Chapter 25&26

Question 1

Democratic government under Duarte that got supplies from the United States

Answer 1

El Salvador

Question 2

Caribbean nation liberated from a Communist by U.S. forces

Answer 2

Grenada

Question 3

Anti-Communist forces under Savimbi that got supplies from the United States

Answer 3

Angola

Question 4

Nation where Soviet forces fought the mujahideen, and the mujahideen resisted Soviet occupation for ten years

Answer 4

Afghanistan

Question 5

Nation where terrorists attacked the U.S. Marine barracks

Answer 5

Lebanon

Question 6

Country that the United States bombed in response to terrorists attacks

Answer 6

Libya

Question 7

Defeated in a hundred-hour war

Answer 7

Iraq

Question 8

Only Vice President to resign for criminal reasons

Answer 8

Spiro Agnew

Question 9

Only president to resign

Answer 9

Richard Nixon

Question 10

Only unelected president

Answer 10

Gerald Ford

Question 11

Ineffective “people’s president”

Answer 11

Jimmy Carter

Question 12

Pro-West Shah of Iran

Answer 12

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Question 13

Fanatical Islamic extremist

Answer 13

Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 14

Charismatic leader of the Religious Right

Answer 14

Pat Robertson

Question 15

Controversial Baptist leader of the Religious Right

Answer 15

Jerry Falwell

Question 16

Winner of the 1980 presidential election, Republican president who revived patriotism

Answer 16

Ronald Reagan

Question 17

Centerpiece of Reaganomics

Answer 17

Economic Recovery Tax Act

Question 18

U.S. support of anti-Communist insurgents

Answer 18

Reagan Doctorine

Question 19

Reduction in the size of long-range nuclear weapons arsenals

Answer 19

START

Question 20

Elimination of medium-range nuclear weapons arsenals

Answer 20

INF Treaty

Question 21

Space-based defense shield

Answer 21

SDI

Question 22

First opposed and then signed by Bush

Answer 22

Americans With Disabilities Act

Question 23

Originally drafted by James Madison

Answer 23

Twenty-seventh Amendment

Question 24

Essentially a clandestine guns-for-hostages deal

Answer 24

Iran-Contra Affair

Question 25

"Openness" in Soviet society

Answer 25

Glasnost

Question 26

Cause of President Nixon's resignation

Answer 26

Watergate affair

Question 27

Cause of President Ford's unpopularity

Answer 27

Nixon Pardon

Question 28

OPEC's attempt to hurt the U.S. economy

Answer 28

Oil Embargo

Question 29

Attack on abortion laws

Answer 29

Roe V. Wade

Question 30

Support for feminism

Answer 30

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 31

Agreement between Egypt and Israel

Answer 31

Camp David Accords

Question 32

Failed agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union

Answer 32

SALT II Treaty

Question 33

Affected United States territory in Central America

Answer 33

Panama Canal Treaty

Question 34

Cause of President Carter's unpopularity

Answer 34

Iranian hostage crisis

Question 35

Liberal democrat who lost by a landslide in the 1984 presidential election

Answer 35

Walter Mondale

Question 36

Soviet leader who introduced glasnost

Answer 36

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 37

Republican vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1988

Answer 37

Dan Quayle

Question 38

The hand-picked successor of Reagan

Answer 38

George Bush -HW Bush

Question 39

Militaristic Iraqi dictator

Answer 39

Saddam Hussein

Question 40

Allied commander in the Gulf War

Answer 40

Norman Schwarzkopf

Question 41

Technical term for Reagan's economic philosophy

Answer 41

Supply side economics

Question 42

Anti-Sandinista guerillas in Nicaragua

Answer 42

Contras

Question 43

Walter Mondale's vice-presidential running mate

Answer 43

Geraldine Ferraro

Question 44

The Russian term for "restructuring"

Answer 44

Perestroika

Question 45

The project, Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, was also known by another name.

Answer 45

Star Wars

Question 46

Label Bill Clinton coined for himself in the 1992 campaign by backing away from big government , high taxes, and free spending

Answer 46

New Democrats

Question 47

President Ford's main weapon in his standoff with Congress

Answer 47

Veto

Question 48

Term was applied to the combination of high energy prices and oil shortages in the 1970's

Answer 48

Energy Crisis

Question 49

Economists say this happens when simultaneous occurrence of high inflation and high unemployment

Answer 49

Stagflation

Question 50

Result when a nation imports more than it exports

Answer 50

Trade deficit

Question 51

Faction driven by social and moral issues to join the traditional conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Answer 51

New Right

Question 52

Essay: Explain why President Nixon resigned.

Answer 52

The Supreme Court ruled that Nixon must release all the taped conversations from his office. The previously unreleased tapes showed that although the president had known about the watergate break in beforehand, he had participated in attempts to cover up the involvement of his White House subordinates. With impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate a virtual certainty in the Democrat controlled Congress, Nixon chose to resign.

Question 53

Essay: State two ways that Reaganomics sought to enhance productivity and increase the supply of goods.

Answer 53

1. Reaganomics cut taxes so that citizens would have incentive to earn, save, and invest. 2. Reaganomics encouraged economic expansion by reducing government regulations on business and by providing corporate tax breaks.

Question 54

What was the Carter Doctorine?

Answer 54

U.S. would resist any Soviet advances in the Persian Gulf region.

Question 55

Main concern of Americans in the 1970s?

Answer 55

State of the economy.

Question 56

What new issue caused people to join....?

Answer 56

Abortion

Question 57

What factor... worsening energy crisis...

Answer 57

Environmental Movement

Question 58

In what aspect of Reagan Revolution was he least successful

Answer 58

Balancing budget