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WorksheetsModern Era Containment-Iran Contra Scandal
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
Which of the following actions occurred during the Iran-Contra affair?
The Reagan administration used earnings from weapons sales to Iran to illegally fund the contras.
The Reagan administration secretly hired Iranian agents to fight against the contras.
The Reagan administration paid the contras to release Americans being held hostage in Iran.
The Reagan administration hired Lebanese agents to rescue Iranians being held by the contras.
In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The Carter administration tried unsuccessfully to negotiate for the hostages release. On January 20, 1981, the day Carter left office, Iran released the Americans, ending their 444 days in captivity.
Iran Contra Affair
OPEC Hostage Crisis
Iran Hostage Crisis
Tehran Hostage Crisis
The U.S. got involved in Korea and Vietnam because of what foreign policy?
containment
Good Neighbor policy
isolationism
Roosevelt Corollary
After WWII, North Korea was occupied by the ____________ and had a ____________ government.
U.S.S.R./Communist
U.S.S.R./Democratic
U.S.A./Communist
U.S.A./Democratic
After WWII, South Korea was occupied by ____________ and had a ____________ government.
U.S.S.R./Communist
U.S.S.R./Democratic
U.S.A./Communist
U.S.A./Democratic
Why is 1991 significant?
Pearl Harbor
End of the Cold War
Sputnik
MLK Assassinated
Supreme Court ruled that state criminal abortion laws violated a woman's right to privacy
Roe v. Wade
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Martin V. King
