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  1. 5. During the 1980 election between Reagan and Carter, people who were against Carter chanted this. Page 939.
  2. 6. After four decades of New Deal and Great Society programs, the budget of the government shifted from defense to __________________.
  3. 7. The belief that a combination of budgetary discipline and tax reduction would stimulate new investment, invigorate productivity, foster economic growth, and eventually boost tax revenues, therefore reducing the federal deficit. It was the theory behind Reaganomics. Page 941.
  4. 10. Southern conservative democrats who Reagan succeeded in wooing to his side. They left their party to follow the president. Reagan convinced them to join him so he could have some leverage in the democratic house (the senate was already republican). Page 941
  5. 13. There was a huge federal deficit and international deficit. More banks and savings institutions were going out of business than during the great depression. On October 19, 1987 also known as ____________________, the leading stock index plunged 508 points, the largest one day decline ever. Page 950
  6. 14. Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed this treaty in 1987 at the third of four summit meetings. It banned all missiles from Europe. Page 944
  7. 15. The combination of tax reductions and increases in military spending from Reaganomics opened a vast __________ of 200 billion dollar annual deficits. Page 946
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  1. 1. First female supreme court justice. Page 949
  2. 2. A political advocacy group launched in 1979 by reverend Jerry Falwell. It preached against sexual permissiveness, abortion, and gay rights. Page 946
  3. 3. A group of conservative, evangelical Christians present in politics in the 1980’s. Page 946.
  4. 4. In 1981 congress passed tax reforms. In 1986 Reagan convinced congress to double down even harder with the ___________ (page 941)
  5. 8. Reagan focused on increasing the welfare parts of the government. In 1973 the spending of the department of health, education, and welfare surpassed the department of defense spending. After four decades of this type of spending, taxes were high and Californians broke out in this tax revolt in 1978, forcing the government to cut property taxes and other services. Page 941.
  6. 9. 1973, in this case the Supreme Court prohibits states from making laws that interfere with a woman’s right to an abortion. Page 949
  7. 11. In late 1981 the government of Poland instituted martial law because the working people organized a massive union called _____________. Reagan suspected Kremlin was involved and imposed economic sanctions on Poland and the USSR. Page 942
  8. 12. thatcher Britain’s first female prime minister in 1979. She had similar goals to Reagan, wanted smaller government, less bureaucracy, freer markets (which was Reaganomics). She wanted to reduce the power of labor unions and government interference with business. The similarities between her and Reagan strengthened the Anglo-American alliance. Page 940