chapter 26

Question 1

improving relations with this country was a big part of Reagan’s second term

Answer 1

Soviet Union

Question 2

the republican vice-presidential candidate in the 1988 election was

Answer 2

Dan Quayle

Question 3

on which issue did Bill Clinton focus when attacking Bush during the 1992 election

Answer 3

Economy

Question 4

in what part of government spending did Reagan ask for continous increases

Answer 4

military

Question 5

what country was defeated in a one-hundred-hour ground war

Answer 5

Iraq

Question 6

Bill Clinton claimed to be

Answer 6

New democrat

Question 7

balancing the budget was the least successful aspect of this

Answer 7

Reagan revolution

Question 8

what major campaign promise did George H W Bush break during his presidency

Answer 8

new taxes

Question 9

hundred of US marines killed when their barracks were attacked by terrorists in this country

Answer 9

Lebanon

Question 10

president who survived an assassination attempt

Answer 10

Ronald Reagan

Question 11

Presidential candidate who lost by a landslide in the 1984 election

Answer 11

Walter Mondale

Question 12

introduced glasnost

Answer 12

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 13

Lost in the 1988 presidential election

Answer 13

Michael Dukakis

Question 14

third party candidate in the 1992 election

Answer 14

Ross perot

Question 15

won the election of 1988

Answer 15

George H W Bush

Question 16

Iraqi dictator

Answer 16

Saddam hussein

Question 17

Allied commander in the Persian Gulf war

Answer 17

Norman Schwarzkopf

Question 18

First female vice presidential candidate for a major party

Answer 18

Geraldine Ferraro

Question 19

opposed the soviet army

Answer 19

Mujahideen

Question 20

US support of anti-communist groups throughout the world

Answer 20

Reagan doctrine

Question 21

space-based defense shield

Answer 21

SDI

Question 22

prohibited job discrimination

Answer 22

american disabilities act

Question 23

Gorbachev’s call for “restructing”

Answer 23

Perestroika

Question 24

dealt with congressional pay

Answer 24

27 amendment

Question 25

tainted Reagan’s second term and his reputation

Answer 25

Iran contra affair

Question 26

“oppenness” in Soviet society

Answer 26

Glasnost

Question 27

he remained a popular presidental throughout most of his administration

Answer 27

Ronald Reagan

Question 28

Bill Clinton was the governor of ____ before being elected president

Answer 28

Arkansas

Question 29

Legislation that prohibited discrimination against disabled individuals in the workplace

Answer 29

americans disability act

Question 30

Technical term for Reaganomics

Answer 30

supply side economics

Question 31

the two ways that this sought to enhance productivity and increase the supply of goods was cut taxes and its encouraged economic expansion by reducing government regulations

Answer 31

Reaganomics

Question 32

term for the amount of money that the government owes

Answer 32

national debt

Question 33

the code name for the military action to liberate Kuwait

Answer 33

operation desert storm

Question 34

caribbean island american sent troops during the Reagan adminstration in 1983

Answer 34

Grenada

Question 35

what is the term for the amount by which expenditures exceed income

Answer 35

Budget deficit

Question 36

code name for the united states defensive plan that sent allied forces to Saudi Arabia to prevent further Iraqi aggression

Answer 36

operation desert storm

Question 37

He orginally wrote what later became the twenty-seventh amendment

Answer 37

James Madison

Question 38

Tearing down which symbol of communism led to the eventual fall of the communist power and the soviet union

Answer 38

Berlin wall