Deck 30: Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

Question 1

In 1983, the United States overthrew the government of what small Caribbean nation?

A) Cuba
B) Jamaica
C) Bermuda
D) St.Croix
E) Grenada

Answer 1

Grenada

Question 2

All the following statements regarding the New Right are true except its

A) interests are almost entirely centered around social and cultural issues.
B) origins can be traced back several decades before Ronald Reagan became president.
C) supporters were outraged over Roe v.Wade court case.
D) supporters include Protestant fundamentalists.
E) a diverse coalition of conservatives.

Answer 2

interests are almost entirely centered around social and cultural issues.

Question 3

In 1978, Jimmy Carter brokered a historic peace accord between

A) Iran and Iraq.
B) Lebanon and Syria.
C) Great Britain and Argentina.
D) North Korea and South Korea.
E) Israel and Egypt.

Answer 3

Israel and Egypt.

Question 4

In order to assist a faltering economy, Jimmy Carter did all of the following except

A) Reduced capital-gains taxes.
B) Increased minimum wage.
C) Deregulated financial sectors.
D) Deregulated transportation sectors.
E) Cut spending for social programs.

Question 5

During the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill testified against Thomas, accusing him of

A) racial discrimination.
B) anti-Semitism.
C) income tax evasion.
D) sexual harassment.
E) spousal abuse.

Question 6

Ronald Reagan was in favor of all of the following positions in 1980 except

A) reducing defense spending.
B) supporting large tax cuts.
C) opposing abortion.
D) advocating prayer in school.
E) advocating conservative family values.

Question 7

The Democratic opponent to George Bush in the 1988 presidential election was

A) Jesse Jackson.
B) Michael Dukakis.
C) Edward Kennedy.
D) Walter Mondale.
E) Ted Kennedy.

Question 8

The diverse coalition of conservatives referred to as a New Right included all of the following members except

A) Milton Friedman.
B) Patrick Buchanan.
C) Jeane Kirkpatrick.
D) Jimmy Carter.
E) Jerry Falwell.

Question 9

The winner of the 1976 presidential election was

A) Gerald Ford.
B) Jimmy Carter.
C) Walter Mondale.
D) Robert Dole.
E) Richard Nixon.

Question 10

The Soviet Union invaded which one of the following countries in 1979?

A) Turkey
B) Armenia
C) Kazakhstan
D) Afghanistan
E) South Korea

Question 11

The first person to become both president and vice president, without having been elected to either position, was

A) Jimmy Carter.
B) Nelson Rockefeller.
C) Richard Nixon.
D) Gerald Ford.
E) Ronald Reagan.

Question 12

In 1980, with slightly more than 50 percent of the popular vote, ____ was elected to the presidency.

A) George Bush
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Gerald Ford
E) Richard Nixon

Question 13

All of the following occurred during the Reagan administration except the

A) increase in the rate of poverty.
B) reduction in federal spending for social welfare programs.
C) soaring of the federal deficit.
D) appointment of many Catholic social conservatives to courts.
E) reduction in environmental protections.

Question 14

Throughout the 1980s, the Reagan administration attempted to overthrow the leadership of what Latin American nation?

A) Guatemala
B) El Salvador
C) Nicaragua
D) Honduras
E) Panama

Question 15

In December 1989, U.S.forces entered what Latin American nation in order to arrest its president?

A) Honduras
B) Panama
C) Nicaragua
D) Guatemala
E) Mexico

Question 16

The 1992 Democratic nominee for the presidency was

A) Bill Clinton.
B) Michael Dukakis.
C) Al Gore.
D) Edward Kennedy.
E) Joe Lieberman.

Question 17

The independent, self-financed candidate in the 1992 presidential election was billionaire

A) Donald Trump.
B) Ross Perot.
C) John Rockefeller.
D) Allan Frost.
E) Al Franken.

Question 18

In 1983, after a truck bomb killed 241 U.S.soldiers in Lebanon, President Reagan

A) ordered air strikes against suspected terrorist targets.
B) attempted to destabilize the government of Syria.
C) withdrew the remaining American troops from Lebanon.
D) increased arms sales to Israel.
E) threatened to invade Iran.

Question 19

One of the most damaging problems of the Carter administration was its failure to win the release of U.S.hostages from

A) Iraq.
B) Iran.
C) Kuwait.
D) Lebanon.
E) Jordan.

Question 20

In 1984, Ronald Reagan defeated ____, a Minnesota Democrat, for the presidency.

A) Gary Hart
B) Robert Dole
C) Michael Dukakis
D) Walter Mondale
E) Ted Kennedy

Question 21

Prior to becoming president, Jimmy Carter had been all of the following except a(n)

A) engineer.
B) Republican.
C) peanut farmer.
D) governor.
E) naval officer.

Question 22

President Jimmy Carter supported all of the following domestic policies except

A) government funding for public-works jobs.
B) expansion of domestic energy production.
C) deregulation of some industries.
D) tax cuts.
E) dramatic cuts in welfare spending.

