Chapter 31

Question 1

Jimmy Carter and Inflation

Answer 1

Carter was intelligent but he didn’t know how to direction the government. Carver spent a ton of time with the problems of energy and the economy. He reduced unemployment by raising public spending and cutting federal taxes. Unemployment declined but inflation soared because of the increase of light and oil prices.

Question 2

What did Carter blame.

Answer 2

he blamed the American people for his own problems.

Question 3

What did Carter do with the Panama Canal?

Answer 3

He turned it over to the government of Panama.

Question 4

What was Carters greatest achievement?

Answer 4

his success in arraigning a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The treaty is know as the Camp David Accords

Question 5

What was the rise of the “Sunbelt”?

Answer 5

The locations of Southeast(Florida) , The Southwest(Texas) , and above all, Cali, which became the nations most populous state.

Question 6

What was the Sagebrush Rebellion?

Answer 6

it mobilized conservative opposition to environmental laws and restrictions on development.

Question 7

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Answer 7

Shah Feld the country of Iran and went to the US to get treatment for cancer and then an armed militant seized the diplomats and military personnel inside and demanded shah in exchange for the peoples freedom. 53 Americans remained hostage for over a year.

Question 8

Whats the Moral Morality?

Answer 8

It attacks the rise of secular humanism, which is the rejection of religion in American culture.

Question 9

What was Proposition 13?

Answer 9

citizen tax

Question 10

Ronald Reagans election.

Answer 10

He promised to cut taxes and to restore strength and pride to america.

Question 11

Ronald Reagans political coalition

Answer 11

He needed a wealthy group of men, needed a group of intellectuals known as Neo- Conservatives.

Question 12

Reaganomics

Answer 12

Reagan promised to restore the economy with an experiment known as supply side economics or, to some, Reaganomics. which was to reduce taxes with benefits to corporations and wealthy individuals, in order to encourage new investments.

Question 13

inflation and growth

Answer 13

the economy recovered faster then originally, Inflation had fallen below 5 percent. The economy continued to grow and inflation and unemployment remained low.

Question 14

SDI

Answer 14

This would use lasers or shields to protect america from missiles and make nuclear war obsolete.

Question 15

Reagan Doctrine

Answer 15

this would support opponents of communism anywhere in the world.

Question 16

The fall of the Soviet Union

Answer 16

when the soviet union got a new leader and the public just started rebelling and communist died, which made every other communist country around them change.

Question 17

The invasion of Kuwait

Answer 17

Bush agreed to lead other nations to forced Iraq out of Kuwait. Iraq did not leave and it was time for war, which made the gulf war.