Exam 14: Uncertain Times 1974-1992

"stagflation" Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")

Supply-side economics​

Jimmy Carter won a decisive victory in the election of 1976.

"Hispanic" is a term that simply means Mexican American.

Which of the following is not a true statement about Gerald Ford?

During his second year in office,Jimmy Carter extended amnesty to those who had resisted the draft during the Vietnam War.

In December 1989,U.S.forces entered what Latin American nation in order to arrest its president?

Operation Desert Shield

To address the struggling economy,Gerald Ford's _________________ program included cuts in spending and a temporary increase in income taxes​.

The Reagan administration believed that democratic forces included almost any movement,no matter how autocratic,that was noncommunist.

Camp David Peace Talks of 1978

President George H.Bush opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement.

____________________ became the most important women's organization.

The space-based defense system promoted by Ronald Reagan,which supposedly would stop incoming missiles,was popularly dubbed ____________________.

Cesar Chavez was a key leader in the agricultural Mexican American movement.

The Persian Gulf War resulted from Iraq's invasion of ____________________.

When he ran for president in 1976,Jimmy Carter asked voters,"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

George Bush failed to keep one of his most important 1988 campaign pledges⎯the pledge of "no new taxes."

Examine the foreign policy of President Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan's impact on the federal judicial system can best be described as