US History - Quiz 37 (1980's)

Question 1

investigated as part of the Iran-Contra affair

Answer 1

Oliver North (matching)

Question 2

Soviet leader who signed the INF Treaty

Answer 2

Mikhail Gorbachev (matching)

Question 3

first elected president of the Russian republic

Answer 3

Boris Yeltsin (matching)

Question 4

commanded Operation Desert Storm from Washington, D.C.

Answer 4

Colin Powell (matching)

Question 5

appointed to lead the U.S. troops into combat during Operation Desert Storm

Answer 5

Norman Schwarzkopf (matching)

Question 6

the prime minister of Great Britain who shared the same conservative vision as Ronald Reagan

Answer 6

Margaret Thatcher

Question 7

In 1981, NASA launched the first space space shuttle named…

Answer 7

Columbia

Question 8

the movement of Polish nationalists who stood up to Soviet oppression

Answer 8

Solidarity

Question 9

the policy of stopping Communism before it could attack and enslave a country

Answer 9

Reagan Doctrine

Question 10

Iraqi dictator who invaded the nation of Kuwait in 1990

Answer 10

Saddam Hussein