| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Malls as Symbols of an Age | Cathedrals of consumption reflected a society turning away from social protest and crusades to more private paths of personal fulfillment |
| Worldwide Conservative Tide | Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister in GB, Soviets turn to religion in face of Communist disillusionment, Mao successors in China introduce market capitalism to economy |
| Evangelicals | resisted the trend toward more secular values, wanted prayer in schools and creationism to be taught |
| Pope John Paul II | Assumed Papacy 1979, Conservative Pope, against strengthening women’s position in church, more staunch on birth control |
| Topical Sitcoms | MASH, All in The Family with Archie Bunker; the strictness made before by Hollywood was not as enforced and shows became more offensive |
| The Reagan Style | the great communicator, “hands-off” style: less management, not more, was what the nation needed after a succession of activist presidents from Kennedy to Carter |
| Supply-Side Economics | cut taxes for businesses to increase growth and stimulate the economy, trickle down economics (help the top & the money will trickle down to the poor eventually aka Reaganomics) |
| Fighting Inflation | favored higher unemployment and weakened unions to reduce labor costs |
| Military Buildup | sharp rise in military outlays, $1.5 trillion to be spent over 5 years |
| Environmental Controversies | Opposed most conservation efforts and repealed many old acts to allow off shore oiling and private development |
| Tax Cuts | 25% cut for all though it left more money in the hands of the wealthy (Reaganomics) |
| The Transfer of Wealth | Much more wealth kept in the hands of the wealthy |
| Star Wars | Space-based missile system that would be merely defensive A protective web of missile satellites above the US (fantastical) |
| Grenada Invasion | US invades small Carribbean island of Grenada whose govt was threatened by Pro-Castro revolutionaries, we crush the rebels & protect lots of Americans studying medicine on the island (mainly a symbolic gesture) |
| Boland Amendment | response to CIA attempting to overthrow the govt in Nicaragua, forbids the CIA or any other agency or entity involved in intelligence activities to spend money to support the Contras (many memebers served the oppresive regime that the US had backed & had been overthrown in '79) |
| Arms for Hostages Deal | give arms to Iran for their help/influence in freeing some hostages from Lebanon, only 1 hostage is ever released |
| Oliver North | not a big fan of bureaucratic procedures he goes around the Boland Amdmt, IRAN CONTRA scandals: launders profits from selling arms to Iran to buy arms for Contras |
| Irangate | the whole Iran weapon selling ordeal (Reagan's Watergate) |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | new leader in Russia, favored improving conditions with US, policy of openness (GLASNOST) about problems in USSR |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraq’s dictator, he hides in holes, attacks Kuwait |
| Operation Desert Storm | attack Iraq and Kuwait, air strikes first then ground units, Hussein out of spite burns oil fields and pours oil in Persian Gulf |
| Environmental Issues | Bush I tries to reform, appts William Reilly to EPA but not a lot gets done b/c of opposition in Congress |
| The Clarence Thomas Hearings | He is confirmed even though one woman (Anita Hill) accuses him of sexual harassment (this is the pubic hair on the coke can thing i believe.. i could be wrong) |
| S&L Crisis | savings and loans crisis- savings and loans were going down so the govt allowed more lenient investment which led to corruption that would cost billions for the Bush adminsitation to back by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation |
| Gramm-Rudman Act | a set of steadily increasing limits on federal spending, meant to bring about a balanced budget |
| White-Collar Unemployment | high unemployment by 1992 election even among white collar workers |
| “It’s the Economy Stupid” | Clinton’s sign tacked up to remind his workers of the campaigns central theme |
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