Deck 15: 1976-1984: New Directions

Question 1

Jimmy Carter had never held a federal office before being elected president.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Jimmy Carter barely edged Gerald Ford in popular votes in the 1976 presidential election.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Corporations had no mechanism through which to contribute money to political campaigns until the 1970s.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Jimmy Carter proved effective in dealing with Congress.

Question 5

Defense spending reached unprecedented heights under Jimmy Carter.

Question 6

As a young man, Ronald Reagan was a liberal.

Question 7

Ronald Reagan set out to limit presidential power.

Question 8

Ronald Reagan's economic policies made the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Question 9

In Reagan's first term in office, his administration accumulated nearly as much debt as had been accumulated in the entire history of the United States before that time.

Question 10

The birth rate in the early 1980s was significantly higher than in the early 1980s.

Question 11

How did the Watergate scandal affect Jimmy Carter's presidency?

Question 12

What is supply-side economics, and how it is supposed to work?

Question 13

What is affirmative action, and how is it supposed to work?

Question 14

Who served as Jimmy Carter's secretary of state?

A) Zbigniew Brzezinski
B) Andrew Young
C) Cyrus Vance
D) David Rockefeller

Question 15

Who was the leader of the U.S.S.R. during the 1970s?

A) Gorbachev
B) Khrushchev
C) Malenkov
D) Brezhnev

Question 16

What Middle Eastern nation was the United States's closest military ally in the region for most of the 1970s?

A) Iran
B) Israel
C) Jordan
D) Iraq

Question 17

How many U.S. diplomats were held hostage in Iran in 1979?

A) 49
B) 53
C) 62
D) 69

Question 18

The U.S.S.R. invaded Afghanistan in what year?

A) 1978
B) 1979
C) 1980
D) 1981

Question 19

In 1978, Christian-owned and -operated radio stations comprised how many of the total radio stations in the country?

A) 1 in 3
B) 1 in 4
C) 1 in 6
D) 1 in 7

Question 20

Which of the following presidential candidates in the 1980 election were born-again Christians?

A) Jimmy Carter
B) John Anderson
C) Ronald Reagan
D) All of the above

Question 21

In 1980, the Republicans won control of the Senate for the first time since what year?

A) 1932
B) 1946
C) 1952
D) 1960

Question 22

In Reagan's first term, unemployment reached its highest level since when?

A) The Vietnam War
B) The late 1940s
C) World War II
D) The Great Depression

Question 23

In the 1984 presidential election, Reagan performed well among what groups?

A) "Yuppies"
B) Evangelical Christians
C) African-Americans
D) a. and b.

Question 24

The Equal Rights Amendment failed for which of the following reasons?

A) The difficulty of the amending process
B) Conflicts internal to the Women's Right movement
C) Ambivalence over the measure among women
D) All of the above

Question 25

Who served as Reagan's secretary of defense in his first term?

A) Henry Kissinger
B) Caspar Weinberger
C) George Bush
D) Donald Rumsfeld

Question 26

In 1983, Reagan ordered the invasion of what Caribbean nation?

A) Grenada
B) Cuba
C) Puerto Rico
D) Jamaica

Question 27

What was the "evil empire"?

A) Japan
B) China
C) The U.S.S.R.
D) El Salvador

Question 28

Reagan's missile-defense initiative became known by what name?

A) The Firewall
B) Star Wars
C) Operation Homeland Shield
D) All of the above

Question 29

Who ran against Reagan in the 1984 presidential election

A) Walter Mondale
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Michael Dukakis
D) All of the above

Question 30

The principles underlying computers can be traced back to the work of what French philosopher?

A) Descartes
B) Pascal
C) Montaigne
D) Newton

Question 31

From 1981 through 1986, how much did the federal government spend on defense?

A) $1.5 billion
B) $10.5 billion
C) $1.5 trillion
D) $10.5 trillion

Question 32

Who served as Reagan's secretary of state from 1982 through 1989?

A) Henry Kissinger
B) George Shultz
C) Alexander Haig
D) Bob Dole

Question 33

At the peak of their power, the Sandinistas had armed how many civilians to oppose U.S.-led forces?

A) 25,000
B) 50,000
C) 100,000
D) 500,000

Question 34

Talk About:
-affirmative action

Question 35

Talk About:
-Afghanistan

Question 36

Talk About:
-Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 37

Talk About:
-Beirut

Question 38

Talk About:
-Camp David accords

Question 39

Talk About:
-Carter Doctrine

Question 40

Talk About:
-evangelical Christianity

Question 41

Talk About:
-"evil empire"

Question 42

Talk About:
-gender gap

Question 43

Talk About:
-Geraldine Ferraro

Question 44

Talk About:
-Grenada

Question 45

Talk About:
-inflation

Question 46

Talk About:
-Iran-Contra Affair

Question 47

Talk About:
-Jerry Falwell

Question 48

Talk About:
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Question 49

Talk About:
-Moral Majority

Question 50

Talk About:
-Palestinian Liberation Front (PLO)

Question 51

Talk About:
-Panama Canal

Question 52

Talk About:
-Pat Robertson

Question 53

Talk About:
-political action committee (PAC)

Question 54

Talk About:
-Reaganomics

Question 55

Talk About:
-"right to life"

Question 56

Talk About:
-Ronald Reagan

Question 57

Talk About:
-Sandinistas

Question 58

Talk About:
-Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Question 59

Talk About:
-Walter Mondale

Question 60

Talk About:
-yuppies

Question 61

As the text indicates, "some of the world's worst violators of human rights (South Korea, Argentina, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iran) were also important allies of the United States." Why did the United States support brutal regimes during the Cold War? Was the U.S. justified in doing so? Was such support morally excusable? Does U.S. support of repressive regimes conflict with American ideals of democracy and individual liberty? Why or why not?

Question 62

Considering his domestic and foreign policies, as well as his personal leadership style, was Reagan an effective or ineffective president? Explain.