REVIEW QUESTIONS! (ch. 29)
George H.W. Bush promised Americans that he would continue Reagan's policies by stating...
"Read my lips: No new taxes."
group founded to stop underage drinking and drunk driving
MADD
testified during the Iran-Contra scandal
Oliver North
When President George H.W. Bush struggled to deal with events in Eastern Europe and China, a crisis developed in...
Panama
first video arcade game
Pong
counterrevolutionary group that fought the socialist government of Nicaragua
contras
Some of the money from the secret sale of weapons to Iran was given to...
contras in Nicaragua
ending government controls and rules over pricing
deregulation
Liberals generally believe in...
free speech and privacy
Reagan's first act as president was to sign an executive order eliminating price controls on...
oil and gasoline
Reagan followed the foreign policy of...
peace through strength
disease that weakens the immune system, lowering resistance to illness
AIDS
Entrepreneur Robert Johnson created the first and longest black-owned company on cable television called...
BET
conservative republican nominee for president in 1964
Barry Goldwater
first American president from the "baby boom" generation
Bill Clinton
Protestant minister with a national following
Billy Graham
Russian president who defied a coup attempt by Communists and the Soviet military
Boris Yeltsin
In May 1989, students and workers held demonstrations for democracy in...
China
Irish singer Bob Geldof organized a series of concerts around the world called "Live Aid" that raised money to help starving people in...
Ethiopia
first woman to run for vice president for a major party
Geraldine Ferraro
island nation invaded by the United States in 1983
Grenada
a treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States that called for the destruction of nuclear weapons
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
The United Nations went to war with the Persian Gulf because...
Iraq invaded Kuwait
founded the Moral Majority Movement
Jerry Falwell
tried to create a "rainbow coalition"
Jesse Jackson
Soviet leader who introduced perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev
Who became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 and agreed to resume arms control talks?
Mikhail Gorbachev
a movement founded by Jerry Falwell that built up a network of ministers to register new voters who backed conservative candidates and issues
Moral Majority
movement founded by Jerry Falwell
Moral Majority
The largest religious group within the social conservative movement was evangelical...
Protestant Christians
policy that supported guerrilla troops fighting Communists
Reagan Doctrine
President Reagan encouraged the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates and asked Congress to pass a massive tax cut in what critics called...
Reaganomics
His nomination to the Supreme Court failed after a bitter fight between Reagan and Senate Democrats
Robert Bork
Who sent his army to invade oil-rich Kuwait in August 1990?
Saddam Hussein
a widespread protest led by western conservatives against federal laws hindering the region's development
Sagebrush Rebellion
rebels who overthrew the pro-American dictator in Nicaragua in 1979 and set up a socialist government
Sandinistas
first woman on the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor
Ronald Reagan became president of this union in 1947
Screen Actors Guild
Conservatives built a coalition that could elect a president when...
Southerners began shifting there votes to the Republican party
a plan to develop weapons that could destroy incoming missiles; nicknamed "Star Wars"
Strategic Defense Initiative
the South and the West
Sunbelt
location of pro-democracy demonstration violently crushed by Chinese government forces
Tiananmen Square
Who founded the conservative magazine National Review and helped revive conservative ideas in the United States?
William F. Buckley
founded Young Americans for Freedom
William F. Buckley
appointed by Reagan to succeed Warren Burger as Chief Justice
William Rehnquist
Before Ronald Reagan became governor of California, he was...
an actor
Investigations into the Iran-Contra scandal revealed that Reagan had...
approved the sale of arms to Iran but not the diversion of money to the contras
Supply-side economics believed that tax cuts would result in...
business expansion and new jobs
a type of television that created dozens of new networks
cable
What began transforming broadcast news and entertainment in the 1980s?
cable television
tax paid by businesses and investors when they sell stocks or real estate for a profit
capitol gains tax
Reagan believed that massive Soviet Defense spending would...
collapse the Communist system
Republicans learned through Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy that the best way to attract southern votes was to support...
conservative policies
To keep the deficit under control, Reagan proposed...
cutting social programs
In May 1989, Chinese students and workers held demonstrations for...
democracy
Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative called for the...
development of weapons that could destroy incoming missiles
selling large amounts of goods at low prices quickly to make a profit
discount retailing
laying off workers and managers to become more efficient
downsizing
As opposition to reforms mounted in the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin...
fled to the United States
Reagan wanted to point Supreme Court justice who would...
follow the original intent of the Constitution
openness; a principle of Gorbachev's plan
glasnost
In the Iran-Contra Scandal, officials sold weapons to Iran to...
improve relations with the Iranian government
The collapse of the Soviet economy was due to...
inefficient central planning and huge expenditures on the arms race
idea that raising interest rates will fight inflation
monetarism
restructuring of the Soviet economy to allow some private enterprise and profit making
perestroika
term used by Jesse Jackson for a broad group of minorities and the poor
rainbow coalition
A new sound of the 1980s had rhythmic lyrics frequently focusing on the African American experience in the inner city was called...
rap
During the 1980s, many people profited from investments in...
real estate and the stock market
California's Proposition 13 was a conservative effort to...
reduce taxes
Many conservatives believe that most social problems can be solved through...
religious faith and private efforts
Although liberals favor government intervention in the economy, they are suspicious of any attempt to use the government to regulate...
social behavior
idea that high taxes take too much money away from investors, weakening the economy
supply-side economics
In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of...
the Soviet Union
During his presidency, Reagan launches the largest peacetime buildup of...
the military
Conservatives generally support...
the split of government power between states and federal levels
Unlike liberals, conservatives fundamentally distrust the power of...
the wealthy elite
By what means were Communist rulers replaced with democratically elected governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria?
violent coups
young, ambitious and hardworking moneymakers
yuppies