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Junko Reagan Bush

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Budget Deficit   Yearly government spending exceeds income  
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Jerry Falwell   The founder of the conservative movement called the moral majority that supported Ronald Reagan  
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Manuel Noriega   The leader of Panama that was involved with the smuggling of drugs in to the United States  
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Iran Contra Affair   The political scandal in which the Reagan administration traded guns for hostages in the Middle East  
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The New Right   a coalition of conservative media, think tanks, and evangelical christian groups  
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Strategic Defense Initiative   Also known as "Star Wars". This was Reagan's plan to build a missile shield.  
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Contras   Name given to the anti-communist rebels fighting in Nicaragua  
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Tienanmen Square   The site of a large protest against the Chinese government in 1989  
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"No New Taxes"   George H.W. Bush's campaign promise that he was unable to keep  
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Space Shuttle Challenger   This tragedy took place in 1986 which called for Reagan to comfort the American people  
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Gorbachev   Leader of the Soviet Union that met with Ronald Reagan to reduce the number of nuclear weapons  
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California   President Reagan was a governor in this State before becoming President  
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Grenada   President Reagan sent troops to put down a communist coup in 1983  
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Nelson Mandela   The leader of South Africa that was opposed to the Apartheid movement  
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Boris Yeltsin   The leader of the Russian Republic after the fall of the Soviet Union  
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Saddam Hussein   The leader of Iraq that attacked Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War  
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Jesse Jackson   The first African American to win Super Tuesday states during the Democratic Primary of 1988  
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Oliver North   Key Marine Colonel that helped to run the secret operation to fund the Contras in Nicaragua  
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Michael Dukakis   The Democrat nominee that ran against George Bush in 1988  
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Sandinistas   The pro Communist group in Nicaragua  
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Supply Side Economics   Another name for Reagan's economic policy  
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