New Right: right-wing political groups or policies in different countries.

It has also been used to

describe the emergence of Eastern European parties after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

Affirmative action  the allocation of resources or employment) the practice or policy of favoring
individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.

Moral Majority a political action group formed in the 1970s to further a conservative and religious
agenda, including the allowance of prayer in schools and strict laws against abortion.

Reaganomics the economic policies of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated
especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity.

Deregulation the removal of regulations or restrictions, especially in a particular industry.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) independent executive agency of the United States federal
government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the
establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed
an executive order. 

Entitlement programs a government program that guarantees certain benefits to a particular group
or segment of the population

Glasnost the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of
information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.

Perestroika Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union during the 1980s widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his
glasnost policy reform.

INF Treaty The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an arms control treaty between the
United States and the Soviet Union. US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty on 8 December 1987. 

1. Sandinistas a member of a left-wing Nicaraguan political organization, the Sandinista

National Liberation Front (FSLN), which came to power in 1979 after overthrowing the
dictator Anastasio Somoza. Opposed during most of their period of rule by the US-backed
Contras, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990.
1. Contras a member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that opposed the left-wing Sandinista
government 1979–90, and was supported by the US for much of that time. It was officially
disbanded in 1990, after the Sandinistas' electoral defeat.
Operation Desert Storm The Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by
the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from
oil pricing and production disputes.