Chapter 40&41 Test Flashcards
In the 1980 election
third-party candidate John Anderson won three states and seventeen Electoral College votes
The New Right movement that helped to elect Ronald Reagan was spearheaded by
evangelical Christians
Ronald Reagan differed from Franklin D. Roosevelt in that Roosevelt
branded big business as the enemy of the common man, while Reagan depicted big government as the foe
Before being elected president, Ronald Reagan’s experience i elected public office had been as
governor of California
The strong tax revolt against extensive government programs and spending was spurred by the passage of Proposition 13 that severely limited property taxes in
California
President Ronald Reagan and the new British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, shared all of the following goals except
enhancing the role of religion in public life
Conservative Democrats who helped Ronald Reagan to pass his budget and tax-cutting legislation were called
boll weevils
One consequence of the record-high deficits and high interest rates of the 1980s was
a soaring value for the dollar
To President Reagan, “the focus of evil in the modern world”
the Soviet Union
The first woman to receive the vice-presidential nomination of a major political party was
Geraldine Ferraro
The Iran-Contra Affair essentially invovled
selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and using the profits to illegally fund the Nicaraguan Contras
Many of the movement conservatives of the new religious right gained political effectiveness by imitating the methods of
the 1960s New Left
Solidarity was
a massive working-class labor union of Polish dissidents
In response to the collapse of the Soviet Union, President George Bush called for a “new world order” where
democracy would reign supreme and diplomacy would replace weaponry
The result of the Persian Gulf War was that
Kuwait was liberated but Saddam Hussein stayed in power
In the beginning of the Clinton administration, First Lady Hillary Clinton was heavily criticized for
developing an excessively complex health care plan that was quickly dropped by Congress
The Branch Davidians were a(n)
fundamentalist sect assaulted by the federal government
Bill Clinton’s primary political advantage throughout his two terms of office was
the tremendously prosperous economy
The two articles of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives against President Clinton charged him with
perjury and misuse of federal office facilities
Which of the following was not among the polarizing conservative policies that George W. Bush pursued when he assumed the presidency?
appointing extreme conservatives to the Supreme Court
The new cabinet-level agency charged with protecting America against foreign terrorist attacks was the
Department of Homeland Security
The USA-Patriot Act provided for, among other things
the detention and deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism
Among Bush’s advisers who pushed most strongly for the invasion of Iraq were
Vice President Richard Cheney and administration neoconservatives.
In June 2004, the United States handed over ____ to the new interim government of Iraq
political power and limited sovereignty
Violent resistance to the American presence in Iraq escalated when
it was revealed that some American soldiers had humiliated Iraqi captives in the Abu Ghraib prison
