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