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| 12751131299 | Perestroika | in the former Soviet Union the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev | 0 | |
| 12751131300 | Glasnost | in the former Soviet Union, the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985. | 1 | |
| 12751131301 | rainbow coalition | a political alliance of differing groups, typically one comprising minority peoples and other disadvantaged groups. | 2 | |
| 12751131302 | Reaganomics | the economic policies of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity. | 3 | |
| 12751131303 | supply side economics | a macroeconomic theory arguing that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation, by which it is directly opposed to demand-side economics | 4 | |
| 12751131304 | Strategic Defense Initiative | a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983 | 5 | |
| 12751131305 | Contras | members of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that opposed the left-wing Sandinista government 1979-90, and was supported by the US for much of that time | 6 | |
| 12751131306 | Sandinistas | members of a left-wing Nicaraguan political organization, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which came to power in 1979 after overthrowing the dictator Anastasio Somoza | 7 | |
| 12751131307 | Operation Desert Storm | the name used for the military operation in which international armed forces, including British and US troops, attacked Iraq in the Gulf War. It began on January 16, 1991, and lasted 100 days. | 8 | |
| 12751131308 | Americans With Disabilities Act | is federal legislation passed in 1990 that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities | 9 | |
| 12751131309 | gender gap | the discrepancy in opportunities, status, attitudes, etc., between men and women. | 10 | |
| 12751131310 | Chappaquiddick | a single-vehicle car accident caused by Edward Kennedy's negligence and resulted in the death of his 28-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne | 11 | |
| 12751131311 | detente | the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. | 12 | |
| 12751131312 | revenue sharing | the distribution of a portion of federal tax revenues to state and local governments. | 13 | |
| 12751131313 | executive privilege | the privilege, claimed by the president for the executive branch of the US government, of withholding information in the public interest. | 14 | |
| 12751131314 | Vietnamization | the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. | 15 | |
| 12751131315 | Nixon Doctrine | implied the intentions of Nixon shifting the direction on international policies in Asia | 16 | |
| 12751131316 | War Powers Act | a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. | 17 | |
| 12751131317 | energy crisis | is any significant bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy. | 18 | |
| 12751131318 | Twenty-fifth amendment | the procedures for replacing the president or vice president in the event of death, removal, resignation, or incapacitation. | 19 | |
| 12751131319 | Saturday Night Massacre | a referred name to the series of events that took place in the United States on the evening of October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal. | 20 | |
| 12751131320 | Title IX | No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. | 21 | |
| 12751131321 | Equal Rights Amendment | a proposed amendment to the US Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one's sex. | 22 | |
| 12751131322 | Roe v. Wade | established a woman's right to have an abortion without undue restrictive interference from the government. | 23 | |
| 12751131323 | Camp David Agreement | a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt issuing from talks betweenEgyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the host, U.S. President Carter: signed in 1979. | 24 |
