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USH Unit 11-Crisis & Resurgence Quiz Part 2 2018
USH Unit 11-Crisis & Resurgence Quiz Part 2 2018
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U.S. History Unit 11-Crisis & Resurgence (1970s-1990s) Voc. Quiz (#21-40).
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The 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (awardedthe 2002 Nobel Peace Prize).
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
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It was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right.
The Silent Majority
The Baby Boom generation
Generation X
The Moral Majority
3
40th President of the US (1981–1989). Prior to his presidency, he was a radio, film & TV actor.
Gerald Ford
George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
4
Proposed by Reagan to use ground-based & space-based systems to shield the US from ICBM attack.
MIRV
NASA
SDI
NSA
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The power of eminent domain coupled with "just compensation" for those whose property is taken.
2nd Amendment Gun Rights
10th Amendment States Rights
1st Amendment Speech Rights
5th Amendment Property Rights
6
Federal law designed to encourage banks to help meet the needs of borrowers in all communities.
The Camp David Accords
The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Equal Rights Amendment
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It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclearpower plant history (March 28, 1979).
Three Mile Island accident
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
SL-1 accident
Chernobyl
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The power to take private property for public use by a state or national government.
laissez-faire
eminent domain
coup d'etat
de jure
9
During the Reagan admin., senior adm. officials secretly facilitated sale of arms to Iran.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Whitewater Scandal
The Iran Contra Affair
Watergate Scandal
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Diplomatic crisis between Iran & US (52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days (1979-1981).
The Pentagon Papers
The Iran Hostage Crisis
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The Camp David Accords
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Postindustrial region straddling the NE & the EN Central States (refers to economic decline).
dairy belt
sun belt
rust belt
corn belt
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His policies of glasnost & perestroika contributed to the end of the Cold War.
Vladimir Putin
Leonid Brezhnev
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
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When the inflation rate is high, economic growth slows, & unemployment remains steadily high.
laissez-faire
bull market
trickle down economics
stagflation
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An American evangelical Christian evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister.
Jimmy Johnson
Bill Clinton
Pope John Paul II
Billy Graham
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Recognized as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe.
Barry Goldwater
Billy Graham
Pope John Paul II
Mikhail Gorbachev
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1983 suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine & French Paratrooper barracks in Beirut.
Multinational Force in Lebanon
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The My Lai Massacre
The Tet Offensive
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Ancient phrase and concept implying that strength of arms is a necessary component of peace.
Trust but Verify
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Strategic Defense Initiative
Peace Through Strength
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These policies are associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics
Pump Priming
communism
laissez-faire
Reaganomics
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She supported rational & ethical egoism and rejected altruism (The Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugged)
Ayn Rand
Phyllis Schlafly
Sandra Day O'Connor
Betty Friedan
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Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt signed in 1979 at the request of President Carter.
The Oslo Accords
The Pentagon Papers
The Camp David Accords
The Iran Hostage Crisis
