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| 764501407 | Jimmy Carter | 1976; Democrat; signed SALT II, relinquished US control of the Panama Canal, Camp David Accords-negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt; chemical contamination emergency in Love Canal; final part of term marred by Iran Hostage Crisis | |
| 764501408 | Edward Kennedy | younger brother of JFK who challenged and lost to Jimmy Carter in the Democratic primary of 1980 | |
| 764501409 | Ronald Reagan | the 40th U.S. president (1981-1989). his administration greatly increased military spending, cut taxes, and reduced spending for social programs. | |
| 764501410 | Norman Podhoretz | An American neoconservative theorist and writer for Commentary magazine | |
| 764501411 | Irving Kristol | an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism" | |
| 764501412 | Walter Mondale | Vice President of Jimmy Carter and Democratic nominee for President; lost a crushing defeat against Ronald Reagan. | |
| 764501413 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931). | |
| 764501414 | Geraldine Ferraro | In 1984 she was the first woman to appear on a major-party presidential ticket. She was a congresswoman running for Vice President with Walter Modale. | |
| 764501415 | Corazon Aquino | Philippine politician and president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992; she struggled to restore political stability, return to democracy, and rebuild the nation's economy. | |
| 764501416 | Sandra Day O'Connor | first woman supreme court justice. appointed by Reagan | |
| 764501417 | Jerry Falwell | Led Moral Majority to restore Christian values to society | |
| 764501418 | Jesse Jackson | United States civil rights leader who led a national anti-discrimination campaign and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) | |
| 764501419 | Robert Bork | he was rejected for nomination to the Supreme Court as being too conservative | |
| 764501420 | Michael Dukakis | Massachusetts governor who was nominated by the Democrats to run | |
| 764501421 | George Herbert Walker Bush | Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924) | |
| 764501422 | Boris Yeltsin | President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign. | |
| 764501423 | Saddam Hussein | Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran | |
| 764501424 | Norman Schwartzkopf | Successful commander of American forces in the First Persian Gulf War | |
| 764501425 | Clarence Thomas | 2nd African American Supreme Court Justice | |
| 764501426 | Anita Hill | Former associate of Clarence Thomas, who accused him of sexual harassment in Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. | |
| 764501427 | "supply-side" economics | a school of economics that believes tax cuts can help an economy by raising supply | |
| 764501428 | Perestroika | an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union | |
| 764501429 | Glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | |
| 764501430 | new religious right | denounced abortion, pornography, homosexuality, feminism, and especially affermative action. | |
| 764501431 | identity politics | the practice of organizing on the basis of sex, ethnic or racial identity, or sexual orientation to compete for public resources and influence public policy | |
| 764501432 | rainbow coalition | Jesse Jackson's idea of forging an alliance between groups of minorities and the disadvantaged | |
| 764501433 | ethnic cleansing | the mass expulsion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area | |
| 764501434 | "ABC" movement | "Anybody But Carter" Movement | |
| 764501435 | Chappaquiddick | 1969 automobile accident that happened on an island in which a young woman assistant was drowned when Kennedy's car plunged off a bridge | |
| 764501436 | Reaganomics | 1980s; Reagan's economic program which cut taxes and government regulation in order to increase productivity, and eventully increase tax revenue as cash flowed in the economy | |
| 764501437 | yuppies | Term for "young urban professionals" of the 1980s who flaunted their wealth through conspicuous consumer spending | |
| 764501438 | Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") | A costly plan to put lasers in space to defend the United States against a nuclear attack. | |
| 764501439 | Contras | counterrevolutionary group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinistas | |
| 764501440 | Sandinistas | anti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua | |
| 764501441 | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force | Nuclear missles that were limited by the INF treaty | |
| 764501442 | Iran-Contra Affair | Scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected. | |
| 764501443 | Planned Parenthood v. Casey | 1992 SuCo: Standard for evaluating abortion restrictions was loosened. | |
| 764501444 | Rose v. Wade | Court ruled that a women's right to privacy also encompases her right to an abortion/ Warren Burger | |
| 764501445 | Operation Desert Storm | the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours (1991) | |
| 764501446 | Americans With Disabilities Act | 1992; Gives civil rights projections to those provided on the basis of race, sex, national origin, age, and religion; EOC administers these laws. | |
| 764501447 | "gender gap" | difference in political views between men and women |
