The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan
The Vietnam was was fought from __________ to 1973.
1965
What amendment banned all poll taxes?
Twenty-fourth
The father of progressive education was _______________
John Dewey
Ronald Reagan challenged the Soviet Union to do what?
Tear down the Berlin Wall
Who was the Russian author who based his novels on his experience being imprisoned in a slave labor camp?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The leader who promoted achieving equal rights "by any means necessary" was _________________
During the Six day war the Sinai Peninsula was conquered by the nation of ________________.
Israel
What amendment lowered the voting age to eighteen?
Twenty-sixth
The first black supreme court justice was _______________________
Thurgood Marshall
President Reagan's policy for individual states to assume more responsibility for government programs was called ____________________-
New Federalism
Who used her teenage son to protest daily Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore public schools?
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The dictator of Iraq who invaded the tony, oil rich kingdom of Kuwait was ____________________
Saddam Hussein
In what year was Operation Desert Storm fought?
1991
What new Soviet foreign policy claimed openness and peace with the world?
Glasnost
What President negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama by 1999?
Jimmy Carter
Who was the Soviet leader who signed the INF Treaty with President Reagan?
Mikhail Gorbachev
In what year did mankind first walk on the moon?
1969
The court case in America which legalized abortion.
Roe V. Wade
Who led the troops into combat during Operation Desert Storm?
Norman Schwarzkopf
Fair Housing
What Presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968?
Robert F. Kennedy
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain who shared the same conservative vision as Ronald Reagan?
Margaret Thatcher
The day that the stock market crashed in 1987 because of foreign trade agreements is now remembered as __________________
Black Monday
Sent U.S. troops to Panama to overthrow Manuel Noriega
George H. W. Bush
Who was the Libyan dictator who sponsored international terrorism?
Muammar al-Qaddafi
The United States attempted to decrease dependence on imported oil through the building of ________________________
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline
The economist who argued that welfare programs hurt ethnic minorities was __________________
Thomas Sowell
What was Reagan's economic policy called?
Reaganomics
The agreement that enforced the elimination of tariffs and other trade restrictions between the United States, Canada, and Mexico was __________________
North American Free Trade Agreement
Promoted the Great Society Program
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was the leader of the Iranian rebels in the Iran Hostage crisis?
Ruholla Khomeini
The policy of racial segregation that discriminated against people of color in South Africa was called _______________
Apartheid
What nation signed a peace treaty at the Camp David Accords?
Egypt
How did the Reagan Doctrine affect U.S. involvement in other countries?
The Reagan Doctrine promoted stopping Communism before it enslaved other countries allowing the U.S. to exercise peace through strength.
How did the political environmentalists affect America?
Laws were passed that hurt private property owners and hindered the advancement of technology
Who was investigated for transferring money to the Contras from Iran?
Kim Jong II was the Communist dictator of what country?
North Korea
President Nixon signed the SALT 1 Treaty with Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of _______________________
The Soviet Union
A great freedom demonstration took place in China at ____________________________
Tiananmen Square
Name the three elements of Reagans economic policy.
1.Budgets should be balanced
2.the money supply should be stable
3.trade and business should be free from government regulation
In what gulf did North Vietnam allegedly attack the U.S. Navy in 1964?
Gulf of Tonkin