Chapter 37 - Conservative Resurgence

Daniel Ortega

________- Leader of Sandinistas.

Supply side economics

________- Lower taxes on wealthy → "Trickle down "to lower classes.

1982

"Just Say No" (anti-drug campaign)

Supply-side economics

Lower taxes on wealthy → "Trickle down" to lower classes

1976

Microsoft

1990s

Antitrust cases

Microsoft

Not broken up

1977

Apple Computers, Inc

"Reagan Revolution"

Break up USSR + fed

New Federalism

States manage fed

1988

Family Welfare Reform Act (restructured welfare system)

1986 

Target of US bombing raid

Daniel Ortega

Leader of Sandinistas

1982

US Marines sent to Lebanon

1983

Terrorist bombs destroyed US Embassy + Marines barracks

1983

US military invaded → Protect US citizens

Domestic reforms

Glasnost + perestroika

Election of 1984

Ran against Reagan

1980s

Conservative resurgence + Ronald Reagan

Middle East

Terrorist attacks on Americans

Conservative Movement

A term used by political analysts to describe conservatives in the United States since the mid-20th century and the New Right

National Review Magazine

An American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs

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

Nancy Reagan

An American film actress and First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989

John Hinckley

An American man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981

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

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

Bill Gates

An American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft

Steve Jobs

An American entrepreneur, industrial designer, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor who co-founded Apple

Big Government

The federal government usurping the role of state and local governments

Muammar al Quaddafi

A Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist

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

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

Invasion of Grenada

The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada

Mutually Assured Destruction

The concept that two superpowers are capable of annihilating each other with nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are attacked first

Strategic Defense Initiative

A proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons

Mikhail Gorbachev

A Russian and former Soviet politician who was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union

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

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

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