Chapter 29: The Triumph of the Right

The ________ in 1976 brought a Democrat to the White House for the first time since 1969.

The 1976 ________ prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for abortions /

The ________ gained ground on gender and sexual politics, but it captured the entire battlefield on American foreign policy in the 1980s.

________ won the election with 51 percent of the popular vote to Carters 41 percent.

In 1982, the House voted ________ to approve the Boland Amendment, which barred the United States from supplying funds to the contras, a right- wing insurgency fighting the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

________ sat just below the surface of the IRS fight, since many of the schools had been founded to circumvent court- ordered desegregation.

In 1977 and 1978, ________ rallied behind the Humphrey- Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act, which promised to end unemployment through extensive government planning.

________, deregulating business industries, balancing the federal budget, and raising interest rates.

In 1979 ________ (a Baptist minister and religious broadcaster from Lynchburg, Virginia) founded the Moral Majority, an explicitly political organization dedicated to advancing a "pro- life, pro- family, pro- morality, and pro- American "agenda.

________ replaced the social films of the 1970s.

In the early 1960s, ________ decisions prohibiting teacher- led prayer (Engel v. Vitale) and Bible reading in public schools (Abington v. Schempp) led some on the right to conclude that a liberal judicial system threatened Christian values.

________ took advantage of the Republican takeover of the White House and Senate in 1980 to push for new restrictions on abortion- with limited success.

When ________ invaded Iran in 1980, the United States supplied Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with military intelligence and business credits (even after it became clear that Iraqi forces were using chemical weapons)

The ________ marked the culmination of a long process of political mobilization on the American right.

In 1968 and 1969 a group of newly politicized mothers in ________, California, led a sustained protest against sex education in public schools.

The countercultures ________ and drugs, along with relaxed obscenity and pornography laws, intensified the conviction that "permissive "liberalism encouraged immorality in private life.

The ________, a commemorative project begun in 1985, sought to humanize AIDS victims.

________ was the only time Reagan deployed the American military in Latin America, but the United States also influenced the region by supporting right- wing, anticommunist movements there.

When ________ appeared in the early 1980s, most of its victims were gay men.

________ held that lower personal and corporate tax rates would encourage greater private investment and production.

When the ________ came up for renewal during Reagans first term, the Justice Department pushed the president to oppose any extension.

On October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber killed 241 Marines stationed in ________.

________ presented African Americans with a series of contradictions.

The ________ took a more cautious approach in the Middle East, where its policy was determined by a mix of anticommunism and hostility toward the Islamic government of Iran.

The ________ demanded a more proactive response to the epidemic.

The ________ and the confinement of 52 American hostages in Iran had discredited Carters foreign policy in the eyes of many Americans.

________ ran as a staunch fiscal conservative and a Cold War hawk, vowing to reduce government spending and shrink the federal bureaucracy.

easing tensions with the Soviet Union

The _______________ was an explicitly political organization dedicated to advancing a “pro-life, pro-family, pro-morality, and pro-American” agenda

The ______________________ promised to end unemployment through extensive government planning

_____________ was the theory that lower personal and corporate tax rates would encourage greater private investment and production

The ___________________ was supposed to deal with the millions of undocumented immigrants already in the United States and stop future unsanctioned migration

______ is a serious disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles

The ________________________ declared that the United States would supply aid to anticommunist forces everywhere in the world

In ______________________ the US Marines overthrew the leftist government in Grenada after less than a week of fighting

The ____________________ was a space-based defense system that could shoot down incoming Soviet missiles

The _________________ was the result of the Reagan administration funding the contra even though they were not supposed to

The ______________________ committed both the US and the USSR to a sharp reduction in their nuclear arsenal