Reagan & the 80s

Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative called for the...

• deployment of nuclear weapons in Western Europe

• development of weapons that could destroy incoming missiles

• deployment of nuclear missiles in space, targeted at the Soviet Union

• development of missiles that could reach the Soviet Union from silos in the U.S.

One way in which the Teapot Dome scandal, the Watergate affair, and the Iran-Contra affaier are similar is that each of these political scandals resulted in...

• a loss of faith in elected government leaders

• an attempt to abolish the electoral college

• a movement to impeach the president

• an effort to regulate the banking industry

Which event is most closely associated with the end of the Cold War?

• Passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• Establishment of a policy of détente

• Invasion of Aghanistan by the Soviet Union

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

Ronald Reagan's essential domestic goal as president was to...

• cut back on military expenditures

• remove government interference in people's private lives in such areas as abortion and pornography.

• dismantle the welfare state and shrink the size of the federal government.

• reform public education.

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

• anti-American terrorists.

• the federal bureaucracy.

• communist China.

• the Soviet Union.

Conservatives criticized the New Deal and the Great Society for having

• succeeded in ending poverty in the United States.

• expanded the size of the federal government.

• put too much power into the hands of state governments.

• encouraged the growth of big business.

During Reagan's second term, United States relations with the Soviet Union...

• broke down completely.

• improved.

• grew increasingly cold.

• did not change.

What distinction did Sandra Day O'Connor achieve in 1981?

• She became the first female American astronaut.

• She became the first female Republican candidate for vice president.

• She became the first female Speaker of the House.

• She became the first female Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Many conservatives were deeply troubled by all of the following EXCEPT

• televangelism.

• rock music.

• affirmative action.

• the women's movement.

MTV began in 1981 pioneering the use of...

• music videos.

• reality shows.

• contests.

• animated shows.