history test 5/22

Question 1

who pardoned nixon after the watergate scandal?

Answer 1

Gerald Ford

Question 2

who did reagan defeat in 1980?

Answer 2

jimmy carter

Question 3

Iran hostage crisis

Answer 3

iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans

Question 4

stagflation/oil embargo

Answer 4

stagflation - time with high inflation and uneven economic growth

Question 5

Camp David Accords

Answer 5

israel and egypt,

• yom kippur war
• carter vs sadat
• israel gave back the Sinai penninsula

Question 6

New right

Answer 6

reagan was gonna bring back good, old america
- kkk
roe v wade brought conservatives back together because they didn’t want abortion to be legalized

Question 7

conservative coalition/moral majority

Answer 7

working middle class wihte american

Question 8

Ronald Reagan

Question 9

Assassination attempt

Question 10

entitlement programs/funding

Question 11

Reaganomics

Answer 11

trickle-down economics, tax cuts for the rich

Question 12

Supply-side economics

Answer 12

SAME THING

Question 13

strategic defense initiative (star wars)

Answer 13

???

Question 14

Sandra Day O’Connor

Answer 14

first woman to serve on the supreme court of the US

Question 15

deregulation/ price controls

Answer 15

government was a problem, stopped wellfare programs

Question 16

environmental issues

Answer 16

???

Question 17

election of 1984

Answer 17

Reagan won by a landslide

Question 18

AIDS

Answer 18

gay-disease

Question 19

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 19

1985: assumes control of soviet union - sought reforms

Question 20

glasnost

Answer 20

open soviet society

Question 21

perestroika

Answer 21

“restructuring” reform movement with the communist party

Question 22

INF treaty

Answer 22

prohibited all US and soviet missiles

Question 23

Iran-Contra

Answer 23

occured during reagan’s second term

Question 24

challenger disaster

Question 25

Berlin wall comes down

Answer 25

1989 - wall came down on the evening of a hastly arranged international press conference

Question 26

dissolution of USSR

Answer 26

reagan put US in bankruptcy and the economy fell down

Question 27

election of 1988

Answer 27

bush won

Question 28

George H.W bush

Answer 28

- persian gulf war - USA leads coalition to get Iraq out of kuwait "desert storm" - americans with disabilities act - "no new taxes" - then he had to raise taxes because due to deficit from reagan

Question 29

"Read my lips, no new taxes"

Answer 29

phrase spoken by bush at the republical national convention

Question 30

Americans with Disabilities Act

Answer 30

prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities including employment, transportation, etc.

Question 31

Persian Gulf war

Answer 31

Operation desert storm - iraq fighting with 39 other counties under US control???

Question 32

Essay topics r Reaganomics or Moral Majority

Answer 32

Reaganomics - Tax cuts for the rich, Reagan believes in trickle down economics which is a theory that taking away taxes from the rich will help benefit large companies and will put more money into the economy which will eventually help everyone