Question 23

Ronald Reagan's second major goal was aimed at which segment of society?

A) women
B) unions
C) upper class elites
D) Asian Americans
E) African Americans

Question 24

The phrase "supply-side economics" refers to

A) Franklin Roosevelt's economic policy of supplying war materials to the allies in World War II.
B) Jimmy Carter's reduction of capital gains taxes.
C) congressional efforts to control the federal budget.
D) a theory embraced by Ronald Reagan that tax reductions would stimulate the economy.
E) the U.S.policy of supplying aid to third world countries that supported the U.S.

Question 25

The 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee was

A) Walter Mondale.
B) Geraldine Ferraro.
C) Lloyd Bentsen.
D) Edward Kennedy.
E) Shirley Chisholm.

Question 26

The end of the Cold War and the fall of Eastern European communism occurred during the presidency of

A) Jimmy Carter.
B) Ronald Reagan.
C) George Bush.
D) Bill Clinton.
E) Gerald Ford.

Question 27

During the 1980s, conservative Reaganites redefined the word "liberalism" to mean

A) wasteful social programs that robbed working Americans and rewarded lazy undeserving people.
B) limited government spending that controlled inflation.
C) moderate support for traditional family and social values.
D) government programs that helped average families purchase homes and consumer goods.
E) sexual promiscuity.

Question 28

The Berlin Wall came down in which year?

A) 1978
B) 1980
C) 1984
D) 1989
E) 1992

Question 29

In the Persian Gulf War, President George H.W.Bush did not oust Saddam Hussein from power because

A) he considered him a potential ally.
B) he had promised not to do so at the start of the war.
C) the United Nations forbid him to do it.
D) U.S.military planners worried about being able to control a post-Saddam Iraq.
E) the casualty rate among U.S.troops was already very high.

Question 30

Ronald Reagan's impact on the federal judicial system can best be described as

A) minimal.
B) significant.
C) supportive of liberals.
D) balanced.
E) uninterested.

Question 31

During George Bush's presidency,

A) the federal deficit continued to increase.
B) the Soviet Union was abolished.
C) the United States invaded Panama.
D) the Persian Gulf War was fought.
E) all of these choices

Question 32

When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992 he

A) emphasized his roots in the 1960s.
B) cast himself as a traditional Democrat.
C) was hurt that neither he nor his running mate had any military service.
D) made the preservation of the welfare system a top priority.
E) admitted to having extramarital affairs.

Question 33

In the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, the mood of the public was

A) optimistic.
B) disillusioned.
C) militant.
D) disinterested.
E) fearful.

Question 34

Reagan's "Star Wars" program was

A) a cultural exchange with the Soviet Union that included sharing of science-fiction films.
B) so expensive that Congress refused to fund it.
C) a space-based defense against incoming missiles.
D) made into a block-buster movie.
E) a government program to subsidize the movie industry.

Question 35

The domestic policies of the Carter administration

A) greatly increased aid to low-income families.
B) lowered the gas tax to increase the competitiveness of U.S.oil companies.
C) increased price inflation and stifled economic growth.
D) eliminated "stagflation" and expanded the economy.
E) ensured his reelection.

Question 36

Jimmy Carter appealed to voters because he was a

A) "born-again" Christian.
B) Washington outsider who was untainted by the political corruption of the Nixon era.
C) former governor with a southern small-town agricultural background.
D) retired naval officer.
E) all of these choices

Question 37

Which of the following was not true of the Iran-Contra affair?

A) The United States secretly sold weapons to Iran.
B) Iran promised to help gain the release of Americans held hostage by Middle Eastern terrorists.
C) Profits from arms sales were used to fund revolutionaries in Nicaragua.
D) President George Bush pardoned the officials who participated in the scheme.
E) Oliver North and others destroyed documents and lied to Congress.

Question 38

In response to the Khmer Rouge seizure of the U.S.ship Mayaguez, Gerald Ford

A) appealed to the United Nations for help in freeing the ship and crew.
B) apologized for the ship's accidental intrusion into Cambodian waters.
C) refused to negotiate with the Cambodians.
D) took no direct action and let events play themselves out.
E) ordered a rescue mission and a bombing attack.

Question 39

George Bush's campaign faltered during the election of 1992 because

A) Bush did not have a clear, consistent vision of foreign and domestic policy.
B) the Democrats attacked him as an enemy of "family values."
C) his appearance on MTV shocked conservative voters.
D) white southern Protestants overwhelmingly supported the Democratic ticket.
E) the Democratically controlled Congress took credit for the economic prosperity.

Question 40

Which of the following is not an example of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy?

