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What is the name of the bestselling album in history?
Thriller
100
Which group of people was particularly discriminated against in the 1980s because of A.I.D.S.?
homosexuals
100
What videogame became very popular in the 1980s and is seen as a symbol of the 80s?
Pacman
100
Who did the Soviet Union go to war with in the 1980s, which ended up weakening their nation?
Afghanistan
200
What was the name of the group who were fighting against the communist government in Nicaragua in the 1980s?
the Contras
200
Why did the U.S. go deeper in debt during Reagan’s Presidency?
he spent a lot of money on the arms race/military
200
In what state is Mt. Saint Helens located?
Washington
300
Near which state did the Exxon Valdez oil spill occur?
Alaska
300
How did President Reagan win the Cold War?
he spent a lot money on the arms race in the U.S., which forced the Soviet Union to spend a lot of money and the Soviet Union eventually ran out of money and fell apart
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
400
What happened to President Reagan as a result of the Iran Contra Affair?
nothing
400
Who was the leader of Panama that the U.S. removed from power in the 1980s?
Manuel Noriega
400
What does A.I.D.S. stand for?
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
400
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in the mid 1980s and tried to get President Reagan to agree to stop building nuclear weapons?
Mikhail Gorbachev
500
List Reagans 3 goals that he wanted to achieve during his Presidency:
1. win the Cold War; 2. lower drug use by using the War on Drugs; 3. lower income taxes on the rich and middle class
500
List two nations that the U.S. attacked and/or invaded during Reagan's Presidency:
Libya and Grenada
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 try to convince _________________ to release American hostages being held in the nation of _________________.
Nicaragua; the Contras; Israel; Iran; the Contras; Hezbollah; Lebanon