to America boycotting the Moscow Olympics |
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| acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system, was found mostly in gay men and was spreading, people found treatment for this to be controversial |
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| first female supreme court justice |
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| NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members |
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| CIA trained Nicaraguan guerillas trying to rebel against their communist gov, officials took profits from secret army sales to Iran and sent profits to these guerillas, arm sales encourage the release of American Hostages held in Lebanon |
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| leader of the Soviet union in 1985 |
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| Russian meaning "political openess," policy to reform the ailing Soviet system |
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| Russian for "restructing," an economic policy to allow limited free enterprise |
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| Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces, an aggreement signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachevf that provided for the destruction of about 2,500 American and Soviet missiles in Europe |
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