Chapter 31 Flashcards
In the 1970s, Americans experienced the “age of limits,” a period of lowered expectations characterized by all of the following problems except
loss of hope
Among the major accomplishments of the Ford administration was
the signing of an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union
One of the major contributing factors to the rising inflation of the Ford administration during the 1970s was
dependence on foreign oil supplies
Contenders for the presidency in 1976 included all of the following except
John Anderson
By the end of the Carter administration, the economy was plagued by all of the following economic conditions except
unemployment in excess of 10 percent
In his “malaise” speech, Jimmy Carter said that
America should give foreign aid to the Arab countries and attempt to form political alliances with the oil-producing countries
President Carter’s diplomatic efforts in relieving the tensions between Egypt and Israel resulted in
a formal peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
From the 1950s until the 1970s, U.S. policy toward Iran emphasized
political and military support of the Shah
In response to the Iranian hostage crisis, President Carter took the action of
negotiating the release of the hostages after more than a year of captivity
The conservative populists of the Southeast and Southwest that rose to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s supported all of the following political concepts except
commitment to the protection of minority rights
The conservative resurgence of the late 1970s was strongest in the state of
California
Well-known evangelical Christians of the 1970s and 1980s included all of the following men except
Edward Kennedy
The “Christian right” of the late 1970s and early 1980s opposed all of the following ideas except
the censorship of pornography
As the New Right developed in the 1970s and 1980s, it opposed the activities of men such as
Gerald Ford
In the battle over Proposition 13 during the late 1970s, California conservatives discovered the effective new political tactic of attacking
taxes
The election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980 signaled a change in American politics that was also evident in
Republican control of the Senate
During his years as president, Ronald Reagan exhibited all of the following traits except
a well-informed administrator who knew his policies and programs in great detail
“Reaganomics,” or “supply-side” economics, operated from the assumption that the woes of the American economy were largely the result of
excessive taxation
Economic recovery during 1983 was a result of all of the following developments except
increased interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board
President Reagan sought to achieve deficit reduction by lowering “discretionary” domestic spending
for food stamps and federal subsidies for low-income housing
The Reagan doctrine of American activism in the Third World was most particularly exercised in
Grenada and Nicaragua
n the late 1980s and early 1990s, the dominant factor in foreign affairs was
the ending of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union
