| A | B |
| Supply Side | Another name for Reaganomics |
| William Buckley | Editor of the National Review |
| Great Communicator | Ronald Reagan |
| Progressivism | Reform Movement |
| Barry Goldwater | Conservative candidate for President in 1964 |
| New Right | Alliance of conservative groups |
| Entitlement Programs | Guarantee benefits to certain groups |
| Conservative Coaliton | intellectuals, business leaders, unhappy Democrats, and religious fundamentalists |
| Jimmy Carter | Democratic Candidate 1980 |
| Walter Mondale | Vice President |
| Iran | Country that took Americans hostage |
| Bakke | Victim of reverse discrimination |
| Moral Majority | Religious concervatives |
| SDI | Star Wars |
| William Rehnquist | Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
| Clarence Thomas | Justice accused by Anita Hill |
| Infrastructure | Term for transportation, bridges, power lines etc. |
| Anne Burford | EPA |
| Charles Keating | Savings and Loan Scandal |
| Geraldine Ferraro | V.P Candidate |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First female on the Supreme Court |
| Roe v Wade | Abortions are legal |
| Nancy Reagan | "Just say no" |
| A Nation At Risk | Stated that the U.S. educational system was in trouble |
| AFDC | Welfare - aid to children |
| EPA | Environment |
| ERA | Failed amendment |
| Jesse Jackson | Ran for President in 1984 and 1988 |
| Affirmative Action | Designed to correct the affects of discrimination in the past |
| Gorbachev | Last leader of the Soviet Union |
| Glasnost | Openness |
| CIS | New structure for the former USSR |
| INF | Arms treaty |
| Perestroika | economic restructuring |
| Baltic States | Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia |
| Solidarity | Union in Poland |
| Tiananmen Square | Massacre of people who wanted democracy |
| Nicaragua | Reagan called leaders in the country Communists |
| Contras | They fought against the Sandinistas |
| Grenada | U.S. invaded here |
| Noriega | Leader of Panama |
| Panama | U.S. invaded here to remove the leader |
| Oliver North | Involved in scandal with Iran and the Contras |
| Operation Desert Storm | Name for war between the U.S. and Iraq |
| Schwarzkopf | Major General in Persian Gulf War |
| Sandinistas | Major political party in Nicaragua |