________ 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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