| A | B |
|---|
| entitlement program | Program that guarantees benefits to particular people |
| New Right | Alliance of conservative groups to support conservative ideas |
| affirmative action | Programs that required special consideration for racial and ethnic minorities and women |
| reverse discrimination | Discrimination against whites to make up for past discrimination against others |
| conservative coalition | Alliance of business interests, religious people, and dissatisfied middle-class voters to support conservative candidates |
| Moral Majority | Organization formed to fight for traditional values |
| Ronald Reagan | 40th president |
| Reaganomics | Reagan's economic policies |
| supply-side economics | Economic theory that tax cuts will increase jobs and government revenues |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | Proposed system to defend the US against missile attacks |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First woman Supreme Court justice |
| deregulation | The cutting back of federal regulation of industry |
| Environmental Protection Agency | Agency established in 1970 to fight pollution and conserve natural resources |
| Geraldine Ferraro | Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 |
| George H.W. Bush | Reagan's vice president elected president in 1988 |
| AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) | Fatal disease with no known cure, that became a US and world-wide epidemic |
| pay equity | Situation in which women and men receive equal pay for equal work |
| L. Douglas Wilder | Nation's first African-American governor (Va.) |
| Jesse Jackson | Civil rights leader and presidential candidate |
| Lauro Cavasos | Appointed secretary of education by President Reagan |
| Dr. Antonia Coello Novello | Named Surgeon General by President Bush |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Last leader of the Soviet Union |
| glasnost | Gorbachev's policy of openness in discussing problems in the Soviet Union |
| INF Treaty | Treaty to reduce nuclear weapons |
| Tiananmen Square | Place in Beijing where Chinese protesters demonstrated against the Communist government |
| Sandinistas | Communist rebel group that took power in Nicaragua |
| Contras | Rebel forces supported by Ronald Reagan to overthrow the Sandinistas |
| Operation Desert Storm | The 1991 US attack on Iraq to force the Iraqis out of Kuwait |
