APUSH - Ch. 30 Quiz

Values promoted by the Religious Right, including support for the traditional nuclear family, and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.

• Family Values

• Supply-Side Economics

• Moral Majority

• Religious Values

The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 80s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed, unintentionally, to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the US in the 80s.

• HIV/AIDS

• Avian Flu

• Spanish Flu

• Tuberculosis

Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the US following the Iranian revolution. Iranians broke into the US embassy in Teheran and took 66 Americans hostage. The crisis lasted 444 days and contributed the President Carter’s reelection defeat.

• Hostage Crisis

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Watergate

• Oil Crisis

Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection – illegal because banned by American law – of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Hostage Crisis

• Oil Crisis

• Watergate

A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president.

• Moral Majority

• Family Values

• Religious Right

• Evangelical Christian Republicans

The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 80s that contributed, unintentionally, to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

The 1991 war between Iraq and a US-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. A 40-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory.

• Persian Gulf War

• Iraq War

• Kuwait War

• Middle East War

A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters, middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states, blue-collar Catholics, and a large contingent of southern whites, an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.

• Reagan Coalition

• Right Coalition

• Reagan Democrats

• Reaganomics

Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized mid-western states such as Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 70s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.

• Reagan Democrats

• Reagan Coalition

• Religious Right

• Catholic Reagonites