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| 6582753658 | The Conscience of a Conservative | A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author, Barry Goldwater. | 0 | |
| 6582753659 | National Review | A conservative magazine founded by editor William F. Buckley in 1955, who used it to criticize liberal policy. | 1 | |
| 6582753660 | Religious Right | Politically active religious conservatives, especially Catholics and evangelical Christians, who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism, abortion, and homosexuality and who promoted "family values." | 2 | |
| 6582753661 | hostage crisis | Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution. Iranians broke into the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans hostage. The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat. | 3 | |
| 6582753662 | Reagan coalition | A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters, middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states, blue-collar Catholics, and a large contingent of southern whites, an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964. | 4 | |
| 6582753663 | Moral Majority | A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president. | 5 | |
| 6582753664 | Reagan Democrats | Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized mid-western states such Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for Republicans. | 6 | |
| 6582753665 | supply-side economics (Reaganomics) | Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply) and stimulate consumption (demand) because individuals can keep more of their earnings. In reality, supply-side economics created a massive federal budget deficit. | 7 | |
| 6582753666 | Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) | Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history. | 8 | |
| 6582753667 | national debt | The cumulative total of all budget deficits. | 9 | |
| 6582753668 | deregulation | The limiting of regulation by federal agencies. Deregulation of prices in the trucking, airline, and railroad industries had begun under President Carter in the late 1970s, and Reagan expanded it to include cutting back on government protections of consumers, workers, and the environment. | 10 | |
| 6582753669 | HIV/AIDS | A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s. | 11 | |
| 6582753670 | service industries | Term that includes food, beverage, and tourist industries, financial and medical service industries, and computer technology industries, which were the leading sectors of U.S. growth in the second half of the 1980s. This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel, autos, and chemicals. | 12 | |
| 6582753671 | Sandinistas | The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S. business interests. Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras. | 13 | |
| 6582753672 | Contras | An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist. While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to the Contras, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines, Oliver North, used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the Contras, resulting in the Iran-Contra affair. | 14 | |
| 6582753673 | Iran-Contra affair | Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection - illegal because banned by American law - of the proceeds of these sales to the Nicaraguan Contras. | 15 | |
| 6582753674 | glasnost | The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed, unintentionally, to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. | 16 | |
| 6582753675 | perestroika | The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed, unintentionally, to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. | 17 | |
| 6582753676 | family values | Values promoted by the Religious Right, including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion. | 18 | |
| 6582753677 | Persian Gulf War | The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory. | 19 | |
| 6582756724 | Barry Goldwater | Senator of Arizona. Ran for president. Lost to Johnson. Wrote the Conscience of a Conservative. Attacked the New Deal state, containment. Led a grassroots conservative movement. Influenced Reagan and gained a lot of followers. | 20 | |
| 6582756725 | Ronald Reagan | Republican president. Ended the Cold War. The Reagan Coalition. V popular, Reagan Democrats. Moral majority. The Religious Right. Reagonomics/ supply-side economics. Deregulation of gov. Didn't help with AIDS/ HIV or civil rights much. Remade the judiciary by appointing a lot. | 21 | |
| 6582759106 | William F. Buckley | Conservative magazine the National Review. Criticized liberal policy. Argued that economic freedom leads to political freedom. Wanted less gov in the economy. | 22 | |
| 6582759107 | Milton Friedman | Nobel-prize winning economist. Against gov growth. | 23 | |
| 6582761817 | David Stockman | Reagan's budget director hoped to match the tax reductions with cutbacks in federal spending. Proposed financial cuts to Social Security and Medicare. His idea Was not accepted. Said Supply side economics was based off faith not economics. Manipulated projections figured. Admitted that SSE was based off trickle down economics. National debt increased because of SSE. | 24 | |
| 6582764323 | Sandra Day O'Connor | First woman on the Supreme Court. Elected by Reagan in 1981. Helped scale back liberal rulings of the Warren and Burger Courts. | 25 | |
| 6582766389 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Ended the Cold War with Reagan because the SU could not economically keep up with the US. His people hated him for it. | 26 | |
| 6582766390 | George H. W. Bush | Reagan's VP and successor. Not beloved by conservatives. Became president in 1989. Promised to not raise taxes but economy sucked because if Reaganomics so he did and lost support. | 27 |
