Period 9

Conservatism

100

This group makes up a wide percentage of this voting group

Christians

200

The election of this president marks the ascendancy of the Conservative movement as a political force

Reagan

300

Supply-side/Reaganomics has these two priorities in terms of taxes and regulations

decreasing business taxes 

and 

decreasing business regulations

400

Generally speaking what is the Republican viewpoint on social programs during this time period

Let them stay, but reduce waste/fraud/size

500

When it comes to social issues what do Conservatives generally believe in?

pro-life and traditional gender/marriage

End of Cold War

100

As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, what happened to the Berlin Wall

taken down

200

T/F Reagans commitment to defeating communism was greater than his commitment to a smaller federal government. 

T- evidence- Dramatic increase in the military

300

What did Reagan do that contributed to the Soviet economic collapse?

Military spending increase

400

Primary cause of the end of the war

Soviet economic collapse

500

What was the long term impact on the dissolution of the Soviet Union? 

freedom for the former satellite states

continued tension in terms of how close the satellite states get to the West

continued economic connections between former SU members

US as the sole superpower

Interim Foreign Policy

100

Name one place where the US did not get involved during this period and the loss of life was horrific. 

Rwanda

200

Describe the role of terrorism during this period.

Intermittent- not an overarching priority

both international and domestic

300

Describe the priorities in the Middle East during the Clinton and W. Bush years. 

Mediating peace deals between Israel and Muslim countries in the Middle East

400

Explain why peacekeeping would be a term used to describe the use of US military force in the world during this period.

Enter into civil wars to stop ethic cleansing in places like the Balkans

500

Describe how foreign policy decisions were made in the in between.

no over arching strategy per se

humanitarian sort of

War on Terror

100

The response to what event launched the war on terror

9/11

200

Name two primary places where the war on terror was fought. 

Afghanistan and Iraq

300

Who were in the axis of evil? 

Iran, Iraq, North Korea

400

Which of these two words describe US foreign policy during this period: isolationist or interventionist? Explain. 

Interventionist- getting involved often before the worst things happen

500

Explain what the Patriot Act was and why it was controversial. 

Response to the new realization of vulnerability due to 9/11 greatly increasing surveillance and bringing up civil liberties issues