Deck 18: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Boris Yeltsin

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Perestroika

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sandra Day O'Connor

Answer 3

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Herbert Walker Bush

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Saddam Hussein

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Walter Mondale

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ronald Reagan

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Clarence Thomas

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Michael Dukakis

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Nelson Mandela

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Geraldine Ferraro

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jimmy Carter

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"supply-side" economics

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jesse Jackson

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Manuel Noriega

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Edward Kennedy

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jerry Falwell

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Margaret Thatcher

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anita Hill

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
contras

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
ethnic cleansing

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"ABC" movement

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Reaganomics

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
identity politics

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF)

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"boll weevils"

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
yuppies

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
rainbow coalition

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Iran-Contra Affair

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Right

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Moral Majority

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Religious Right

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sandinistas

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pro-choice/pro-life

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Grenada

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chappaquiddick

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Glasnost

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Solidarity Movement

Question 42

The New Right movement that helped to elect Ronald Reagan was spearheaded by

A) fiscal conservatives.
B) evangelical Christians.
C) gold-standard advocates.
D) midwesterners.
E) neoconservatives.

Question 43

Democrats who opposed the reelection of President Carter complained that he

A) had failed to control double-digit inflation.
B) negotiated the Panama Canal Treaty.
C) had not aggressively pursued civil rights.
D) failed to rescue the hostages in Iran.
E) had removed regulatory controls from major industries.

Question 44

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Red Sea

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Roe v. Wade

Question 46

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Lebanon

Question 47

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Iran

Question 48

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Persian Gulf

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Americans With Disabilities Act

Question 50

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Syria

Question 51

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Saudi Arabia

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Operation Desert Storm

Question 53

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Israel

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

Question 55

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Jordan

Question 56

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Kuwait

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"gender gap"

Question 58

In the 1980 national elections

A) Edward Kennedy challenged incumbent President Carter for the nomination of the Democratic party.
B) although Ronald Reagan won the presidency, both houses of Congress still had Democratic party majorities.
C) third-party candidate John Anderson won three states and seventeen Electoral College votes.
D) Ronald Reagan won the presidency by the closest margin since the Kennedy-Nixon election of 1960.
E) Reagan led Republicans to majorities in both houses of Congress.

Question 59

Edward Kennedy's campaign to take the presidential nomination away from Jimmy Carter in 1980 was handicapped by

A) his poor performance as a senator.
B) a growing dislike for the Kennedys.
C) Carter's popularity.
D) lingering suspicions about his involvement in an automobile accident in which a young woman was killed.
E) his inability to reach beyond New England.

Question 60

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
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____ Iraq

Question 61

President Ronald Reagan and the new British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, shared all of the following goals except

A) limiting the role of government, especially in regulating business.
B) shrinking the power of labor unions.
C) strengthening the Anglo-American alliance.
D) enhancing the role of religion in public life.
E) promoting a muscular foreign policy, especially against the Soviet Union.

Question 62

Ronald Reagan's essential domestic goal as president was to

A) cut back on military expenditures.
B) remove government interference in people's private lives in such areas as abortion and pornography.
C) dismantle the welfare state and shrink the size of the federal government.
D) transfer welfare programs to the states.
E) reform public education.

Question 63

In the 1980s, for the first time in the twentieth century

A) income gaps widened between the richest and the poorest Americans.
B) middle-class incomes rose.
C) the poor made economic gains.
D) the economy was uniformly healthy.
E) the majority of Americans were middle class.

Question 64

Conservative Democrats who helped Ronald Reagan to pass his budget and tax-cutting legislation were called

A) blue dogs.
B) sagebrush rebels.
C) scalawags.
D) neoconservatives.
E) boll weevils.

Question 65

Which of these is NOT a true statement about yuppies?

A) "Yuppies" was a nickname for young, urban professionals in the 1980s.
B) Yuppies symbolized the new income stratification in America.
C) Yuppies were known for their materialism and conspicuous consumption.
D) Yuppies showcased the pursuit of wealth that symbolized the 1980s.
E) Yuppies represented the largest group of working Americans in the 1980s.

