This early name given to what was to be later known as AIDS helped to falsely give the impression that AIDS was a "gay disease"
What is GRID
100
This economic theory involves giving manufacturers tax cuts so that they can sell their products cheaper, thereby raising the value of the dollar
What is Supply Side Economics
100
This economic indicator measures all economic activity in a country
What is Gross Domestic Product
100
This program saw a major restructuring of the Soviet economy in the mid 1980s
What is perestroika
100
This concept states that a nation would not attack another nation armed with nuclear weapons in fear that they would both be destroyed when the other retaliated.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction
200
This person famously stated that "Morality and medicine teach the same lessons"
Who is the Pope
200
This economic indicator measures the falling value of the dollar
What is inflation
200
This word was the most used word in Reagan's 1981 Inaugural Address
What is "Government"
200
This Soviet leader negotiated with Reagan to scale back the nuclear arsenals of both the USA and USSR
Who is Gorbachev
200
These were two of the main causes of the Cold War
What is ideology and security (would accept nuclear arms)
300
This type of cancer was the earliest sign that there was a major health crisis that would later be known as AIDS
What is Kaposi Sarcoma
300
This is the type of spending that a government engages in when it has higher expenditures (spending) than it has revenue (tax dollars coming in)
What is Deficit Spending
300
This wildly varied genre of music in the 1980s drew influences from punk and pop
What is New Wave
300
This policy was introduced to create transparency and open conversation in hopes that new ideas could save communism in the USSR
What is Glasnost
300
This European city hosted the first meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev in which Reagan amazed Reagan supporters by not wearing a jacket.
What is Geneva
400
This was the year that Reagan finally mentioned AIDS publicly
What is 1985
400
List at two failures of Reaganomics
What is cutting government spending, deficit spending
400
This is the megaton yield of all conventional and atomic bombs used in World War 2. The Trident submarine had a payload three times this size!
What is 3 megatons
400
This is the name of the largest nuclear weapon produced by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
What is the Tsar bomb
400
This policy favored by England's Prime Minister Thatcher promoted maintaining a strong nuclear arsenal to dissuade other nations from using them against your nation.
What is Deterrence
500
The radical citizen activism of this group demonstrates the public outrage that the federal government was not responding adequately to the AIDS crisis
What is ACT UP
500
List three successes of Reaganomics
What is raising GDP, cutting inflation, lowering unemployment
500
This 80s video featured confusing imagery, ballet ninjas, and glowing eyes.
What is Total Eclipse of the Heart
500
List three reasons for the collapse of the Soviet economy at the end of the 1980s
What is military spending, mismanagement of resources, inflation, education gap, technology gap, etc
500
(within 1,000) This was the combined number of nuclear warheads maintained between the USA and USSR in 1988