| A | B |
|---|
| Pentecostal | form of Protestant religion |
| sitcoms | form of t.v. programs that often addressed topical issues |
| supply-side economics | argument that tax cuts would revitalize the economy and benefits would "trickle down" to all the classes |
| Gramm-Rudman Act | established a set of steadily increasing limits on federal spending |
| Contadora Group | established 1983 to reduce tensions and conflicts in Central America |
| INF Treaty | treaty between the U.S.A. and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics on the elimination of their Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Nuclear Missiles |
| Moral Majority | organization to attract campaign contributions and examine candidates around the country to issues important to Christian America |
| tight money | Reagan's plan to decrease domestic spending to slow down inflation |
| nuclear winter | created by debris in the atmosphere after nuclear exchange |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | a space-based defensive missle system |
| Iran-Contra connection | scandal that involved the selling of arms to the contras and to Iran |
| The Rev. Jerry Falwell | religious leader who made first step from religious to political activism |
| Archie Bunker | TV character whose prejudices were supposed to be comedic, but many complained that the show legitimized these attitudes |
| Caspar Weinberger | he was kept uninformed of the Iran-Contra activities because his opposition to the idea was known |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | first female Supreme Court Justice |
| Beirut, Lebanon | Reagan sent American Marines to this city to bring stability to a nation torn by civil war |
| Robert McFarlane | Reagan's national security advisor who suggested selling arm to Iranians in return for hostages |
| John Poindexter | McFarlane's succesor who had president sign a "finding" mission without informing anyone else |
| Edwin Meese | Reagan's attorney general who moved so slowly to investigate the Iran-Contra scandal that North had time to shred crucial documents |
| Father Robert Drinan | a former member of the U.S. Congress and a writer on legal ethics and champion of indviduals rights |
| James Watt | Secretary of the Interior who came under fire for his lack of support for environmental movement |
| Geraldine Ferraro | first female candidate for vice-presidency |
| William Rehnquist | Chief Justice who oversaw the shift of the court to a more conservative stance on individual rights and governmental intervention |
| Edward Boland | congressman who sponsored an amendment explicitly forbidding the CIA or any other intelligence agency from spending money to support Nicaraguan Contras |
| Oliver North | man who engineered the "arms for hostages" swap |
| Reykjavik | site of summit between Reagan and Gorbachev that further cemented the improvement in American Soviet relations |
| Michael Dukakis | Democratic challenger to Bush in the 1988 election |
