1980s Quiz Reivew

1st female on the Supreme Court

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Lina Hidalgo

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Elena Kagan

What religious group formed to promote family values and support conservative politicians?

• Great Society
• New Right
• Moral Majority
• Social Gospel

The U.S. sold weapons to Iran and used the money to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua

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

Reagan’s economic plan to cut taxes & decrease government spending

• Reaganomics

• New Deal

• Trickle-Up Economics

Reagan's policy to increase military spending to intimidate the Soviets in the Cold War

• Detente

• Peace Through Strength

• SALT

• Peace with Honor

Terrorist attack against US peace-keeping forces in 1983; led to increased security at bases

• September 11, 2001

• Tet Offensive

• Marines in Lebanon

• War on Terror

Space-based nuclear defense program; scared Soviets into ending the Cold War (AKA: Star Wars)

• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

• Detente

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

• Realpolitik

End of the Cold War - The Soviet Union collapsed & democracy was established in the USSR

• 1989

• 1985

• 1995

• 1991

Conservative organization that supports 2nd Amendment rights and endorsed Reagan for president

• CIA

• NRA

• FBI

• SALT

What impact did migration patterns in the 70s have on the United States?

• Population in the Rust Belt grew

• Conservative power grew in the Sun Belt

• More Americans moved to rural areas

• More Asian people moved into the Southwest