US History- Chapter 20

While President George H.W. Bush struggled to deal with events in Eastern Europe and Asia, a crisis developed in ____________________.

Panama

Which of the following statements about discount retailers is accurate?

They sell large quantities of goods at low prices.

________________ is laying off workers and managers to increase a company's efficiency.

downsizing

To raise money for starving people in Ethiopia, singer Bob Geldof organized a series of concerts around the world called ____________________.

"Live Aid"

_________________ was the conservative Republican nominee for president in 1964.

Barry Goldwater

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

began reducing its armed forces and canceling orders for military equipment

____________________, a disease that weakens the immune system and lowers resistance to illnesses, became an epidemic during the 1980s.

AIDs

________________ was a Protestant minister who built a national following by the late 1970s.

Billy Graham

In May 1989, students and workers held demonstrations calling for democracy in _______________.

China

What changes occurred in the world at the end of the 1980s?

During the 1980s, conservative politics and Reaganomics held sway as the Berlin Wall crumbled, new computer technologies emerged, and AIDS ravaged the United States.

How did technology change American life in the 1980s?

In the 1980s, technology changed tremendously. A videocassette recorder was made. The Sony Walker also made music portable.

How do liberals and conservatives differ in their ideas about the economy and government?

Liberals believe that the government should regulate the economy to protect people from the power of corporations and wealthy elites. Conservatives believe that government regulations make the economy less efficient. They also believe that free enterprise is the best economic system.

__________________ is the movement founded by Jerry Falwell that backed conservative candidates and issues.

Moral Majority

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

Reaganomics

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

Saddam Hussein

Which of the following developments was necessary for conservatives to build a coalition that could elect a president?

Southerners began shifting their votes to the Republican Party.

In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of the ___________________.

Soviet Union

______________ are the Southern and Western regions of the United States.

Sunbelt

During his presidency, Reagan launched the largest peacetime buildup of the ____________________.

US military

In 1975, entrepreneur Ted Turner launched the television station ____________________ .

WTBS

___________________ worked to spread conservative ideas to a wider audience by founding the magazine National Review.

William F. Buckley

The rapid economic growth of the 1980s and the cultural emphasis on accumulating wealth was partly caused by ___________________________.

baby boomers entering workforce

_________________ is paid by businesses and investors when they sell stocks or real estate for a profit.

capital gains tax

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

contras in Nicaragua

The tax cut President Reagan won from Congress would increase the budget deficit, so Reagan proposed ____________________ to keep the deficit under control.

cutting social programs

Reagan's first act as president was to sign an executive order eliminating price controls on oil and gasoline, a step towards ___________________.

deregulation

The largest religious group within the social conservative movement that formed by the late 1970s was _____________________.

evangelical Protestants

True or False? Believers in supply-side economics supported higher taxes, allowing businesses and investors to use extra capital on new investments.

false

True or False? President Reagan believed that the United States should oppose guerilla groups fighting to overthrow Communist or pro-Soviet governments, an approach that came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine.

false

_______________ means "openness," allowing more freedom of religion and speech in the Soviet Union.

glasnost

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

government

The strong economic growth of the 1980s mostly benefited ___________________.

middle- and upper-class Americans.

___________________ means "restructuring," allowing some private enterprise and profit making in the Soviet Union.

perestroika

_______________ is the term used by presidential candidate Jesse Jackson for a broad group of minorities and the poor.

rainbow coalition

During the 1980s, ____________________ citizens became vocal in the political arena, especially about issues such as Social Security and Medicare.

senior

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

social behavior

"_________________________," television stations that sold low-cost sports and entertainment programs via satellite to cable companies throughout the nation, changed broadcasting in the late 1970s and 1980s.

super stations

For many Americans, the conservative idea that the government had become too big meant simply that ___________________.

taxes were too high

True or False? President Reagan believed that cutting taxes and building up the military were more important than balancing the budget.

true

True or False? The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 marked the beginning of the end of the cold war.

true

True or False? The economic expansion the nation experienced during Reagan's first term as president made him very popular, contributing to his reelection in 1984.

true

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

videocassette recorders

The portion of the nation's wealth earned by the ____________________ 5 percent of Americans began to rise in the late 1980s.

wealthiest