Unit 9

Question 1

What was the crowning achievement of Conservatism?

Answer 1

The election of Ronald Reagan

Question 2

Why was Jimmy Carter’s presidency disliked?

Answer 2

It was makred by stagflation, the Iran hostage crisis, and the oil crisis

Question 3

What did Reagan’s campaign stand for?

Answer 3

-Cold War conservatism
-Economically pro-business
-Moral and religious conservatism

Question 4

What was Reagan’s economic philosophy of supply-side economics?

Answer 4

Believed that economic prosperity could be achieved through tax cuts and decreased federal spending

Question 5

What was the Economic Recovery Act (1981)?

Answer 5

Cut income taxes by 25% over the next three years

Question 6

What was deregulation?

Answer 6

In which Reagan issued a lot of policies that favored business over environment

Question 7

Why was Reagan’s presidency important?

Answer 7

It was a fundamental rejection of the liberalism that dominated the 60s and 70s

Question 8

When did Gorbachev become the leader of the Soviet Union?

Answer 8

1985

Question 9

What were Gorbachev’s reforms?

Answer 9

-Glasnost, bring more political freedom to Soviet citizens
-Perestroika, bringing in some free-market aspects to the Soviet economy

Question 10

What is the Reagan Doctrine?

Answer 10

The US would support any regime that was anticommunist

Question 11

What did the Reagan Doctrine mandate?

Answer 11

US involvement in Nicaragua and the Iran Contra Affair

Question 12

How did Reagan seek to end the Cold War via the buildup of nuclear and conventional weapons?

Answer 12

-B1 bomber
-MX missile
-Expansion of US navy
-Strategic Defense Initiative (Satallites that could shoot lasers)

Question 13

When did the Soviet Union fall?

Answer 13

1991

Question 14

What was the Start 1 Treaty?

Answer 14

The US and Russia agreed to reduce ther number of nuclear warheads they possessed

Question 15

What started the Digital Revolution?

Answer 15

-Development of the computer
-Development of microprocessors
-Apple created a computer for use in the home
-IBM followed suit with the creation of the PC
-Creation of the internet

Question 16

How did the internet impact the work and home life?

Answer 16

-Email became a replacement for letters
-Easier and quicker forms of file sharing was cool and altered the music industry

Question 17

How did the Digital Revolution impact the economy?

Answer 17

-Led to an increase in productivity
-Did not lead to the increase in standards of living expected

Question 18

How did the nature of work change in America?

Answer 18

Manufacturing decreased while private service providing increased

Question 19

What sector came to replace the manufacturing sector?

Answer 19

Service sector

Question 20

What international migration pattern continued into this period?

Answer 20

Migration to the Sun Belt states

Question 21

Where did external immigrants come from during this period?

Answer 21

-Latin Americans came to the US for agricultural work
-Asians and Middle Easterns also came

Question 22

What was the impact of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?

Answer 22

Immigrants started to become more than the native born population

Question 23

What happened on September 11, 2001?

Answer 23

Members of the Al-Qaeda coordinated an attack on the twin towers and a Pentagon

Question 24

What was the War on Terror, as coined by Bush?

Answer 24

Demanded that the Taliban government hand over Osama bin Laden and when denied, Bush sent troops to find him themselves

Question 25

What was Operation Iraqi Freedom?

Answer 25

Intended to overthrow Hussein’s government because it was alleged that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks and that he was developed weapons of mass destruction

Question 26

What did the Patriots Acts do?

Answer 26

Allow the government to observe over more aspects of its citizens’ lives