Conservative Resurgence 1980-2000

Various conservative voter groups that grew in strength in the 1980s

• Moral Majority

• New Right

• Reaganomics

• Contras

Conservative religious political organization founded in 1979

• New Right

• Moral Majority

• Reaganomics

• Solidarity

Economic program based on large tax cuts to encourage business investment

• Glasnot

• Supply-Side Economics

• Solidarity

• Reaganomics

Theory stating that tax cuts would lead to increased economic activity and tax revenues, and a balanced budget

• Supply-Side Economics

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Reaganomics

• Gramm-Rudman-Hollins Act

Plan for a system in space to protect the United States from Soviet Missiles

• Gramm-Rudman-Hollins Act

• Perestroika

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Operation Desert Storm

Law that required the government to cut spending when the deficit grows above a certain level

• Gramm-Rudman-Hollins Act

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Insider Trading

1980s scandal where the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons in exchange for the release of hostages in Lebanon

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Operation Desert Storm

• American-Lebanon Deal

Soviet Policy established in the 1980s that promoted political openness and freedom of expression

• Soviet Civil Rights Act

• Glasnot

• Perestroika

• New Right

Revolutionary political party in Nicaragua that overthrew a pro-U.S. dictator in 1979

• New Right

• Contras

• Sandanistas

• Challengers

Rebel army in Nicaragua that was supported by the Reagan Administration

• Contras

• Guerilla Army

• Perestroika

• New Right