| A | B |
|---|
| entitlement program | federal progam guaranteed to provide benefits to particular groups |
| New Right | right wing grass roots groups that organized to promote single issues that reflected their key interests |
| affirmitive action | required employers to give special consideration to minority groups that had been the victims of discrimination |
| reverse discrimination | favoring a minority group over another group on the basis of race or gender |
| conservative coalition | alliance of business leaders , middle class voters and fundamentalist Christians |
| Moral Majority | political organization made up of fundamentalist and evangelical Christians |
| Ronald Reagan | elected president in 1980 |
| Reaganomics | 1)budget cuts 2) tax cuts 3) increased defense spending |
| supply-side economics | theory that says that tax cuts would increas money for investment and saving, thus stimulating the economy |
| Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) | system to shoot down incoming ICBMs |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | first woman to serve on the Supreme Court |
| deregulation | cutting back of federal regulation on industry |
| Environmental Protection Agency | main federal agency responsible for enforcing anti-pollution law |
| Geraldine Ferraro | running mate of Walter Mondale in 1984 |
| Walter Mondale | President Carter's vice president and Democratic candidate for President in 1984 |
| George Bush Sr. | Ronald Reagan's vice president won the presidency in 1988 |
| Michael Dukakis | ran for president in 1988 as a Democrat |
| AIDS | major health issue concerning Americans in the 1980s |
| pay equity | change in the traditional pay scale; an attempt to get better pay for women in the workplace |
| L. Douglas Wilder | first African American governor in the US, governor of Virginia |
| Jesse Jackson | ran for president in 1984 and 1988 |
| Lauro Cavazos | latino Secretary of Education, appointed by Ronald Reagan |
| Antonia Coello Novello | Latino surgeon general appointed by George Bush senior |
| Ecotopia | the American West |
| Sunbelt | the South and Southwest regions of the US |
| Rustbelt | Northeast and North Central regions of the US |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | leader who tried to reform Communism in the USSR |
| glasnost | Gorbachev's policy of openness |
| perestroika | Gorbachev's policy of restructuring Soviet society |
| INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty) | treaty that eliminated two classes of nuclear weapons |
| Tiananmen Square | site of large pro democracy demonstrations in Bejing, China |
| Li Peng | Chinese military leader who ordered the Chinese military to crush the Tiananmen Square protests |
| Sandanistas | Communist Nicaraguan rebels who took overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1979 |
| Contras | anti-communist rebels funded by the CIA in Nicaragua |
| Grenada | the US military removed a pro Communist government here in 1983 |
| Panama | dictator Manuel noriega was removed by US forces in 1989 |
| Operation Desert Storm | military operation to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991 |
