Chapter 18 Test review

What experience prepared George H Bush for the White House

• his service as an ambassador

• his time as a supreme court justice

• his vice presidency

• his work as a congressman

What did congress pass in 1990 in an attempt to decrease pollution from acid rain and motor vehicles

• NAFTA

• Clean Air Act

• Oil Pollution

Who was the Panamanian leader who surrendered to American forces?

• Manual Noriega

• Saddam Hussein

• Boris Yeltsin

Who opposed a communist coup in the USSR?

• Boris Yeltsin

• Saddam Hussein

• Manual Noriega

Who was the dictator in Iraq?

• Manual Noriega

• Saddam Hussein

• Boris Yeltsin

What act was passed by Congress in 1990 in regard to Exxon Valdez oil spill?

Write the name of the short war in the Persian Gulf in the 1990's where the US and other nations freed Kuwait from Iraqi control.

What agreement in the 1990's allowed trade to take place openly between the US, Canada, and Mexico?

Who defeated George H Bush and Ross Perot in a presidential election?

Who was the republican leader who fought Clinton's ideas and called for "contract with America"?

• Newt Gingrich

• Manual Noriega

• Boris Yeltsin