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Which cable television channel, that was created in the 1980s, had a big impact on music and on the culture of young people?
MTV
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What disease began to spread in the 1980s and caused panic in the U.S.?
A.I.D.S.
100
Which musician released the bestselling album in history in the 1980s? What is the name of the album?
Michael Jackson; Thriller
100
What does PC stand for (the vocabulary term in this unit)?
personal computer
100
Did President Reagan make the U.S. more liberal or more conservative?
conservative
200
What happened to the U.S.’s national debt during Reagan’s Presidency (it was paid off, it got a lot smaller, it stayed the same, it got a lot bigger)?
it got a lot bigger
200
What is the great change called that began in the 1980s and continues today in which society is moving away from industrialization towards computers?
the Information Age
200
Which volcano erupted in the U.S. in 1980 and killed 57 people? Which state is the volcano in?
Mt. Saint Helens; Washington
200
What was the name of the U.S. space shuttle that exploded in the 1980s, resulting in all 7 people on board being killed?
the Challenger
200
What happened to President Reagan as a result of the Iran Contra Affair (in terms of punishment)?
nothing
300
What event is seen as the beginning of the end of the Cold War?
the Berlin Wall was torn down
300
Who was the Muslim extremist that led a group in Afghanistan that the U.S. gave support to during the 1980s?
Osama bin Laden
300
In the U.S., people pay different percentage rates of income taxes depending on their levels of income (the higher the income, the higher the percentage rate). What is this system called?
a graduated tax structure
300
Who became President after Reagan?
George H.W. Bush (must state full name)
300
During Reagan’s Presidency, the U.S. Government decreased the amount of money it was spending on ________________________ and increased the amount of money it was spending on ________________________.
welfare/the poor; the military/defense/weapons
400
During his Presidency, Reagan ordered the U.S. military to invade a nation in order to remove its communist government from power (which the U.S. military successfully did). What was the nation that the U.S. invaded?
Grenada
400
What was the name of the oil tanker that ran aground in the 1980s causing a huge oil spill that resulted in an environmental disaster? Where did the oil spill occur?
Exxon Valdez; off the coast of Alaska
400
State 2 effects that have occurred as a result of the change from being a society based on industrialization to one based on computers.
(must have 2 of the following): the types of jobs that were available changed, which left a lot of people unable to get jobs since they were not trained for “high-tech” jobs; the way that products are bought and sold changed, which changed businesses a lot; the way that schools educate children has started to change since students now have to be prepared for more than factory work; the types of things that people do in their free time changed because of the inventions of new technologies like cable television and the computer
400
How did the U.S. Government contribute to some Muslim extremists becoming more powerful (be specific)?
the U.S. gave some Muslim extremists money, weapons, and training in the 1980s in order to help them as they fought against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan
400
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in the mid to late 1980s who tried to get President Reagan to agree to stop building nuclear weapons?
Mikhail Gorbachev
500
List Reagan's 3 goals that he wanted to achieve during his Presidency:
1. win the Cold War; 2. lower drug use in the U.S. by using the War on Drugs; 3. lower income taxes on the rich and middle class
500
Reagan was worried about communism spreading to the nation of _____________. As a result, Reagan wanted to give money to _____________, who were fighting against the communists. When Congress said no, some of Reagan’s advisors decided to raise money illegally by taking some weapons that the U.S. was storing in the nation of _________________ and selling them to the nation of _____________ and giving the money that they made to _________________. Reagan's advisors were hoping that the nation that they sold weapons to would help get some American _____________________ released from another nation.
Nicaragua; the Contras; Israel; Iran; the Contras; hostages
500
President ________________________ had the U.S. military invade the nation of ________________________ in the 1980s in order to remove its leader named ________________________ from power because he allowed drugs to be sold that ended up in the U.S.
George H.W. Bush; Panama; Manuel Noriega
500
During Reagan’s Presidency, a group of Muslim extremists called ________________________, who were in the nation of ________________________ , took several Americans hostage.
Hezbollah; Lebanon
500
President ________________________ had the U.S. military conduct airstrikes on the nation of ________________________ in the 1980s in order to punish its leader named ________________________ because he helped plan two terrorist attacks that killed Americans.
Reagan; Libya; Muammar Gaddafi