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Democratic government under Duarte that got supplies from the US

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El Salvador

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Caribbean nation liberated from a communist government by US forces

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Grenada

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Anti communist forces under savimbi that got supplies from the Us

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Angola

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Nation where soviet forces fought the mujahideen, and the mujahideen resisted soviet occupation for ten years

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Afghanistan

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Nation where terrorists attacked the US marine barracks

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Lebanon

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Country that the US bombed in response to terrorist attacks

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Libya

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Defeated in a hundred hour ground war

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Iraq

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Only Vice President to resign for criminal reasons

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Spiro Agnew

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Only president to resign

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Nixon

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Only unelected President

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Gerald Ford

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Ineffective people’s president

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Jimmy carter

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Pro west shah of Iran

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Mohammad reza Pahlavi

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Fanatical Islamist extremist

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Ayatollah khomeini

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Charismatic leader of the religious right

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Pat Robertson

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Controversial baptist leader of the religious right

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Jerry falwell

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Winner of the 1980 presidential election , republican president who revived patriotism

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Ronal Reagan

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Centerpiece of reagonomics

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Economic recovery tax act

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US support of anti communist insurgents

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Reagan doctrine

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Reduction in the size of long range nuclear weapons arsenals

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START

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Elimination of medium range nuclear weapons

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INF treaty

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space based defense shield

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SDI

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First opposed and then signed by bush

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American with disabilities act

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Originally drafted by James Madison

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Twenty seventh amendment

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Essentially a clandestine guns for hostages deal

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Iran contra affair

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“Openness” in soviet society
Glasnost
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Cause of Nixon’s resignation
Watergate affair
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Cause of President fords unpopularity
Nixon pardon
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OPECS attempt to hurt the US economy
Oil embargo
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Attack on abortion laws
Roe v wade
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Support for feminism
Equal rights amendment
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Agreement between Israel and Egypt
Camp David accords
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Failed agreement between the US and the Soviet Union
SALt 2 treaty
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Affected United States territory in Central America
Panama Canal treaty
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Cause of President Carter’s unpopularity
Iranian hostage crisis
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Liberal democrat who lost by a landslide in the 1984 presidential election
Walter mandate
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Soviet leader who introduces glasnost
Mikhail gorbachev
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Republican Vice President candidate in the election of 1988
Dan Quayle
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Hand picked successor of Reagan
George bush
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Militaristic iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein
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Allied commander in the gulf war
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Technical term for Reagan’s economic philosophy
Supply side economics
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Anti Sandinista guerrilas in Nicaragua
Contras
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Walter Mondales vice presidential running mate
Geraldine ferraro
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The Russian term for restructuring
Perestroika
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The project SDI was also known as
Star Wars
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Label bill Clinton coined himself in the 1992 campaign by backing away from big government high taxes and free spending
New Democrat
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Presidents fords main weapon in his standoff with congress
Veto
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Combination of high energy prices and oil shortages in the 1970s
Energy crisis
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Results when a nation imports more than it exports
Trade deficit
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Faction driven by social and moral issues to join the traditional conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s
New right
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What was the greatest obstacle to fords exercising effective leadership
Congress
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What was the main reason for the Arab oil embargo on the US
US supporting Israel in the war
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What is carters greatest failure in foreign affairs, and his greatest success?
Iranian hostage crisis , camp David accords
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In what part of government spending did raegan ask for continuous increases
Military
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Why the US supplied arms to Iran
To encourage moderate successor to the ayatolla To free hostages Provide financial support of the contras
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First female Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day o Connor
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How George bush offended many voters that it costed him the 1992 election
Broke his pledge not to raise taxes
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This happens when simultaneous occurrence high inflation and high unemployment
Stagflation

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