Question 1

In 1985,over two hundred American marines were killed in an explosion in

Accepted Answer

A)  Jordan. 
B)  Israel. 
C)  Pakistan. 
D)  Lebanon. 
A)  Jordan. 
B)  Israel. 
C)  Pakistan. 
D)  Lebanon.

Question 2

For this question,refer to the following excerpts,the first from a book for school children about the future and the second from a screenplay for a popular science fiction movie. Imagine you are living in the future,and are doing a project on Halley's comet.It's quite some time since it last appeared in 1986,and you want to find out when it will again be seen from Earth.You also want to know the results of a space mission to the comet,and find out what the comet is made of.
In the days when the last comet appeared,you would have had to look up Halley's comet in an encyclopedia or a book on astronomy.If you didn't possess these books,you would have gone to the library to get the information....
People still collect books as valuable antiques or for a hobby,but you get virtually all the information you need from the viewscreen of your home computer.The computer is linked to a library-not a library of books but an electronic library where information on every subject is stored in computer memory banks....
Computers will make the world of tomorrow a much safer place.They will do away with cash,so that you need no longer fear being attacked for your money.In addition,you need not worry that your home will be burgled or your car stolen.The computers in your home and car will guard them,allowing only yourself to enter or someone with your permission.
Neil Ardley,World of Tomorrow: School,Work,and Play,1981
Reese: There was a war.A few years from now.Nuclear war.The whole thing.All this- [His gesture includes the car,the city,the world.] -everything is gone.Just gone.There were survivors.Here.There.Nobody knew who started it.(pause)It was the machines.
Sarah: I don't understand ...
Reese: Defense network computer.New.Powerful.Hooked into everything.Trusted to run it all.They say it got smart ...a new order of intelligence.Then it saw all people as a threat,not just the ones on the other side.Decided our fate in a microsecond ...extermination.
Scene from screenplay by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd,Terminator,1984
The ideas expressed in the excerpts above reflect which of the following continuities in U.S.history?

Accepted Answer

A)  Debates over the benefits of technological change 
B)  Debates over the power of government 
C)  Conflicts over demographic growth and changes 
D)  Arguments over the size of defense spending 
A)  Debates over the benefits of technological change 
B)  Debates over the power of government 
C)  Conflicts over demographic growth and changes 
D)  Arguments over the size of defense spending

Question 3

Answer the following  questions :
-Reagan Democrats

Accepted Answer

A) A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author,Barry Goldwater. 
B) A conservative magazine founded in 1955 by editor William F.Buckley,who used it to criticize liberal policy. 
C) Politically active religious conservatives,especially Catholics and evangelical Christians,who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism,abortion,and homosexuality and who promoted "family values." 
D) Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution.Iranians broke into the U.S.embassy in Teheran and took sixty-six Americans hostage.The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat. 
E) A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters,middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states,blue-collar Catholics,and a large contingent of southern whites,an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.
F)A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president.
G)Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized midwestern states such as Michigan,Ohio,and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.
H)Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply)and stimulate consumption (demand)because individuals can keep more of their earnings.In reality,this economic theory created a massive federal budget deficit.
I)Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history.
J)The cumulative total of all budget deficits.
K)The limiting of regulation by federal agencies.Prices in the trucking,airline,and railroad industries faced fewer regulations under President Carter in the late 1970s,and Reagan expanded this relaxation of regulations to include cutting back on government protections of consumers,workers,and the environment.
L)A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s.
M)Term that includes food,beverage,and tourist industries,financial and medical service industries,and computer technology industries,which were the leading sectors of U.S.growth in the second half of the 1980s.This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel,autos,and chemicals.
N)The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.business interests.Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras.
O)An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist.While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to this group,a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Marines,Oliver North,used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the them,resulting in the Iran-Contra affair.
P)Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection-illegal because banned by American law-of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Q)The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
R)The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
S)Values promoted by the Religious Right,including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
T)The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory. 
A) A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author,Barry Goldwater. 
B) A conservative magazine founded in 1955 by editor William F.Buckley,who used it to criticize liberal policy. 
C) Politically active religious conservatives,especially Catholics and evangelical Christians,who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism,abortion,and homosexuality and who promoted "family values." 
D) Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution.Iranians broke into the U.S.embassy in Teheran and took sixty-six Americans hostage.The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat. 
E) A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters,middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states,blue-collar Catholics,and a large contingent of southern whites,an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.
F)A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president.
G)Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized midwestern states such as Michigan,Ohio,and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.
H)Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply)and stimulate consumption (demand)because individuals can keep more of their earnings.In reality,this economic theory created a massive federal budget deficit.
I)Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history.
J)The cumulative total of all budget deficits.
K)The limiting of regulation by federal agencies.Prices in the trucking,airline,and railroad industries faced fewer regulations under President Carter in the late 1970s,and Reagan expanded this relaxation of regulations to include cutting back on government protections of consumers,workers,and the environment.
L)A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s.
M)Term that includes food,beverage,and tourist industries,financial and medical service industries,and computer technology industries,which were the leading sectors of U.S.growth in the second half of the 1980s.This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel,autos,and chemicals.
N)The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.business interests.Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras.
O)An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist.While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to this group,a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Marines,Oliver North,used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the them,resulting in the Iran-Contra affair.
P)Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection-illegal because banned by American law-of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Q)The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
R)The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
S)Values promoted by the Religious Right,including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
T)The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory.

