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| Supply Side Economics/ Trickle Down Theory |
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| All the deficits put together. |
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| When an economy has high unemployment and business profits fall. Not a good time. |
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| SDI(Strategic Defensive Initiative) ("Star Wars") |
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| This plan was to put mirrors and lasers in outer space which would destroy nuclear war heads before they landed. Physic professors signed a petition saying this plan wouldn't work because there would be no way to test it. Also the lasers wouldn't be able to shoot down a 30 war head missile. |
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| First Women on the Supreme Court who served from 1981-2005. |
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| Tried to assassinate Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. He shot Reagan in between the lung and the heart and it took 2 hours to find/take out. If it wouldn't have been taken out, Reagan would have died because the bullet was an explosive. |
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| Because of signing the peace treaty with Israel, Muslim Fanatics shot him. |
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| Pope John Paul II's Attempted Assassination |
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| The man who tried to do it because Bulgaria told him to. He also said he was Jesus Christ. |
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| Containment Through Military and Economic Means |
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| Mutual Deterrence(you know I'll nuke you if you nuke me - that deters you from doing it) |
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| We gave money to the government to fight of communist rebels. |
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| Nicaraguan rebels that tried to fight and overthrow the Sandinista ruling. Regan gave them aide but then Reagan started sending soldiers down there to teach them how to assassinate the Sandinistas so Congress shut off all connections to them but Reagan disobeyed. |
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| Communism took over the government. U.S. went down and changed the government. |
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| Labor Union that did not get very good pay or good hours. Lech Walesa who worked at the labor union fought for the rights of the workers and it turned into him fighting for Poland's freedom. Soviet Union sent police in to get Lech and sent him to a prison camp. After Soviet Union collapsed, Lech was nominated for first president. |
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| Leader of the rebellion and first president of free Poland. |
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| Whites and blacks in Africa did not get fair treatment. Blacks were not allowed to go into the white area. They were to be contained. U.S. boycotted South African stuff. |
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| Was apart of the ANC and fought against the Apartheid but was sent to prison for 27 years. After being in prison, he became president. |
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| Last white president and freed Mandela from prison. |
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| Beirut 1983(attack on U.S. Marines) |
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| U.S.S.R. shoots down Korean Passenger Jet 1983 |
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| A jet "strayed" into Soviet Union territory and they shot it down. There are 2 theories behind it but the whole story is pretty shady. |
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| U.S. shoots down Iranian Passenger Jet 1988 |
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| We thought the plane was a terrorist plane but it was a regularly scheduled flight that always flew there. The incident was rubbed in our faces. |
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Reagan/Bush vs. Mondale/Ferraro
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| Democratic Candidate for the 1984 election. |
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| First women elected for Vice President. Not well known and was not very smart. |
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| Reagan's hostage policy was that we would not make nagociations with terrorists for hostages. Reagan lied and made a deal with Iran saying if we sell you our weapons, you will give us our hostages back. We made the deal but they took more hostages anyway and with the money we got from selling, we gave it to the contras which was disobeying congress. |
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| Found guilty in the Iran-Contra Scandal for aiding cover up. His punishment was to pay a fine and do community service. |
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| He was Norths Supervisor. He did not tell Reagan about the fund diversion. He destroyed a document in which Reagan approved the arms-for-hostages concept. |
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| This was Reagan's nickname because nothing stuck to him. |
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Bush/Quayle vs. Dukakis/Bensten
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| Republican candidate that wins in 1988. |
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| The vice president who is very stupid for George Bush. |
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| Democratic candidate/running partner in 1988 election. |
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| "..there will be no new taxes" but Bush lied and he did raise use taxes. |
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| Leader of Panama that was involved in Drug trading so we went down their and took him out and made him have a trial in Miami. He was sentenced 40 years in prison. |
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| New leader of the Soviet Union. Opens up the government to much and that leads to the fall of the Soviet Union. |
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| "Restructure", he said he was going to change up things to make it more like a democracy but it turned out bad and everyone left. |
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| Meaning openness. He allowed people to leave and criticize the government. |
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| Fall of Eastern Europe Satellites |
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| Because Gorbachev opened the government up so much, all the satellites broke away from the Soviet Union and started building their own governments. |
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| Berlin Wall is ordered to be broken down. It was supposed to be opened on the next day but soldiers started breaking it down at night. A huge rush of people came and broke down the wall just to get to the free side. |
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