American Nation Chapter 29
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- balanced budget
- When the government spends only the money it takes in.
- Star Wars
- An American space-based defense system.
- Sandinistas
- Nicaraguan socialists whose government President Reagan did not support.
- Contras
- People in Nicaragua who wanted to overthrow the socialist government of the Sandinistas.
- glasnost
- The policy of openness that existed in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev; people were encouraged to speak out about problems in the Soviet Union.
- economic sanctions
- Actions, such as boycotts, taken against a country to bring about change without bloodshed.
- Iran-Contra deal
- Officials working for the President lied to Congress and caused a scandal.
- Solidarity
- The name of the trade union that was banned (not permitted) by the Soviets in Poland.
- apartheid
- The policy that kept whites and blacks separate in South Africa.
- recession
- Slow down of economic growth accompanied by high unemployment.
- Alliance for Progress
- A program to help Latin America.
- Camp David Accord
- A treaty signed by Israel and Egypt to promote peace in the Middle East.
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
- Group that has waged guerrilla warfare against Israel.
- Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
- Law that requires government spending to be cut by certain amounts each year to control the deficit.
- INF Treaty
- Agreement to ban short-range and medium-range missiles.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- leader who wanted to rebuild the Soviet economy
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
- Manuel Noriega
- strongman ruler of Panama, captured by U.S. troops, held in U.S. jail
- Corazon Aquino
- first woman elected president of the Phillipines by "people power"
- President Reagan
- conservative president who supported smaller government, less spending on government programs
- budget deficit (amount of money U.S. government spends that is more than it brings in)
- increased sharply in the 1980s
- "Negotiate from strength"
- President Reagan's slogan for how to talk to the Soviet Union
- Soviet Union - 1989
- begins accept the reforms - a more open press, government, etc.
- Why did the Soviet Union break up?
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-rivalries among ethnic groups
-a weak economy
-an attempted coup against the government - Romania
- the dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, was executed as communism fell in Eastern Europe
- Latin America
- has received aid from the U.S. often
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- the person who controlled Iran after the Shah (king) was overthrown