Question 4

Which of the following additions to the Republican platform reflected the influence of the Religious Right in 1980?

Accepted Answer

A)  A mandatory death penalty for certain crimes 
B)  Making assault weapons more difficult to obtain 
C)  Support for the Equal Rights Amendment 
D)  Protection for the rights of all religions in public schools 
A)  A mandatory death penalty for certain crimes 
B)  Making assault weapons more difficult to obtain 
C)  Support for the Equal Rights Amendment 
D)  Protection for the rights of all religions in public schools

Question 5

Iran released the American hostages and ended the long hostage crisis

Accepted Answer

A)  when President Carter agreed to lift economic sanctions against Iran. 
B)  on the day Carter left office after the 1980 presidential election. 
C)  when President Carter threatened to send commandos to rescue the hostages. 
D)  when President-Elect Reagan publicly threatened military action against the Iranian regime. 
A)  when President Carter agreed to lift economic sanctions against Iran. 
B)  on the day Carter left office after the 1980 presidential election. 
C)  when President Carter threatened to send commandos to rescue the hostages. 
D)  when President-Elect Reagan publicly threatened military action against the Iranian regime.

Question 6

Which of the following describes the New Right in 1980?

Accepted Answer

A)  The New Right was controlled by religious leader Billy Graham. 
B)  The New Right never gained any support at the federal level. 
C)  Its leaders sought a strong government to ameliorate the problem of poverty. 
D)  Its leaders opposed big government and feared declining social morality. 
A)  The New Right was controlled by religious leader Billy Graham. 
B)  The New Right never gained any support at the federal level. 
C)  Its leaders sought a strong government to ameliorate the problem of poverty. 
D)  Its leaders opposed big government and feared declining social morality.

Question 7

What new challenges did the end of the Cold War bring to American foreign policy?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Islamic

Question 8

Answer the following  questions :
-supply-side economics (Reaganomics)

Accepted Answer

A) A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author,Barry Goldwater. 
B) A conservative magazine founded in 1955 by editor William F.Buckley,who used it to criticize liberal policy. 
C) Politically active religious conservatives,especially Catholics and evangelical Christians,who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism,abortion,and homosexuality and who promoted "family values." 
D) Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution.Iranians broke into the U.S.embassy in Teheran and took sixty-six Americans hostage.The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat. 
E) A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters,middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states,blue-collar Catholics,and a large contingent of southern whites,an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.
F)A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president.
G)Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized midwestern states such as Michigan,Ohio,and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.
H)Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply)and stimulate consumption (demand)because individuals can keep more of their earnings.In reality,this economic theory created a massive federal budget deficit.
I)Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history.
J)The cumulative total of all budget deficits.
K)The limiting of regulation by federal agencies.Prices in the trucking,airline,and railroad industries faced fewer regulations under President Carter in the late 1970s,and Reagan expanded this relaxation of regulations to include cutting back on government protections of consumers,workers,and the environment.
L)A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s.
M)Term that includes food,beverage,and tourist industries,financial and medical service industries,and computer technology industries,which were the leading sectors of U.S.growth in the second half of the 1980s.This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel,autos,and chemicals.
N)The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.business interests.Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras.
O)An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist.While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to this group,a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Marines,Oliver North,used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the them,resulting in the Iran-Contra affair.
P)Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection-illegal because banned by American law-of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Q)The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
R)The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
S)Values promoted by the Religious Right,including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
T)The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory. 
A) A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author,Barry Goldwater. 
B) A conservative magazine founded in 1955 by editor William F.Buckley,who used it to criticize liberal policy. 
C) Politically active religious conservatives,especially Catholics and evangelical Christians,who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism,abortion,and homosexuality and who promoted "family values." 
D) Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution.Iranians broke into the U.S.embassy in Teheran and took sixty-six Americans hostage.The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat. 
E) A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters,middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states,blue-collar Catholics,and a large contingent of southern whites,an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.
F)A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president.
G)Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized midwestern states such as Michigan,Ohio,and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.
H)Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply)and stimulate consumption (demand)because individuals can keep more of their earnings.In reality,this economic theory created a massive federal budget deficit.
I)Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history.
J)The cumulative total of all budget deficits.
K)The limiting of regulation by federal agencies.Prices in the trucking,airline,and railroad industries faced fewer regulations under President Carter in the late 1970s,and Reagan expanded this relaxation of regulations to include cutting back on government protections of consumers,workers,and the environment.
L)A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s.
M)Term that includes food,beverage,and tourist industries,financial and medical service industries,and computer technology industries,which were the leading sectors of U.S.growth in the second half of the 1980s.This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel,autos,and chemicals.
N)The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.business interests.Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras.
O)An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist.While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to this group,a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Marines,Oliver North,used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the them,resulting in the Iran-Contra affair.
P)Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection-illegal because banned by American law-of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Q)The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
R)The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
S)Values promoted by the Religious Right,including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
T)The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory.

