Pt 6

Question 1

Mob of student took control of U.S. embassy, held hostages for 440 days

Answer 1

Iran hostage Crisis

Question 2

Led Islamic fundamentalist revolution in Iran, becomes a theorcracy

Answer 2

Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 3

Failed attempt to rescue hostages in Iran, showed how much our military had fallen

Answer 3

Desert one

Question 4

Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

Answer 4

26th Amendment

Question 5

Issued by Nixon, to repair relations between U.S. and communist powers

Answer 5

Detente

Question 6

Religious group that will become important political force

Answer 6

New right

Question 7

First woman justice on the Supreme Court

Answer 7

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 8

Star Wars Defense System, Key to Reagan’s military buildup, to put satellites equipped with lasers to shoot down missiles

Answer 8

SDI(Strategic Defense Initiative)

Question 9

Selling arms to Iranian, Iranians tried to get hostages in Lebanon released, money from sale was going to the Contras

Answer 9

Iran- Contra affair

Question 10

Nuclear arms agreement between USSR and USA negotiated by Gorbachev and Reagan

Answer 10

INF treaty

Question 11

Removing Iraqi’s from Kuwait

Answer 11

Operation desert storm

Question 12

Key to Reagan’s economic plan, idea that you cut taxes which leads to people making more money, helps grow the economy

Answer 12

Supply-side economics

Question 13

Symbolized fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989

Answer 13

Fall of Berlin Wall

Question 14

Suicide truck drivers drive into Marine barracks killing 241, they were pulled out of Lebanon after that

Answer 14

Bombing in Lebanon

Question 15

A space shuttle that exploded just two minutes after takeoff, carried first civilian into space Christa McAuliffe

Answer 15

Challenger

Question 16

Special prosecutor against Clinton in the Watergate Scandal, uncovered the affair with Lewinsky, led to the impeachment of Clinton

Answer 16

Kenneth Star

Question 17

Free trade agreement between USA, Mexico, and Canada

Answer 17

NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement)

Question 18

A series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States. Pentagon, World Trade Center, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, caused us to get into Iran and Iraq, Homeland Security

Answer 18

9-11

Question 19

Peace agreement in 1993 between Israeli’s and Palestinians

Answer 19

Oslo accords

Question 20

5-4 Supreme Court declared that Florida vote recount violated equal protection clause (some votes would be examined more closely than others); ended Gore’s challenge to 2000 election results. Power of judicial review (effectively decided 2000 election).

Answer 20

Bush v. gore

Question 21

Bush v. Gore; Bush won although Gore won popular vote; controversy over the final vote count in Florida; settled by Supreme Court decision in favor of Bush

Answer 21

Election of 2000

Question 22

Ruling party in Afghanistan that allowed Al Qaeda to train in their country

Answer 22

Taliban

Question 23

African country USA sent troops to aid, took out warlord, Clinton pulled the troops out and they asked why they were even there.

Answer 23

Somalia

Question 24

Outlines containment, contain communism where it is and don’t let it spread

Answer 24

Sources of Soviet Conduct-George Kennan

Question 25

Aid to countries fighting communism

Answer 25

Truman Doctrine

Question 26

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

Answer 26

John Kennedy: Inaugural Address

Question 27

Selma and voting rights

Answer 27

Lyndon Johnson: Speech to Congress, March 15, 1965

Question 28

Wage unlimited war in Vietnam

Answer 28

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 29

American’s were suffering from Crisis in Confidence

Answer 29

Jimmy Carter: Crisis of Confidence Speech

Question 30

George W. Bush: Address to a Joint Session of Congress

Answer 30

9/11