federal spending
social welfare programs
New Right
conservatives vs liberals
Watergate
Jimmy Carter
Christian values
Iranian hostage crisis
domestic energy production
supply-side economics
End of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall (and Eastern European communism)
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Afghanistan
human rights
affirmative action programs
Panama Canal
worldwide shortages of oil
Religious Right
Sandra Day O'Connor
Geraldine Ferraro