Question 9

American foreign policy changed dramatically as a result of President Reagan's rapport with

Accepted Answer

A)  Ayatollah Khomeini. 
B)  Mikhail Gorbachev. 
C)  Saddam Hussein. 
D)  Margaret Thatcher. 
A)  Ayatollah Khomeini. 
B)  Mikhail Gorbachev. 
C)  Saddam Hussein. 
D)  Margaret Thatcher.

Question 10

Answer the following  questions :
-Reagan coalition

Accepted Answer

A) A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author,Barry Goldwater. 
B) A conservative magazine founded in 1955 by editor William F.Buckley,who used it to criticize liberal policy. 
C) Politically active religious conservatives,especially Catholics and evangelical Christians,who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism,abortion,and homosexuality and who promoted "family values." 
D) Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution.Iranians broke into the U.S.embassy in Teheran and took sixty-six Americans hostage.The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat. 
E) A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters,middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states,blue-collar Catholics,and a large contingent of southern whites,an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.
F)A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president.
G)Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized midwestern states such as Michigan,Ohio,and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.
H)Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply)and stimulate consumption (demand)because individuals can keep more of their earnings.In reality,this economic theory created a massive federal budget deficit.
I)Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history.
J)The cumulative total of all budget deficits.
K)The limiting of regulation by federal agencies.Prices in the trucking,airline,and railroad industries faced fewer regulations under President Carter in the late 1970s,and Reagan expanded this relaxation of regulations to include cutting back on government protections of consumers,workers,and the environment.
L)A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s.
M)Term that includes food,beverage,and tourist industries,financial and medical service industries,and computer technology industries,which were the leading sectors of U.S.growth in the second half of the 1980s.This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel,autos,and chemicals.
N)The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.business interests.Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras.
O)An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist.While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to this group,a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Marines,Oliver North,used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the them,resulting in the Iran-Contra affair.
P)Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection-illegal because banned by American law-of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Q)The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
R)The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
S)Values promoted by the Religious Right,including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
T)The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory. 
A) A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author,Barry Goldwater. 
B) A conservative magazine founded in 1955 by editor William F.Buckley,who used it to criticize liberal policy. 
C) Politically active religious conservatives,especially Catholics and evangelical Christians,who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism,abortion,and homosexuality and who promoted "family values." 
D) Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution.Iranians broke into the U.S.embassy in Teheran and took sixty-six Americans hostage.The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat. 
E) A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters,middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states,blue-collar Catholics,and a large contingent of southern whites,an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.
F)A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president.
G)Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized midwestern states such as Michigan,Ohio,and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.
H)Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply)and stimulate consumption (demand)because individuals can keep more of their earnings.In reality,this economic theory created a massive federal budget deficit.
I)Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history.
J)The cumulative total of all budget deficits.
K)The limiting of regulation by federal agencies.Prices in the trucking,airline,and railroad industries faced fewer regulations under President Carter in the late 1970s,and Reagan expanded this relaxation of regulations to include cutting back on government protections of consumers,workers,and the environment.
L)A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s.
M)Term that includes food,beverage,and tourist industries,financial and medical service industries,and computer technology industries,which were the leading sectors of U.S.growth in the second half of the 1980s.This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel,autos,and chemicals.
N)The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.business interests.Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras.
O)An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist.While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to this group,a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Marines,Oliver North,used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the them,resulting in the Iran-Contra affair.
P)Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection-illegal because banned by American law-of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Q)The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
R)The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
S)Values promoted by the Religious Right,including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
T)The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory.

