810 Q2 - Changing Frontiers Flashcards
What accident spilled millions of gallons of oil along the coast of Alaska?
Exxon Valdez
who was the president who took responsibility for the Iran-Contra affair?
Ronald Reagan
On what date did the Berlin wall fall?
November 9, 1989
Who was the President who met with the Soviet leader to discuss reducing nuclear stockpiles
Ronald Reagan
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
The defense program intended to shoot down missiles before they reached the United States was what?
Strategic Defense Initiative
What was the ground invasion that forced Iraq to leave Kuwait and give up it biological and chemical weapons?
Operation Desert Storm
The US sold weapons to Iran and gave some of the money from the sales to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua in what became known as what?
The Iran-Contra Affair
Who was the leader of Panama who was deposed by the United States?
Manuel Noriega
Soviet policy that reduced secrecy in the government
glasnost
Who was the President who previously was director of the CIA?
George H. W. Bush
Soviet policy that encouraged free enterprise
perestroika
What is used to hurt a nations economy and force it to do something against its will?
economic sanctions (or “Sanctions”)
How did Reagan first deal with economic crisis?
By lowering taxes
What is a situation in which a country imports more than it exports?
Trade deficit
Who was the leader of Iraq who invaded Kuwait?
Saddam Hussein
The EPA believed that what was destroying the ozone shield?
CFCs
U.S Citizens in the middle east became targets of terrorism because of the United States support of what country?
Israel
What do they say in San Francisco?
“Toodle-loo”!
What limited the amount of pollution that could be released into the atmosphere?
The Clean Air Act Amendment
Who was the first Woman to serve on the Supreme court?
Sandra Day O’Conner
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait began what war?
Persian Gulf War
Who was the terrorist responsible for the bombing in Oklahoma City?
Timothy McVeigh
What is the theory that businesses and the economy will grow if taxes are lowered?
Reaganomics
What was the agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada?
NAFTA
Who was the second President to be impeached and aquitted?
Bill Clinton
