Rhein Semester 2

Native Americans who viewed the government's efforts to address their problems as too modest formed more militant groups, such as _________

American Indian Movement

The first practical and affordable home computer was the ______

Apple 2

Despite strong opposition from many Republicans and the National Rifle Association, the democrats in congress passed a gun control law known as the ________

Brady Bill

Choose the statement below that most accurately describes Clinton's impeachment.

Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice

In a scandal that tainted Reagan's second term in office, money from the secret sale of weapons to Iran was given to the ________

Contras in Nicaragua

The Environmental Defense Fund was established by a group of scientist to finance a series of legal actions in the late 1960s and early 1970s to halt ___________

DDT spraying

To protect Americans from further terrorist attacks the ________ was established.

Department of Homeland Security

The 2000 presidential election was determined by the contested result of ______

Florida

During the Clinton presidency, US troops served as peacekeepers in _______

Haiti

The organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced that its members would embargo, or stop shipping, petroleum to countries that supported _____

Israel

Which nation allowed the US to attack Iraq from its territory in 2003?

Kuwait

President Nixon dismantled a number of federal programs and gave more control to state and local governments, a policy he called ____________

New Federalism

In 1994, who led congressional Republicans in proposing the Contract with America?

New Gingrich

President Reagan encouraged the Federal Restive to raise interest rates and asked Congress to pass a massive tax cut, in what critics called _______

Reaganomics

The leader of Iraq who was tried and executed for ordering mass executions was ________

Saddam Hussein

Who sent his army to invade oil-rich Kuwait in August 1990?

Saddam Hussein

In the 1970s, civil rights leaders began to focus on securing for African Americans access to good jobs and _______

adequate schooling

The tax cut Reagan won from congress would increase the budget deficit, so Reagan proposed _______ to keep the deficit under control.

cutting social program acts

An economic recession was sparked in 2007 when many people with low incomes or poor credit began ________ and housing prices began to fall.

defaulting

In the 2006 midterm elections, it became clear that the voters were unhappy with the president and Congress when ______

democrats won the majority in the house and senate

A problem Clinton faced in trying to reduce the federal deficit was that it was not easy to cut funding for ______ because so many people relied on him.

entitlement programs

President Nixon argued that the recordings of the White House conversations should remain confidential to protect national security, a principle known as ___________

executive privilege

The economic condition called "stagflation" had its beginnings in the early 1970s when _______

factories closed and millions lost their jobs

What was the result of the 1995 standoff between President Clinton and congressional Republicans over the federal budget?

federal government shutdown for lack of funds

In its 1978 University of California Regents v. Bakke decision, the Supreme Court ruled that _______

fixed quotas

Unlike most liberals, conservatives tend to be fundamentally distrustful of the power of ________

government

In an unprecedented role for first lady, Hillary Clinton was appointed by her husband to _______

head a task force on health care reform

One of President Obama's priorities while in office was to expand and reform the _______

health care system

What would be an advantage of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from factories and power plants?

increase in average world temperatures would be stopped

The stock of Internet-related companies fell dramatically in 2000 when _______

many unprofitable online companies went out of business

The strong economic growth of the 1980s mostly benefited

middle and upper class Americans

The strong economic growth of the 1980s mostly benefited ______

middle and upper class Americans

Although the Supreme Court had ordered the end to segregated schools in 1954, many schools remained segregated in the early 1970s because _____

neighborhoods were still segregated

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, one of the most controversial and influential books of the 1960s, assailed the increasing use of __________

pesticides

Affirmative actions, an approach to civil rights that emerged in the 1970s, called to companies and institutions to _____

recruit African Americans

The recession that began in 1990 was caused in part by the end of the Cold War, because the United States _______

reduced arm forces and canceled orders for military equipment

The crisis in Iran that undermined Jimmy Carter's presidency began in November 1979, when ____

revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took 52 American hostages

Iraqi insurgents have used several tactics to fight coalition forces, including ________

sniper attacks and bombing

Although liberals tend to favor government intervention in the economy, they are generally suspicious of attempts to use the government to regulate ______

social behavior

As Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak were creating Apple, 19 year old Harvard dropout Bill Gates, co-founded Microsoft to design PC ______

software

For many Americans, the conservatives idea that the government had become too big meant simply that ______

taxes were too high

In one of the first tests of the Obama administration, a massive oil spill in 2010 caused major environmental damage in ________

the Gulf of Mexico

What had its roots in a computer networking system established by an agency of the US Defense Department?

the Internet

The US sent military aide to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan because ________

the Northern Alliance was fighting against the Taliban

In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of _____

the Soviet Union

During his presidency, Reagan launched the largest peacetime buildup of ______

the US military

Why did the US attack Afghanistan and defeat the Taliban government?

they supported and sheltered Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda

The USA Patriot Act is an anti-terrorist bill that allows the government to _______

tracking internet communication, wiretap suspects, and seize voicemail

Which of the following entertainment technologies changed television viewing habits as well as the movie industry in the 1980s?

videocassette recorders (VCR)

The US Supreme Court ruled that the hand recounts of ballots ______

violated the equal protection clause

Opposition to Clinton's healthcare plan came from many groups, including small business owners who believed that the plan ________

would be too expensive