History 31 (True and False)
Jimmy Carter cancelled U.S. participation in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
True
Jimmy Carter pledged that a major focus of his foreign policy would be the defense of "human rights."
True
The invasion of Grenada by U.S. Marines was an example of the "Reagan Doctrine" that called for U.S. intervention in the Third World to support opponents of communism.
True
The Americans being held hostage in Iran were captured in a failed CIA attempt to overthrow the government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
False
The Gulf War was initially popular with the American people, but support waned significantly as casualty figures rose much higher than expected for U.S. soldiers.
False
The Iran-Contra scandal revealed that Ronald Reagan was actually working against the government in Iran despite his public statements that he supported Iranian reform.
False
The Soviet Union favored Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") because it would relieve their economy of the burden of financing a continued arms race.
False
The so-called Sagebrush Rebellion was an effort by liberal Democrats from the western states to replace Jimmy Carter as the party's nominee in 1980.
False
The so-called tax revolt of the late 1970s emerged because there was widespread agreement on the list of government programs that needed to be cut back.
False
Unlike the nasty Reagan-Mondale campaign of 1984, the Bush-Dukakis presidential campaign focused much more on straightforward discussion of the issues rather than negative attacks on the opponent.
False
Although Ronald Reagan was not able to fulfill his promise to balance the federal budget, he was able to reverse the trend of the Carter years and reduce the total annual deficit.
False
Gerald Ford's compassionate pardon of Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal improved Ford's standing in public opinion polls.
False
In his campaign for president, Jimmy Carter emphasized that he was a Washington "insider" who could be more effective with Congress than President Ford had been.
False
Jimmy Carter's most politically damaging defeat in Congress was the Senate's refusal to ratify the controversial Panama Canal Treaty.
False