Question 11

Which of the following is an important conservative organizational think tank that gave institutional support to the New Right?

Accepted Answer

A)  The American Enterprise Institute 
B)  The Center for American Progress 
C)  The Progressive Policy Institute 
D)  The Century Foundation 
A)  The American Enterprise Institute 
B)  The Center for American Progress 
C)  The Progressive Policy Institute 
D)  The Century Foundation

Question 12

How would you assess the historical importance of Ronald Reagan? What were his most significant legacies,domestically and internationally? Explain your choices.

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Domesti

Question 13

In 1975,Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded

Accepted Answer

A)  Apple Corporation. 
B)  IBM. 
C)  Microsoft. 
D)  Hewlett-Packard. 
A)  Apple Corporation. 
B)  IBM. 
C)  Microsoft. 
D)  Hewlett-Packard.

Question 14

Supply-side economics,as practiced by the Reagan administration,rested on

Accepted Answer

A)  balancing the federal budget as the highest priority. 
B)  using tax cuts to stimulate investment,which would eventually result in higher tax revenues. 
C)  stimulating the national economy by increasing federal spending. 
D)  increasing the money supply with lower interest rates,which would improve the economy. 
A)  balancing the federal budget as the highest priority. 
B)  using tax cuts to stimulate investment,which would eventually result in higher tax revenues. 
C)  stimulating the national economy by increasing federal spending. 
D)  increasing the money supply with lower interest rates,which would improve the economy.

Question 15

America's main economic competitors in the world market in the 1980s were

Accepted Answer

A)  France and Australia. 
B)  West Germany and Japan. 
C)  Canada and England. 
D)  China and Mexico. 
A)  France and Australia. 
B)  West Germany and Japan. 
C)  Canada and England. 
D)  China and Mexico.

Question 16

In what ways did the New Right want to limit liberalism,and in what ways was it proactive in asserting its own agenda?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- New Rig

Question 17

How did Lee Iacocca turn Chrysler Corporation around in 1978?

Accepted Answer

A)  With scientific management 
B)  By defeating the United Auto Workers union 
C)  With a $1.5 billion loan from the federal government 
D)  By pushing through deregulation 
A)  With scientific management 
B)  By defeating the United Auto Workers union 
C)  With a $1.5 billion loan from the federal government 
D)  By pushing through deregulation

Question 18

What was the "three-legged stool" of New Right conservatism? In what ways were the three components compatible? How were they incompatible?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Free-Ma

Question 19

Which of the following issues did the New Right reject during the 1980 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)  Banning abortion 
B)  Permitting voluntary school prayer 
C)  Opposing the Equal Rights Amendment 
D)  Increasing federal spending on social welfare programs 
A)  Banning abortion 
B)  Permitting voluntary school prayer 
C)  Opposing the Equal Rights Amendment 
D)  Increasing federal spending on social welfare programs

Question 20

The Moral Majority favored

Accepted Answer

A)  the Equal Rights Amendment. 
B)  a ban on abortion. 
C)  welfare payments for single mothers. 
D)  court-mandated busing. 
A)  the Equal Rights Amendment. 
B)  a ban on abortion. 
C)  welfare payments for single mothers. 
D)  court-mandated busing.

Exam 29: Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

In 1985,over two hundred American marines were killed in an explosion in

Answer the following questions : -Reagan Democrats

Which of the following additions to the Republican platform reflected the influence of the Religious Right in 1980?

Iran released the American hostages and ended the long hostage crisis

Which of the following describes the New Right in 1980?

What new challenges did the end of the Cold War bring to American foreign policy?

Answer the following questions : -supply-side economics (Reaganomics)

American foreign policy changed dramatically as a result of President Reagan's rapport with

Answer the following questions : -Reagan coalition

Which of the following is an important conservative organizational think tank that gave institutional support to the New Right?

How would you assess the historical importance of Ronald Reagan? What were his most significant legacies,domestically and internationally? Explain your choices.

In 1975,Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded

Supply-side economics,as practiced by the Reagan administration,rested on

America's main economic competitors in the world market in the 1980s were

In what ways did the New Right want to limit liberalism,and in what ways was it proactive in asserting its own agenda?

How did Lee Iacocca turn Chrysler Corporation around in 1978?

What was the "three-legged stool" of New Right conservatism? In what ways were the three components compatible? How were they incompatible?

Which of the following issues did the New Right reject during the 1980 presidential election?

The Moral Majority favored

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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