History Vocab Terms for Unit 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Willie Horton Ad | Bush's ad featuring Willie Horton, a man who killed someone while discharged from prison by Dukakis for the weekend. This made Dukakis look weak on crime issues. |
| Read my lips, no new taxes | Famous promise made by Bush in his convention speech in 1988 |
| The Cold War | a rivalry between the USSR and the USA over who had the most influence around the world |
| START Treaty | A treaty signed by Bush and Gorbachev which reduced nuclear weapons in the USA and USSR |
| Berlin Wall | Major symbol of communist oppression in the world and was torn down in 1989; stood since 1961 to keep East Germans from escaping to freedom in the west |
| Tiananmen Square | A Chinese massacre involving several hundred Chinese students protesting against communism who were killed by the Chinese Government |
| Operation Desert Shield | The sending of troops to Saudi Arabia in August of 1990 to prevent Iraq from moving further or taking Saudi Oil Fields |
| Operation Desert Storm | Military response to Saddam refusing to meet the US deadline to withdraw from Kuwait |
| F-117 Nighthawk | A stealth bomber that could drop bombs without ever being detected |
| Smart Bombs | A bomb that could hit pinpoint targets using laser technology |
| Daisy Cutter | Bombs that had the power of 15,000 tons of TNT |
| Powell Doctrine | Doctrine that says when the USA enters a fight they should get in, use overwhelming force, and leave quickly |
| S&L Crisis | When S&L's made risky investments that they previously were not allowed to make. Then the real estate market crashed due to change in the tax law and S&L's began to lose lots of money |
| Americans with Disabilities Act | A act pushed by Bob Dole that helped the disabled not be discriminated against (equal access, wheelchair ramps, etc.) |
| Moral Majority | A conservative religious group that supported Reagan |
| Reagan Democrats | Southerners and blue collar workers that crossed over to vote for Reagan because they were more socially conservative on matters of morality |
| Deregulation | To remove government regulatory rules |
| Supply-side economics (trickle-down economics) | The concept that if taxes are less people will have more money to spend and the whole economy will be better |
| Evil empire | What Reagan called the USSR |
| SDI or Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) | A space-based missile defense system |
| Iran-Contra Scandal | Reagan had supported the Contras in Nicaragua until government denied funding for further operations. He secretly sold weapons and gave money to the Contras who said they could help get American hostages in the middle-east released |
| Teflon President | Reagan's nickname given to him by critics because the Iran-Contra Scandal wouldn't stick to him |
| INF Treaty (Intermediate Nuclear Forces) | A major arms control agreement signed by Reagan and Gorbachev |
| Just Say No | First Lady Nancy Reagan's famous solution to drug abuse |
| MTV | Cable-television innovation in 1981 that transformed the music industry |
| CNN (Cable News Network) | First 24 hour instant news cycle starting in 1980 |
| DOS and IBM PC | New technology released by IBM in 1980-1981 |
| AIDS Virus (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) | Deadly virus first recognized in the early 1980's |
| Challenger Space Shuttle | A space shuttle carrying 7 astronauts that blew up after its first launch |
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