| The ruling group in Nicaragua that followed
Communist policies in the 1980s and then
lost power in free elections held in 1990. |
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| Democratic candidate Walter Mondale became
the first presidential candidate of a major
political party to choose a women as his
running mate in 1984. She was a Congresswoman
from New York . |
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| Ronald Reagan's controversial Secretary of
the Interior, he outraged environmentalists
by opening federal lands to unlimited access
by coal and timber companies. |
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| This illegal conspiracy of the Reagan administration
provided funding for anti-Communist rebels
in Nicaragua by secretly selling missiles
to the Ayatollah Koumeini's government and
diverting the money to the Nicaraguan rebels. |
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| The policy of reducing taxes in order to
leave business with more money to invest
in productive enterprises. |
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| When air traffic controllers of this union
went on strike in 1981, President Reagan
fired them and decertified their union. |
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| In 1983, 241 Marines were killed here in
a terrorist bombing of their barracks. |
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| Nicaraguan rebel group supported by the Reagan
administration who tried to overthrow the
Sandinista government. |
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| On October 19, 1987 the Stock Market crashed
and fell over 500 points, the largest one-day
drop in its history to that point. |
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| President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev signed this major arms limitation
treaty in 1987 which provided for the dismantling
of all short-range and intermediate-range
missiles in Europe. |
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| U. S. troops invaded this tiny Caribbean
island and overthrew its leftist government
and replaced it with a more pro-American
government. |
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| In 1985, President Reagan paid a prearranged
visit to a cemetery here where Nazi SS troops
were buried. It created a public relations
backlash, but the President went anyway. |
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| She was the first woman Justice appointed
to the Supreme Court. |
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| Better known as "Star Wars", this
was an attempt by the Reagan administration
to create a missile defense system that would
use some type of laser technology in space
to ward off incoming missiles. Opponents
criticized the program as too costly and
a science fiction fantasy. |
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| In the spring of 1986, President Reagan ordered
American planes to bomb military bases in
this oil-rich country in retaliation for
terrorist acts against U. S. citizens. |
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