1980's

Reagan's plan to fix stagflation; lowered taxes for businesses

• Reaganomics
• Federal Deficit
• Mazzoli-Simpson Act
• The Reagan Doctrine

When the government spends more money than it collects in taxes

• Federal surplus
• The Reagan Doctrine
• Peace Through Strength
• Federal deficit

Reagan's policy to not just contain Communism but try to lessen it

• Peace Through Strength
• Iran-Contra Affair
• The Reagan Doctrine
• The Moral Majority

When officials in the Reagan Administration sold arms to terrorists in exchange for hostages from Iran

• Iran War
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Iran a Race
• Iran-Contra Affair

Event that took place after Reagan's presidency; ended 45 years of war!

• End of WW1
• End of WW2
• End of the Cold War
• End of the Revolutionary War

Christian group that supported Reagan's presidency

• The Moral Majority
• National Rifle Association
• The Heritage Foundation

Group of gun-owners who supported Reagan's presidency

• The Moral Majority
• National Rifle Association
• The Heritage Foundation

President Ronald Reagan supported supply-side economics through reduced tax rates to 

• encourage economic growth
• create more public-works jobs
• increase government regulation of business
• decrease defense spending

In the Iran-Contra affair, the Reagan administration
 

• used earnings from weapons sales to Iran to fund the Contras
• paid the Contras to release Americans being held hostage in Iran
• secretly hired Iranian agents to fight against the Contras
• hired Lebanese agents to rescue Iranians being held by the Contras.

Why were President George H.W. Bush and his administration concerned about Iraq’s military aggression prior to the Persian Gulf War?

• They thought the aggression would start an Arab uprising.
• They thought the aggression would threaten the sovereignty of Israel
• They thought the aggression would threaten the Saudi Arabian oil reserves.
• The thought the aggression would spread radical Islam throughout the Middle East.