Reaganomics
Afghanistan
Lebanon
Key Figures
Latin America
100
Who was Milton Friedman?
An economist who served as an advisor to the Reagan Administration
100
What was the name of the US Representative who met with Mujahedeen fighters and promoted American arms supplies to them?
Charlie Wilson
100
What country invaded Lebanon in 1982 hoping to force the PLO out of the country and install a friendly regime?
Israel
100
Who was Oliver North?
A Marine Corps officer who played a key role in the Iran-Contra Affair
100
What was the name of the scandal where the Reagan Administration began supplying the Nicaraguan Contra movement using the proceeds of arms sold to the Islamic Republic of Iran?
Iran-Contra
200
What is the name of the economic theory promoted by the Reagan White House?
Trickle Down Economics
200
What was the name of the advanced weapon system supplied by the US to the Mujahedeen that was used to shoot down aircraft?
Stinger Missles
200
What did the US do in response to the 1982 Lebanon war?
It contributed troops to a multinational peacekeeping force?
200
Who founded the Moral Majority and what were his goals?
Jerry Falwell Jr., he sought to impose Evangelical Christianity on American society
200
What legislation was the Regan Administration violating during the Iran-Contra affair?
The Boland Amendment
300
What were two features of Ronald Reagan's fiscal policies?
Tax Cuts and Deregulation of the economy
300
Who was an Arab extremist that helped support the Mujahedeen during the war against the Soviets and later became an opponent of the United States?
Osama bin Laden
300
What happened to the US troops sent to Lebanon?
Their barracks were attacked by suicide bombers, and they were subsequently withdrawn from the country
300
Who was the Libyan leader from 1969-2011 that Ronald Reagan escalated tensions with?
Muammar Gaddafi
300
In what Central American country, where America launched a coup in the 1950s codenamed PBSuccess, were American special forces supporting the country's army against Marxist guerillas during the 1980s, despite the atrocious human rights abuses being carried out by the that army.
El Salvador
400
Where did Ronald Reagan focus government spending?
The defense industry
400
Did the war in Afghanistan end when the Soviet military withdrew?
No
400
Who was Faud Shukr and what happened to him?
He was a Lebanese Hezbollah commander who was killed by the Israeli Army in 2024, he is believed to have been the mastermind of the suicide attack on US forces in Beirut
400
Which Egyptian leader was assassinated for signing the Camp David Accords?
Anwar Sadat
400
What is the name of the indigenous people in Guatemala who were targeted by their country's military government during the country's civil war in the 1980s which resulted in several hundred thousand deaths?
The Mayan people
500
What was the name of the expensive defense project which was supposed to create effective missile defenses but failed to produce tangible results?
SDI or Star Wars
500
Which Mujahedeen commander met with Charlie Wilson in the 1980s but would go on to fight against the American occupation of Afghanistan in the 2000s?
Jalahuddin Haqqani
500
What did the Lebanese Christian militia supported by Israel do after their leader was assasinated?
They carried out the Sabra and Shatila Massacre
500
Juhayman al-Otaybi is best known for doing what?
He was an Islamic extremist who led an armed insurrection that took control of the Grand Mosque of Mecca which resulted in several hundred deaths, he was subsequently captured by Saudi government forces and executed after a long standoff
500
What has been one of the long-term consequences of American support for the Guatemalan and El Salvadoran militaries in the 1980s?
The massive wave of migration of refugees from those countries into both Mexico and the United States