Facts
President Reagan cut funds and limited spending to make people less dependent on the __.
What is Federal Government?
First woman appointed to the Supreme Court
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
The explosion of this space shuttle suspended the space program for more than two years.
What is the Challenger?
What is conservative?
The two colors in the Google logo that do not repeat
What are green and yellow?
An arms buildup was part of Reagan's hard line against this country.
What is the Soviet Union?
President who was almost assassinated
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This brought full-length movies into people's homes, as well as control over what they watch and when they watch it.
What are videocassette recorders (VCRs)?
The US was against South Africa's policy of __.
Major event that happened on June 17, 1972 which eventually caused President Nixon to resign.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
Reagan approved bombing military sites in this country because of that country's terrorist attacks.
What is Libya?
First African-American governor since the Reconstruction period
Who is Douglas Wilder?
The space program resumed with the launch of the space shuttle __.
What is Discovery?
Congress overrode Reagan's veto of the bill to impose economic __ on South America.
What are sanctions?
The infamous line the crew of Apollo 13 uttered in the 1970’s
What is "Houston, we have a problem."?
Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan signed this to limit nuclear weapons.
What is the INF Treaty (Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty)?
Began new openness in the Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Volcano in Washington's Cascade Mountains that houses a laboratory for the US Geological Survey and is also a large natural exhibit.
What is Mount St. Helens?
A large budget __ faced President Bush at the start of his term.
What is a deficit?
This company, now one of the biggest in the world, was founded in 1975.
What is Microsoft?
Funds were given to this group because they wanted to overthrow communism in Nicaragua.
What are contras?
Defeated Michael Dukakis to become President
Who is George H. W. Bush?
Before 1985, people could have contracted HIV/AIDS through this
What is a blood transfusion?
Severe __ problems in the Soviet Union led the Soviet people to begin to question communism.
What is economic?
The group that had a hit in 1978 with the song "YMCA"
What is The Village People?