Chapter 40 - The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992 Flashcards
New Right
Outspoken conservative movement of the 1980s that emphaszed such “social issues” as opposition to abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, pornography, homosexuality, and affirmative action
Moral Majority
Political action committee founded by evangelical Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1979 to promote traditional Christian values and oppose feminism, abortion, and gay rights. The group was a major linchpin in the resurgent religious right of the 1980s.
neoconservatives
A group that championed free-market capitalism liberated from government restraints, anti-soviet positions in foreign policy, questioned liberal welfare programs, and called for the reassertion of traditional values of individualism and the centrality of the family
“ABC” movement
a movement to nominate anybody but Carter in the 1980 elections
Prop. 13
Capped the state’s real estate tax at 1% of assessed value; radically reduced average property tax levels
“welfare state”
a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
“boll weevils”
Conservative southern Demos. Who voted for Repub. issues
recession of 1982
end the double-digit inflation – dropping it to less than 4 percent. The economy made a comeback under Reaganomics + lowering of interest rates although the recovery widened the income gap between rich and poor.
supply-side economics
Declared that govt policy should aim to increase the supple of goods and services
“yuppies”
Young urban professionals
Star Wars/SDI
Reagan’s proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (1983), also known as “Star Wars,” called for a land- or space-based shield against a nuclear attack. Although SDI was criticized as unfeasible and in violation of the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Congress approved billions of dollars for development.
arms race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine (a U.S. foreign policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism) was announced, and 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed. Nothing much happened, was mostly a stalemate.
“Solidarity”
unity (as of a group or class) that produces or is based on community of interests, objectives, and standards
Olympic boycott
1980 Summer Olympic boycott was initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan
West Bank
The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of territory now under Israeli control.
Israel and Lebanon
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, widely referred as the South Lebanon conflict, describes a series of related military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various non-state militias acting from within Lebanon.
“Teflon president”
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Sandinistas
Communist Nicaraguan group that overthrew President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending 46 years of dictatorship by the Somoza family.
