George Bush Flashcards
(35 cards)
Name five areas that were still problematic during/after the Reagan years.
budget deficits ballooning, a Wall Street scandal, a banking crisis, a crack epidemic, an urban crime wave.
Who was the chief beneficiary of Reagan’s legacy?
George H.W. Bush.
Who was the last Soviet leader of the U.S.S.R?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What is Perestroika?
The soviet economy.
What is Glasnost?
Political restraints.
What is Glasnost?
Political restraints.
What part of the world had confounded every U.S. President since Truman?
The Middle East.
What caused a crisis in the Middle East in 1990?
raq’s invasion of Kuwait.
What was Operation Desert Shield?
A defensive move to protect Saudi Arabia.
Why was it important to protect Saudi oil fields from Iraq?
the Saudi’s controlled 40% of the worlds oil fields.
Who was Saddam Hussein’s role model?
Joseph Stalin.
What was Operation Desert Storm?
A war to get Iraq out of Kuwait.
How many Vice-Presidents have become President?
Fourteen.
Why did Martin Van Buren have only one term in office?
The bad state of the economy.
What was the coalition’s three goals in the air war phase against Iraq?
The coalition’s goal was to destroy Iraq’s ability to launch attacks; eliminate Iraq’s biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons facilities; and reduce Iraq’s ability to defend itself.
What was the goal of Iraq’s launching of Scud Missiles against Israel? (
To draw Israel into the war.
What was the U.N.’s terms of action against Iraq?
Use all necessary means to expel Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq does not withdraw by January 15, 1991.
Name two people who were in power in the wake of the September 11 attacks of the World Trade Center and what their positions were in Gulf War I and then in Gulf War II.
Colin Powell: chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War, then secretary of state under George W. Bush; Dick Cheney, the secretary of defense during the Gulf War, was now Bush’s vice president.
Who rebelled against the Iraqi government with an understanding of American support?
The Kurds and the Shiites.
What three issues did Iraq agree to in the formal cease-fire agreement?
Iraq agreed to the destruction of all its biological and chemical weapons, its facilities for producing such weapons, and any facilities or materials it might have for producing nuclear weapons.
What were Patriot missiles?
defensive weapons known for their ability to take down scud missiles.
Name one other military victory that Bush had before the Gulf War.
the dissolution of the evil empire.
Why did unemployment surge in the Bush administration?
the feds high interest rates.
Why did the Fed raise interest rates during the Bush years?
to wring out inflation.
