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What were liberals' opinion of government intervention on social behavior?
a government which shows characteristics towards broad mindness and government involvement.
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What does the "Major Majority" refer to?
a majority of people in an area who belong to a minority group overall.
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What did Reagan promise in the Election of 1980?
Reagan promised a restoration of the nation's military strength and the immediate attack of Iran, if hostages were not released.
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What did supporters of supply-side economics think about tax cuts?
Economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce.
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What were the arguments of the critics of Reaganomics?
Economically unrewarding expenditure programs that have been in the budget, the military forts with no mission;
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What were the main components of Reagan's economic policies?
Reagan implemented policies based on supply-side economics and advocated a classical liberal and laissez-faire philosophy etc
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Who did Reagan propose to deal with the Soviet Union?
he did send paratroopers against Bernard Coard, when he overthrew the elected government
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What was Reagan's military buildup?
a proposal to move 8,000 Marines and their dependents from Okinawa, Japan to the U.S. territory in the Pacific.
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Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
was the last head of state of the USSR,
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What is the Sunbelt?
states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative.
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Why did some people oppose to the Equal Rights Amendment?
Women opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because it was against labor unions
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Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Who is Sandra Geraldine Ferraro?
was a politician, attorney and member of the House of Representatives
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What did the Iran-Contra Scandal involve?
involved a secret US operation, which used the proceeds from weapon sales to Iran to fund the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua
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What is "Live Aid"?
was held to raise money for victims of the famine in Ethiopia.
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What were the names of Gorbachev's reforms?
despite the aim of aiding economic improvement, caused an economic downfall, resulting in series of strikes.
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What happend to Boris Yeltsin?
Yeltsin struggled with alcoholism. He stepped down in 2000.
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What occured in 1989 in Tiananmen Square?
the People's Liberation Army killed hundreds of supporters, injured 10,000 more, and arrested hundreds of students.
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What event triggered that start of Persian Gulf War in 1991?
The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict was the reason for the US to start the 1991 Gulf War.
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Who ran as an independent candidate in the 1992 presidential election?
George HW Bush and Bill Clinton were the Republican and Democratic candidates in the 1992 Presidential Election.
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