Modern Era

What did Reagan do to taxes?

• Raise them
• Cut them

Broad tax cuts, cuts to the federal budget, and increased military spending, Reagan believed all of these would promote economic expansion, these are examples of what policy:

• Reaganomics

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Containment

• Fiscal Responsibility

Selling weapons to Iran to free hostages and using the money to fund war in Central America

• Iran-Contra Affair
• Watergate Affair
• Reagonomics
• Camp David Accords

Proposed system to defend the United States against missile attacks

• Deregulation

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Supply-Side Economics

• Reaganomics

What communist nations did president Nixon extend relations to during his Administration?

• Cuba
• China
• Soviet Union
• Both China and Soviet Union

Which word means, "easing/lessening of tension?"

• Inflation
• Detente
• Stagflation
• Constipation 

Which statement most accurately depicts why president Nixon had to resign from office in 1974?

• He had an affair with an intern
• He pulled troops out of Vietnam in 1973
• He opened relations with China and the Soviet Union
• He led a criminal conspiracy from the White House, which mislead the nation

In August 1974, Richard Nixon becomes the first president to do what?

• Resign
• Die while in office
• Flee the country
• Own a cat

Why did gasoline prices spike during the 197s and early 1980s?

• A natural disaster impeded offshore drilling for oil.

• Congress imposed new regulations on foreign energy companies

• Conflicts in the Middle East disrupted the distribution of oil

• Congress introduced new legislation to increase the fuel efficiency of vehicles

These demonstrations led to -

• a global energy crisis brought on by an OPEC oil embargo

• the bombing of a Marine barracks, followed by retaliatory U.S. air strikes

• a U.S. boycott of the Olympics in protests of events in Central Asia

• a hostage crisis that severely damaged confidence in the Carter administration