Chapter 29: The Triumph of the Right

election of Jimmy Carter

election of Jimmy Carter

The ________ in 1976 brought a Democrat to the White House for the first time since 1969.

Hyde Amendment

The 1976 ________ prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for abortions /

conservative movement

The ________ gained ground on gender and sexual politics, but it captured the entire battlefield on American foreign policy in the 1980s.

Reagan

________ won the election with 51 percent of the popular vote to Carters 41 percent.

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In 1982, the House voted ________ to approve the Boland Amendment, which barred the United States from supplying funds to the contras, a right- wing insurgency fighting the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Race

________ sat just below the surface of the IRS fight, since many of the schools had been founded to circumvent court- ordered desegregation.

liberal Democrats

In 1977 and 1978, ________ rallied behind the Humphrey- Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act, which promised to end unemployment through extensive government planning.

Tax cuts

________, deregulating business industries, balancing the federal budget, and raising interest rates.

Jerry Falwell

In 1979 ________ (a Baptist minister and religious broadcaster from Lynchburg, Virginia) founded the Moral Majority, an explicitly political organization dedicated to advancing a "pro- life, pro- family, pro- morality, and pro- American "agenda.

Cinematic escapism

________ replaced the social films of the 1970s.

Supreme Court

In the early 1960s, ________ decisions prohibiting teacher- led prayer (Engel v. Vitale) and Bible reading in public schools (Abington v. Schempp) led some on the right to conclude that a liberal judicial system threatened Christian values.

Religious conservatives

________ took advantage of the Republican takeover of the White House and Senate in 1980 to push for new restrictions on abortion- with limited success.

Iraq

When ________ invaded Iran in 1980, the United States supplied Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with military intelligence and business credits (even after it became clear that Iraqi forces were using chemical weapons)

Reagan Revolution

The ________ marked the culmination of a long process of political mobilization on the American right.

Anaheim

In 1968 and 1969 a group of newly politicized mothers in ________, California, led a sustained protest against sex education in public schools.

celebration of sex

The countercultures ________ and drugs, along with relaxed obscenity and pornography laws, intensified the conviction that "permissive "liberalism encouraged immorality in private life.

AIDS Memorial Quilt

The ________, a commemorative project begun in 1985, sought to humanize AIDS victims.

Grenada

________ was the only time Reagan deployed the American military in Latin America, but the United States also influenced the region by supporting right- wing, anticommunist movements there.

AIDS

When ________ appeared in the early 1980s, most of its victims were gay men.

Supply side economics

________ held that lower personal and corporate tax rates would encourage greater private investment and production.

1965 Voting Rights Act

When the ________ came up for renewal during Reagans first term, the Justice Department pushed the president to oppose any extension.

Beirut

On October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber killed 241 Marines stationed in ________.

Ronald Reagans America

________ presented African Americans with a series of contradictions.

Reagan administration

The ________ took a more cautious approach in the Middle East, where its policy was determined by a mix of anticommunism and hostility toward the Islamic government of Iran.

Gay Mens Health Crisis

The ________ demanded a more proactive response to the epidemic.

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The ________ and the confinement of 52 American hostages in Iran had discredited Carters foreign policy in the eyes of many Americans.

Reagan

________ ran as a staunch fiscal conservative and a Cold War hawk, vowing to reduce government spending and shrink the federal bureaucracy.

Though the Iran-Contra scandal tarnished the Reagan administrations image, it did not derail Reagans most significant achievement

easing tensions with the Soviet Union

Moral Majority

The _______________ was an explicitly political organization dedicated to advancing a “pro-life, pro-family, pro-morality, and pro-American” agenda

Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act

The ______________________ promised to end unemployment through extensive government planning

Supply-side economics

_____________ was the theory that lower personal and corporate tax rates would encourage greater private investment and production

Immigration Reform and Control Act

The ___________________ was supposed to deal with the millions of undocumented immigrants already in the United States and stop future unsanctioned migration

AIDS

______ is a serious disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles

Reagan Doctrine

The ________________________ declared that the United States would supply aid to anticommunist forces everywhere in the world

Operation Urgent Fury

In ______________________ the US Marines overthrew the leftist government in Grenada after less than a week of fighting

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI),

The ____________________ was a space-based defense system that could shoot down incoming Soviet missiles

Iran-Contra scandal

The _________________ was the result of the Reagan administration funding the contra even though they were not supposed to

Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987

The ______________________ committed both the US and the USSR to a sharp reduction in their nuclear arsenal