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Question 1

Entitlement programs

Answer 1

Programs that provided guaranteed benefits to particular groups, was nearly 300 million annually

Question 2

Who ran for president in 1964?

Answer 2

Senator Barry Goldwater

Question 3

New Right

Answer 3

Groups across the country engaging to support and promote single issues that reflected their key interests, focused on controversial social issues, such as opposing abortion and blocking the Equal Rights amendment

Question 4

Affirmative action

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(new right did not like this) required employers and educational institutions to give special consideration to women, African Americans, and other minority groups even if they don’t have the qualifications for it.

Question 5

Reverse discrimination

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Was seen as a form of affirmative action, favoring one group over the other due to race or gender

Question 6

Conservative coalition

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An alliance of business leaders, middle class voters, disaffected Democrats, and fundamentalist Christian groups. Religion especially christianity helped this grow

Question 7

Televangalists

Answer 7

Televangelists - Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson

Question 8

Moral Majority

Answer 8

Jerry Falwell created the Moral Majority which consisted mostly of fundamentalists and evangelical christians who took the bible literally believing in absolute standards of right and wrong.

Question 9

Ronald Reagan

Answer 9

Republican nominee for president that lost to Gerald Ford, four years later he got nominated against carter, he chose bush to run with him

Question 10

Why did Reagan win against Carter?

Answer 10

Bad dealing with iranian hostage crisis, high levels of inflation, and the general weak economy

Question 11

What did Reagan strive to do?

Answer 11

Lower taxes, traditional values, and less government.

Question 12

Reaganomics

Answer 12

budget cuts, tax cuts, and increased defense spending

Question 13

How did Regan downsize the government?

Answer 13

Cutting spending of social programs as well as deregulation.

Question 14

Deregulation

Answer 14

Deregulation - the cutting back of federal regulation of industry. Removed price control from oil, eliminated federal health and safety inspections, deregulated airline industry and the savings and loan industries.

Question 15

Supply-side economics

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Supply-side economics - If people paid fewer taxes, they would save more money. Then banks could loan more money to businesses, which could invest their money in resources to improve productivity. Supply of goods would increase, driving prices down.

Question 16

EPA

Answer 16

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) - Reagan cut the budget as another step for deregulation which has been established to fight pollution and conserve natural resources

Question 17

Who were the voters that approved of Reagan’s policies?

Answer 17

Who were the voters that approved of Reagan’s policies?
Business people, Southerners, westerners, and Reagan Democrats who supported deregulation and less control in the government

Question 18

1984 elections

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Walter Mondale ran as the democratic nominee for elections and chose Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. The first woman on a major presidential ticket.

Question 19

1988 Elections

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Michael Dukakis ran against George Bush but many didn’t see a reason for change. Bush ran with the slogan no new taxes and a kindler and gentler nation even though his campaign supported many negative attack ads to his opponent.

Question 20

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev - General secretary of the communist party in the Soviet Union

Question 21

Glasnost

Answer 21

Glasnost - means openness in russian, allowing open criticism of the Soviet government and took steps toward freedom of the press

Question 22

Perestroika

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Perestroika - a restructuring of Soviet society. He called for less government control of the economy, the introduction of some private enterprise, and steps toward establishing a democratic government.

Question 23

INF Treaty

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INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty) - signed on December 8, 1987. The treaty eliminated two classes of weapons systems in Europe and allowed each nation to make on-site inspections of the other’s military installations.

Question 24

November 9, 1989

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East Germany opened the Berlin Wall, allowing free passage between the two parts of the city for the first time in 28 years.

Question 25

CIS

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Commonwealth of Independent States. Took over after the diminish of the Soviet Union

Question 26

Tiananmen Square

Answer 26

In April 1989, university students in China held marches that quickly grew
into large demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square - for freedom of speech and a greater voice in the government and built another version of the statue of liberty to show their struggle for democracy. Li Peng ordered the military to crush the protesters

Question 27

Sandanistas

Answer 27

Sandinistas, rebels who took their name from a rebel leader named Sandino who had been killed in 1934 by the somoza family. President Carter sent aid as well as the soviet union and cuba after the sandinistas toppled over the somozas’ son. Reagan cut all aid to the Sandinista government and threw his support to guerrilla forces known as the Contras because they were against the Sandinistas.

Question 28

Boland Amendment

Answer 28

In response to the contra army growing and Americans stationing themselves to operations, Congress passed the Boland amendment banning military aid to the Contras for two years even though Reagan’s administration still found ways to negotiate aid.

Question 29

Grenada

Answer 29

After Reagan saw the close ties from Grenada and Communist Cuba he sent troops to overthrow the pro cuban government

Question 30

Panama

Answer 30

In Panama Bush had General Noriega arrested because of drug trafficking and sent him to jail. 20,000 soldiers to overthrow him.

Question 31

Iran Contra Scandal

Answer 31

In 1983, terrorist groups loyal to Iran took a number of Americans hostage in Lebanon. Reagan denounced Iran and urged U.S. allies not to sell arms to Iran for its war against Iraq. Therefore, Americans were shocked to learn in 1986 that President Reagan had approved the sale of arms to Iran. In exchange for those sales, Iran promised to win the release of seven American hostages held in Lebanon by pro-Iranian terrorists.

Question 32

Operation Desert Storm

Answer 32

Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control. US air attacked Iraq and launched a successful ground offensive from Saudi Arabia. They liberated Kuwait with Operation Desert Storm.

Question 33

Bush Downfall

Answer 33

Bush hit a downfall due to his weak efforts to stop the recession from 1990-1992 as well as the increase in taxes even though in his campaign he promised not to.

Question 34

SDI

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Strategic Defense Initiative - Reagan asked the country’s scientists to develop a defense system that would keep Americans safe from enemy missiles. Officially called the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, the system quickly became known as Star Wars, after the title of a popular movie.