George H.W. Bush

The Reagan administration was responsible for the __________________________ that led to American citizens to lose faith in their government when it was revealed; they sold weapons to an enemy for exchange of hostages.

• Iran Contra Affair

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Watergate

Ronald Reagan proposed a program known as _____________________ that would place satellites in space that could zap down incoming missiles from enemies.

• Sputnik I

• Star Wars

• Space Force

• Star Trek

President ___________________________ was unable to get the American hostages taken from the embassy in Iran.

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

The end of the Cold War was in large part to the Soviet Union leader Mikhail _______________ that introduced economic and political reforms inside the Soviet Union.

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Khrushchev

• Gorbachev

Ronald Reagan appointed ________________________ as a justice making her the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Ida B. Wells

• Sandra Day O’Connor

The Alabama Governor, ________________________ attempted to stop 2 African American students from enrolling into the university.

• George Wallace

• Orval Faubus

• Robert E. Lee

• Andrew Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society to end poverty included programs in healthcare such as the _______________________.

• Social Security Act

• Medicare Act

• Civil Rights Voting Act of 1965

• Civil Right Act of 1964

As a result of the prohibition of alcohol in the 18th amendment, organized crime decreased.

• True

• False

The idea of making false claims is known as _________________________ after the Wisconsin Governor who claimed to have evidence of communist spies working in the government.

• Palmer Raids

• Espionage Act

• McCarthyism

• Pendleton Act

Better labor laws are to the Knights of Labor

    As better telecommunications systems are to ________

• Higher Oil Prices

• Space Race Technologies

• Assembly Line

• Credibility Gap