Question 66

To President Reagan, "the focus of evil in the modern world" was

A) anti-American terrorists.
B) the federal bureaucracy.
C) political liberalism.
D) the Soviet Union.
E) communist China.

Question 67

Before being elected president, Ronald Reagan's experience in elected public office had been as

A) senator from California.
B) governor of California.
C) Orange County, California, supervisor.
D) governor of Nevada.
E) U.S. representative from California.

Question 68

Ronald Reagan was similar to Franklin D. Roosevelt in that both men

A) disliked big business.
B) championed the common man against vast, impersonal menaces.
C) were raised in wealthy families.
D) favored social engineering by the government.
E) had run for vice president before being elected president.

Question 69

For the Soviet Union's new policies of Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (restructuring) to work, it was essential that the

A) Soviets keep control of Eastern Europe.
B) Communist Party engage in democratic competition.
C) United States and Western Europe sign free trade agreements with the Soviet Union.
D) United States send economic and food aid to the Soviet Union.
E) Cold War end.

Question 70

The only two places not swept by Ronald Reagan in his 1984 electoral landslide over former vice president Walter Mondale were

A) Washington State and Hawaii.
B) Minnesota and Wisconsin.
C) Massachusetts and Vermont.
D) Minnesota and the District of Columbia.
E) New York and New Jersey.

Question 71

One consequence of the record-high deficits and high interest rates of the 1980s was

A) lower energy costs.
B) growing productivity in manufacturing.
C) a soaring value for the dollar.
D) a general demand to raise taxes.
E) new capital investment.

Question 72

Ronald Reagan's supply side economic advisers assured him that the combination of budgetary discipline and tax reduction would do all of the following except

A) stimulate new investment.
B) deplete overall tax revenues for the federal government.
C) boost productivity.
D) foster dramatic economic growth.
E) reduce the federal budget deficit.

Question 73

Despite his failure in the White House, President Jimmy Carter earned widespread admiration in his post-presidential years for his

A) foreign policy speeches.
B) political influence in the Democratic party.
C) humanitarian and human rights activities.
D) advocacy of women's rights.
E) refusal to comment critically on political matters involving his presidential successors.

Question 74

The strong tax revolt against extensive government programs and spending was spurred by the passage of Proposition 13 that severely limited property taxes in

A) Arizona.
B) Wisconsin.
C) New Hampshire.
D) California.
E) Oregon.

Question 75

Besides cutting the federal budget, Reagan's other main domestic initiative when he took office was

A) developing new programs to aid business.
B) expanding federally funded social programs.
C) making substantial reductions in marginal tax rates over a period of three years.
D) privatizing the Social Security system.
E) eliminating government regulation of food and drugs.

Question 76

The first woman to receive the vice-presidential nomination of a major political party was

A) Elizabeth Dole.
B) Sandra Day O'Connor.
C) Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
D) Geraldine Ferraro.
E) Janet Reno.

Question 77

The first results of Reagan's supply-side economics in 1982 were a(n)

A) sharp recession and rise in unemployment.
B) reduced federal deficit.
C) expansion of international trade.
D) economic boom.
E) wave of new business investment.

Question 78

Ronald Reagan began to abandon his liberal New Deal political philosophy and to espouse a conservative, anti-government line

A) after being elected governor of California.
B) during World War II.
C) when he discovered communist infiltration in Hollywood.
D) when he decided to challenge President Gerald Ford for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976.
E) when he became a spokesman for General Electric.

Question 79

Which of the these social issues was not an important concern that the New Right hoped to constrict or eliminate through legal action?

A) Divorce
B) Pornography
C) Homosexuality
D) Abortion
E) Affirmative action

Question 80

In contrast to the Old Right, many New Right activists of the 1980s were most concerned about

A) cultural and social issues.
B) laissez-faire economics.
C) foreign policy.
D) the environment.
E) health care.