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| 8572430956 | Proposition 13 (1978) | A successful California state ballot initiative that capped the state's real estate tax at 1 percent of assessed value. | 0 | |
| 8572430957 | boll weevils | Term for conservative southern Democrats who voted increasingly for Republican issues during the Carter and Reagan administrations. | 1 | |
| 8572430958 | supply-side economics | Economic theory that underlay Ronald Reagan's tax and spending cuts. Contrary to Keynesianism, supply-side theory declared that government policy should aim to increase the supply of goods and services, rather than the demand for them. It held that lower taxes and decreased regulation would increase productivity by providing increased incentives to work, thus increasing productivity and the tax base. | 2 | |
| 8572430959 | Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) | Reagan administration plan announced in 1983 to create a missile-defense system over American territory to block a nuclear attack. Derided as "Star Wars" by critics, the plan typified Reagan's commitment to vigorous defense spending even as he sought to limit the size of government in domestic matters. | 3 | |
| 8572430960 | Sandinistas | Leftwing anti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua who launched a civil war in 1979. | 4 | |
| 8572430961 | Contras | Anti-Sandinista fighters in the Nicaraguan civil war. The contras were secretly supplied with American military aid, paid for with money the United Sates clandestinely made selling arms to Iran. | 5 | |
| 8572430962 | Glasnost | Meaning "openness," a cornerstone along with perestroika of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's reform movement in the USSR in the 1980s. These policies resulted in greater market liberalization, access to the West, and ultimately the end of communist rule. | 6 | |
| 8572430963 | Perestroika | Meaning "restructuring," a cornerstone along with glasnost of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's reform movement in the USSR in the 1980s | 7 | |
| 8572430964 | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (NIF) Treaty (1987) | Arms limitation agreement settled by Reagan and Gorbachev after several attempts. It banned all of these types of missiles from Europe and marked a significant thaw in the Cold War. | 8 | |
| 8572430965 | Iran-Contra affair | 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 | 9 | |
| 8572430966 | 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. | 10 | |
| 8572430967 | Black Monday | October 19, 1987. Date of the largest single-day decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average until September 2001. The downturn indicated instability in the booming business culture of the 1980s but did not lead to a serious economic recession. | 11 | |
| 8572430968 | Operation Desert Storm (1991) | U.S. led multicounty military engagement in January and February of 1991 that drove Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army out of neighboring Kuwait. | 12 | |
| 8572430969 | Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (1990) | Landmark law signed by President George H.W. Bush that prohibited discrimination against people with physical or mental handicaps. I represented a legislative triumph for champions of equal protections to all. | 13 | |
| 8572430970 | Ronald Reagan (1991-2004) | Fortieth president of the United States, 1981-1989. A former actor and California governor, he was elected in 1980 with a pronounced conservative mandate to fix the American economy by scaling back taxes and the role of government in business. | 14 | |
| 8572430971 | Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) | Conservative prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. As an ideological partner to President Ronald Reagan, Thatcher enacted economic liberalization reforms and attempted to check the powers of labor unions in Britain. | 15 | |
| 8572430972 | Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-) | Last leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev assumed control in 1985 and ushered in a period of reforms known as glasnost and perestroika. | 16 | |
| 8572430973 | Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) | Iraq dictator who led the Ba'ath party in a coup in 1968and ruled in a coup in 1968 and ruled Iraq until the U.S. invasion. | 17 | |
| 8572430974 | Jerry Falwell (1933-2007) | Christian evangelical reverend and radical right-wing traditionalist. In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, a political action committee dedicated to moral values and in opposition to feminism and gay rights. | 18 | |
| 8572430975 | Sandra Day O' Connor (1930-) | The first female justice on the Supreme Court. A graduate of Stanford Law School,, she served as an attorney, jurist, and politician in Arizona before being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. | 19 | |
| 8572430976 | George H. W. Bush (1924-) | Forty-first president of the United States, 1989-1993. A former congressman diplomat, businessman, Republican party chairman, and director the CIA, Bush served for eight years as Reagan's vice president before being elected president in 1988. | 20 | |
| 8572430977 | Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) | First president of Russia, who took over as the former Soviet republic became independent in 1991. | 21 | |
| 8572430978 | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) | Anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress. After spending twenty-seven years in prison in South Africa, Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, dramatically signaling the end of racial apartheid in the country. | 22 | |
| 8572430979 | Manuel Noriega (1935-) | Panamanian general and dictator from 1983 to 1989. Noriega was ousted from power after the U.S. invasion in late 1989, convicted in the United States of drug trafficking, and imprisoned in Miami, Florida. | 23 | |
| 8572430980 | Clarence Thomas (1948-) | The second black American to serve on the Supreme Court, Thomas is a conservative justice who adheres to constitutional interpretation based on the doctrine of originalism. | 24 |
