Chapter 40 - The Resurgence of Conservatism

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Reagan

________ sought to use Supreme court to fight affirmative action and abortion.

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Cold War

________ was intensified by end of 1983 with all arms- control negotiations being broken.

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Clinton

________ called for accepting homosexuals in armed forces.

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Hillary Clinton

________ was given the job of revamping the U.S.s health adn medical care system.

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Radical Muslim group

Bombed the World Trade Center in New York, on February 26, 1993, killing 6 people

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Newt Gingrich

Led Republicans on an attack of Clintons liberal failures in 1994

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USSR

________ declared martial law in Poland in 1981.

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Mexico

Created a free- trade zone between ________, Canada, and the United States while eliminating tariffs between the countries.

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Gorbachev

Became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985

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Israel

Invaded Lebanon in June of 1982

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Saddam Hussein

Invaded Kuwait, seeking oil on August 2, 1990

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Bush

Signed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990

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George H W Bush

Republicans nominated ________ in the election of 1988.

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Roe v Wade

In ________ the court prohibited states from making laws that interfered with a womans right to an abortion in the early months of pregnancy.

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Affirmative action

Consisted of of the court making it more difficult to prove that an employer practiced racial discrimination in hiring through two cases in 1989

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2004

Republicans are- nominated Bush in the election of ________ while the Democrats nominated John F. Kerry.

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Falwell

Preached against sexual permissiveness, abortion, feminism, and the sperad of gay rights

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overall strengthening of Social Security

Gore supported smaller tax cuts and ________.

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Bush

Supported returning the federal budget surplus back to the people in the form of tax cuts and giving money to private institutions that helped the poverty stricken

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centrality of family

Regan called for the reassertion of individualistic traditional values and the ________.

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Reagan

________ announced missile- defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative (called Star Wars)

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Clinton

________ negotiated a deal to receive immunity from possible legal action over the Lewinsky scandal, just before leaving office.

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Reagan

________ was shot on March 6, 1981 with him recovering and returning back to work 12 days later.

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Clinton

Led the reconciliation meeting between Israels Rabin and Palestinian Arafat at the White House

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Reagan

Supported "supply- side "economics and believed that they would stimulate new investment, boost productivity, promote dramatic economic growth, and reduce the federal deficit

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Clinton

________ committed American troops to NATO to keep peace in former Yugoslavia.

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Reagan

Sent "military advisors" to El Salvador in 1979 to support the pro- American government

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Reagan

________ called for substantial tax cuts.

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Reagan

________ won election of 1984.

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Reagan

________ administration secretly sold arms to Iran to circumvent Congresss ban on sending arms to Nicaraguan rebels.

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Reagan

Was a neoconservative in opposition of a big government

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