Chapter 40 - The Resurgence of Conservatism

Reagan

________ sought to use Supreme court to fight affirmative action and abortion.

Cold War

________ was intensified by end of 1983 with all arms- control negotiations being broken.

Clinton

________ called for accepting homosexuals in armed forces.

Hillary Clinton

________ was given the job of revamping the U.S.s health adn medical care system.

Radical Muslim group

Bombed the World Trade Center in New York, on February 26, 1993, killing 6 people

Newt Gingrich

Led Republicans on an attack of Clintons liberal failures in 1994

USSR

________ declared martial law in Poland in 1981.

Mexico

Created a free- trade zone between ________, Canada, and the United States while eliminating tariffs between the countries.

Gorbachev

Became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985

Israel

Invaded Lebanon in June of 1982

Saddam Hussein

Invaded Kuwait, seeking oil on August 2, 1990

Bush

Signed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990

George H W Bush

Republicans nominated ________ in the election of 1988.

Roe v Wade

In ________ the court prohibited states from making laws that interfered with a womans right to an abortion in the early months of pregnancy.

Affirmative action

Consisted of of the court making it more difficult to prove that an employer practiced racial discrimination in hiring through two cases in 1989

2004

Republicans are- nominated Bush in the election of ________ while the Democrats nominated John F. Kerry.

Falwell

Preached against sexual permissiveness, abortion, feminism, and the sperad of gay rights

overall strengthening of Social Security

Gore supported smaller tax cuts and ________.

Bush

Supported returning the federal budget surplus back to the people in the form of tax cuts and giving money to private institutions that helped the poverty stricken

centrality of family

Regan called for the reassertion of individualistic traditional values and the ________.

Reagan

________ announced missile- defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative (called Star Wars)

Clinton

________ negotiated a deal to receive immunity from possible legal action over the Lewinsky scandal, just before leaving office.

Reagan

________ was shot on March 6, 1981 with him recovering and returning back to work 12 days later.

Clinton

Led the reconciliation meeting between Israels Rabin and Palestinian Arafat at the White House

Reagan

Supported "supply- side "economics and believed that they would stimulate new investment, boost productivity, promote dramatic economic growth, and reduce the federal deficit

Clinton

________ committed American troops to NATO to keep peace in former Yugoslavia.

Reagan

Sent "military advisors" to El Salvador in 1979 to support the pro- American government

Reagan

________ called for substantial tax cuts.

Reagan

________ won election of 1984.

Reagan

________ administration secretly sold arms to Iran to circumvent Congresss ban on sending arms to Nicaraguan rebels.

Reagan

Was a neoconservative in opposition of a big government