The Reagan Presidency

In what year was Ronald Reagan elected president?

• 1974

• 1989

• 1980

• 1963

What did Reagan do to taxes?

• Raise them
• Cut them

The Cold War ended in 1991, when which country broke apart?

• China

• Germany

• Soviet Union

• Cuba

President Reagan argued that government was essentially the

• solution to America's economic problems

• cause of America's economic problems

What event signaled a coming US victory in the Cold War?

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Iran Contra Affair

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Election of Jimmy Carter

Which of the following was the main scandal to rock the Reagan administration?

• Iran-contra scandal

• Watergate scandal

• Great Society programs

• War on Drugs campaign

Who was the Soviet President near the end of the Cold War?

• Richard Nixon

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Ronald Reagan

What job did Regan have when he first moved to California?

• The was a newspaper reporter

• He was a teacher

• He was an actor

• He was a captain in the military

What happened to the hostages that the Iranians had taken on the day of Reagan's inauguration?

• They were executed

• They escaped miraculously

• They were released

• They remained in chains

What was the primary economic theory behind Reagan's policy of lowering taxes?

• Supply-side economics

• Keynesian economics

• Monetarism

• Austrian economics