A) establishment of formal diplomatic relations with Communist China
B) negotiations that improved relations between Israel and Egypt
C) expansion of American control in the Panama Canal Zone
D) development of a human-rights policy to determine which countries received U.S.foreign aid
E) failure to deal effectively with the hostage crisis

Question 41

The advocacy group ACT-UP is most associated with

A) gays.
B) women.
C) Blacks.
D) Hispanics.
E) Asians.

Question 42

George Bush's vice president was Dan Quayle.

Question 43

The U.S.operation to remove Iraq from Kuwait was known as "Operation Just Cause."

Question 44

The first woman ever to run for president or vice president on a major party ticket was Sandra Day O'Connor.

Question 45

In the Iran-Contra Affair

A) Ronald Reagan claimed ignorance.
B) Oliver North prosecuted the case.
C) most Americans viewed this as worse than Watergate.
D) it was clear that the plan was clear and successful, although illegal.
E) Ronald Reagan refused to comment or make any statement.

Question 46

The price for a barrel of oil quadrupled between 1971 and 1980.

Question 47

"Operation Just Cause" was aimed against

A) Nicaragua.
B) Iraq.
C) Cuba.
D) El Salvador.
E) Panama.

Question 48

Many of those initially diagnosed with AIDS were gay men.

Question 49

In 1980, Jimmy Carter's major Democratic opponent to his renomination was

A) Ronald Reagan.
B) George McGovern.
C) John Anderson.
D) Walter Mondale.
E) Edward Kennedy.

Question 50

All of the following are true regarding Affirmative Action except

A) it had no real impact in the workplace or in education.
B) some have argued it causes reverse discrimination.
C) some have argued that it violates principals Martin Luther King Jr.espoused.
D) it was endorsed by the Supreme Court.
E) even some who benefitted from the programs have criticized it.

Question 51

Which of the following was an issue among the Asian American community?

A) government funding for projects for their communities
B) veteran benefits for members of their community
C) wages for new arrivals
D) educational programs in college
E) all of these choices

Question 52

When he ran for president in 1976, Jimmy Carter asked voters, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

Question 53

George Bush failed to keep one of his most important 1988 campaign pledges-the pledge of "no new taxes."

Question 54

In 1976, Jimmy Carter won every southern state except

A) Georgia.
B) Alabama.
C) Virginia.
D) Florida.
E) Texas.

Question 55

Which of the following did Native Americans gain?

A) an Indian Bill of Rights
B) Supreme Court recognition of tribal self-determination
C) Congressional recognition that artifacts should be returned to tribal nations
D) legal rights to operate gambling casinos on reservation property
E) all of these choices

Question 56

In dealing with the Soviet Union, Jimmy Carter did all of the following except

A) Boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow.
B) Halted grain exports to the Soviet Union.
C) Withdrew a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
D) Requested that the Berlin Wall be torn down.
E) Revived registration for the military draft.

Question 57

During the Carter administration, treaties were signed that would return the Panama Canal to Panama.

Question 58

Ronald Reagan was the first movie star to be president.

Question 59

Cesar Chavez was a key leader in the agricultural Mexican American movement.

Question 60

President George H.W.Bush's popularity rose as a result of

A) his change of heart in raising taxes.
B) the Persian Gulf War.
C) his actions in the former Yugoslavia.
D) the state of the economy in 1992.
E) his role on the Iran-Contra affair.

Question 61

None of the major participants in the Iran-Contra affair were punished for their crimes.

Question 62

The Reagan administration supported "freedom fighters" in Ethiopia, Angola, Nicaragua, and elsewhere because these revolutionaries were dedicated to democracy and human rights.

Question 63

The American Indian Movement was an activist organization for multiple Native American tribes.

Question 64

Formal diplomatic ties between the United States and China were made during the Carter administration.

Question 65

The Iranian hostage crisis was one of the most embarrassing foreign policy failures of the Carter administration.

Question 66

The minimum wage when measured in constant dollars rose throughout Ronald Reagan's presidency.

Question 67

Jesse Jackson emerged as a key African American leader.

Question 68

Bill Clinton won election in 1992 with well under half of the popular vote.

Question 69

Savings and loan companies made risky loans and several faced bankruptcies.

Question 70

Leaders of the Religious Right strongly supported the separation of church and state doctrine of the constitution.

Question 71

Ronald Reagan appointed James Watt as secretary of the Department of the Interior.

Question 72

President George H.Bush opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Question 73

Ronald Reagan sought to limit some federal spending on social welfare.

Question 74

A concern for human rights lay at the center of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy.

Question 75

Ronald Reagan's pro-labor policies helped increase union membership in the 1980s.

Question 76

"Hispanic" is a term that simply means Mexican American.

Question 77

In 1992, Bill Clinton's main criticism of George H.W.Bush was that he had left Saddam Hussein in power after the Persian Gulf War.

Question 78

Jimmy Carter won a decisive victory in the election of 1976.

Question 79

Deregulation during the Reagan administration kept the savings and loan industry from financial collapse.

Question 80

Gerald Ford's decline in public popularity can be attributed to intense media criticism.