Learning Curve Ch. 30
Why did American manufacturers lose market share in the 1970s and 1980s?
American businesses were undercut by imports from Germany and Japan.
American policy toward the Soviet Union during Reagan's first term was characterized by what?
An increasingly hard-line approach
How did George H. W. Bush, who was not beloved by conservative Republicans, secure the Republican presidential nomination in 1988?
By capitalizing on his fierce loyalty to Ronald Reagan
When Ronald Reagan gave his first official speech as the Republican presidential nominee in Philadelphia, Mississippi, his ringing endorsement of "states' rights" was intended to send what message to white southerners?
Conservative Republicans' opposition to federal civil rights legislation
How did the Supreme Court change under Reagan's administration?
Growing more conservative
How did Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater build grassroots support for his brand of conservative politics in the 1960s?
He published books that laid out his views and goals.
What made Republican Barry Goldwater so popular with his conservative base?
He suggested that containment was cowardice.
Why did Ronald Reagan turn away from the New Deal Democratic Party in the early 1960s?
His dislike for higher taxes and his anticommunism
During his first term in office, Reagan did which of the following?
Lowered federal taxes
Which conservative activist wrote the book A Choice Not an Echo, which accused moderate Republicans of being Democrats in disguise?
Phyllis Schlafly
This figure, which illustrates fluctuations in the U.S. government's budget deficit (or surplus) between 1940 and 2009, supports which of the following conclusions?
Since the 1970s, conservative Republicans' approaches to taxation and military spending have created large federal deficits.
What conclusion can be drawn from this map, which depicts the changes that took place in Europe and Asia in the years immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
The collapse of communism from 1989 to 1991 altered the geographical and political landscapes of Europe and Asia.
Why was Ronald Reagan forced to reverse his course on tax cuts in 1982?
There was a deep recession in which unemployment reached 10 percent.
Scientists devised the first computers during
World War II.
The Persian Gulf War was fought in 1991 by
a coalition of nations led by the United States.\
Ronald Reagan believed that the federal government was
too large and too intrusive
The diversion of profits from arms sales to Iran to assist the Nicaraguan Contras
was never connected to Ronald Reagan.
