end of the cold war

Question 1

occupational safety health administration
needs many employees
checks businesses for anything that could be potentially dangerous

Answer 1

OSHA

Question 2

punished us for supporting israel

increased our cost of oil (4x higher prices)

Answer 2

OPEC

Question 3

clean air/ water acts
endangered species act
three mile island

Answer 3

EPA

Question 4

either you agree or don’t

make decisions best for country, regardless morals/ ethics

Answer 4

realpolitik

Question 5

table-top competition
sent americans over
huge news
nixon opened new doors w china

Answer 5

ping pong diplomacy

Question 6

agree to limit most dangerous missiles

missile reduction

Answer 6

SALT

Question 7

illegal activity to win 72 election
5 men installed listening deceives 
nixon kept an enemy’s list because of paranoia
had been listening for years
heard gossip and strategy
got caught by leaving door open
caught with all materials

Answer 7

watergate

Question 8

1979 soviet union invades
sent military supplies
cold war on fire again
used gorilla tactics 
hard war to fight 
soviets were there until 1990
neighboring countries offered to help fight russians 
osama bin laden became corrupt

Answer 8

afghanistan

Question 9

make decisions based on moral interests, not self interests

Answer 9

human rights

Question 10

presidential retreat
met w sedot (egypt) and megan (iran)
argued about biblical things and territories
negotiation lasted 12 days: will be no war
both men shit over this peace meeting

Answer 10

camp david accords

Question 11

began building new nuclear reactors

oil spill occurred

Answer 11

three miles island

Question 12

52 americans taken hostage 
their previous leader had been overthrown 
not even close to getting hostages back
millitary attempt 
2 planes crashed 
held hostage for 444 days 
carter has no chance of re-election
let hostages go right as reagan has taken his hand off the bible

Answer 12

iran hostage crisis

Question 13

referring to republican side
expansion of gov
helped out by religious groups

Answer 13

new right

Question 14

religion helped

Answer 14

moral majority

Question 15

took gov out of economic decisions
cut taxes as much as possible
deregulation cut gov oversight
cut spending

Answer 15

reganomics

Question 16

freedom

hurt reagan in the end

Answer 16

glasnost

Question 17

economic changes
increased trade
decrease military spending

Answer 17

perestroika

Question 18

americans taken hostage in lebanon for iran
reagan negotiates; offered to buy weapons for the hostages
assisted both sides of the war
huge influx in money.. sent to contras for Nicaragua… became scandal
reagan

Answer 18

iran contra affair

Question 19

vice president
head of repub party
director of CIA
ambassador of china

Answer 19

bush’s qualifications

Question 20

peaceful protest for democracy
Beijing
to disperse crowd, military cane and open fired
1 student stood in front of tanks attempting to stop them
bush

Answer 20

tianamen square

Question 21

quick
meant to get sadam out of kuwait
used best technology

Answer 21

persian golf war

Question 22

US part of persian golf war

victory for bush

Answer 22

operation desert storm

Question 23

bush’s slogan

broke it and raised taxes

Answer 23

“read my lips no new taxes”

Question 24

gov spends money to jumpstart economy

Answer 24

keynesian economics

Question 25

justify dropping bombs on libya

reagan

Answer 25

berlin nightclub bombing

Question 26

bad

major criticism

Answer 26

bushs economy

Question 27

trickle down

same as reaganomics

Answer 27

supply-side economics

Question 28

very wealthy businessman
decided last minute to run for pres
1 issue was the economy
much closer to republican beliefs than democrat
stole votes that would have gone to bush

Answer 28

ross perot

Question 29

requires FBI background check to buy firearms

Answer 29

brady bill

Question 30

new leader of russia

announced russians would no longer support nations of soviet union

Answer 30

mikhail gorbachev