Quiz 10.1 | Can the US make the World Safer?

Who was labeled “the focus of evil in the modern world” by President Reagan?

• Adolf Hitler

• Cuba

• Democrats

• Soviet Union

Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger proposed spending billions on doing all of the following except which one?

• Building more nuclear weapons

• Building the B-1 bomber

• Building the MX missile

• Expanding the Navy from 450 to 600 ships

President Reagan’s plan for a high tech system of lasers to destroy enemy missiles from space was given this nickname by its critics.

• Star Wars.

• Laser Shield.

• Space Defense.

• Missile Buster.

Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI was Reagan’s plan to:

• destroy all intermediate range missiles

• funnel money from the selling of arms to Iran to the Contras in Nicaragua

• create high tech system of lasers and particle beams to destroy enemy missiles in space

• attack Gaddafi’s air defense systems in Libya

Which of the following best describe the Contras?

• Rebels fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua

• Guerrillas fighting the pro-Cuban regime in Grenada

• Terrorists fighting Israel’s right to exist

• Communists fighting reforms in the Soviet Union

Which country did the United States help prevent a pro-Cuban regime from establishing a strategic Communist military base?

• El Salvador

• Grenada

• Nicaragua

• Jamaica

Which scandal plagued President Reagan's administration?

• Teapot Dome

• Watergate

• White Water

• Iran Contra

National Security Advisor Robert McFarland proposed selling U.S. anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to which country?

• Iraq

• Afghanistan

• Iran

• Nicaragua

Who proposed using the profits of the arms deal to fund the Contras in Nicaragua?

• Oliver North

• Robert McFarland

• Casper Weinberger

• Ronald Reagan

The United States was attacked in 1983 in our embassy and at a Marine barracks in what country?

• Israel

• Grenada

• Lebanon

• Libya