________- Lower taxes on wealthy → "Trickle down "to lower classes.
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1982
"Just Say No" (anti-drug campaign)
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Supply-side economics
Lower taxes on wealthy → "Trickle down" to lower classes
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1976
Microsoft
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1990s
Antitrust cases
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Microsoft
Not broken up
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1977
Apple Computers, Inc
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"Reagan Revolution"
Break up USSR + fed
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New Federalism
States manage fed
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1988
Family Welfare Reform Act (restructured welfare system)
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1986
Target of US bombing raid
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Daniel Ortega
Leader of Sandinistas
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1982
US Marines sent to Lebanon
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1983
Terrorist bombs destroyed US Embassy + Marines barracks
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1983
US military invaded → Protect US citizens
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Domestic reforms
Glasnost + perestroika
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Election of 1984
Ran against Reagan
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1980s
Conservative resurgence + Ronald Reagan
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Middle East
Terrorist attacks on Americans
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Conservative Movement
A term used by political analysts to describe conservatives in the United States since the mid-20th century and the New Right
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National Review Magazine
An American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs
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Ronald Reagan
An American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism
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Nancy Reagan
An American film actress and First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989
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John Hinckley
An American man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981
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Laffer Curve
A graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income; income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines
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Silicon Valley
A region in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation
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Bill Gates
An American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft
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Steve Jobs
An American entrepreneur, industrial designer, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor who co-founded Apple
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Big Government
The federal government usurping the role of state and local governments
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Muammar al Quaddafi
A Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
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Contras
Various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua
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Beirut Bombing
Two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War
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Invasion of Grenada
The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada
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Mutually Assured Destruction
The concept that two superpowers are capable of annihilating each other with nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are attacked first
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Strategic Defense Initiative
A proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons
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Mikhail Gorbachev
A Russian and former Soviet politician who was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union
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Walter Mondale
An American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter
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Iran-Contra Scandal
A secret U.S. arms deal that traded missiles and other arms to free some Americans held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon, but also used funds from the arms deal to support armed conflict in Nicaragua
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Oliver North
Came forward during the Iran-Contra Scandal to acknowledge that he had diverted the missing funds to the Contras in Nicaragua, who used them to acquire weapons
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