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  1. 2. special interest group concerned with the 2nd Amendment
  2. 6. enforced by U.S. Fish and Wildlife, tries to protect and rehabilitate populations of animals from becoming extinct
  3. 8. president during the Persian Gulf War
  4. 9. president who created the department of energy
  5. 11. North American trade agreement between U.S., Mexico, and Canada to reduce trade barriers and allow for the freedom of movement for capital
  6. 14. Ronald Reagan's modernization of the U.S. military
  7. 17. nicknamed "Star Wars," this was Reagan's plan to use battle stations in space to shoot other satellites with lasers
  8. 19. alliance of religious groups that opposed abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment
  9. 21. meeting between Israel and Egypt to create a lasting peace between the two countries
  10. 22. organization of countries that are major oil exporters who try and control global oil prices and production
  11. 25. agency charged with protecting the environment and water from pollution
  12. 26. trade agreement that reduce barriers throughout the world
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  1. 1. global institution that moderates trade agreements and currency exchange between countries
  2. 3. Supreme Court ruling that found that students and teachers had 1st Amendment protections in public schools
  3. 4. 53 Americans are taken hostage by Islamic revolutionaries
  4. 5. normalizing of a relationship by relaxing tensions
  5. 7. practice where a company purchases its own stocks and pays the CEO in stocks to reduce stock supply and drive up the prices of those remaining stocks as a way of inflating the value of the company
  6. 8. president after Nixon who pardoned Nixon for his crimes
  7. 10. conservative think tank
  8. 12. former actor and governor of California that became president in the 1980s
  9. 13. alternative name for the First Iraq War
  10. 15. scandal where Nixon's campaign broke into the DNC headquarters to wiretap their phones
  11. 16. Reagan's economic plan to cut taxes for corporations and the rich because it would trickle down in job creation for the poor
  12. 18. when the House of Representatives votes to remove the president of the United States
  13. 20. president who signed the Families Medical Leave Act, balanced the budget, and raised the minimum wage
  14. 23. scandal where the Reagan administration and CIA were selling weapons to Iran to fund Nicaraguan cartels attempting to overthrow the government
  15. 24. return to containment policy but with aggressive military intervention in other countries