The Reagan Revolution
The Cold War Ends
A Changing Economy
Migration and Immigration
Challenges of
the 21st Century
the 21st Century
Potpourri
Final Jeopardy
100
Starting after WWII, thinkers who supported this political ideology "launched a movement to stop what they saw as the advance of the collectivist state embodied in modern liberalism and the New Deal political order"; starting in the 1980s, they began to also affect the country's culture in the wake of Reagan's election.
What is conservatism?
100
Gorbachev introduced these two policies to reform the Soviet Union, but instead they led to an unraveling of the USSR's totalitarian and communist institutions.
What are glasnost and perestroika?
100
It became the famous four-word slogan uttered by then-candidate Bill Clinton when he discussed his future domestic agenda — especially his plans for ending the country's recession — during the 1992 election.
What is "it's the economy, stupid"?
100
Civil wars, violence from drug cartels, and the promise of better economic opportunities prompted a surge of immigration in the 1980s from this Latin American region.
What is Central America?
100
Spurred by concerns about immigration and deindustrialization, a significant majority of white Americans without college degrees supported this presidential candidate in the 2016 election.
What is Donald Trump?
100
It's why you can buy a T-shirt made from Egyptian cotton, woven in a Bangladeshi factory, and sold on an American e-commerce website — also known as the interdependence of the world's economies, cultures, and populations across borders.
What is globalization?
200
This method of economics slashed taxes and government spending to encourage investments and job growth in the private sector; it became synonymous with the president who sought to implement it.
What is "Reaganomics"?
200
The photo below depicts President Reagan uttering this famous six-word phrase in Berlin on June 12, 1987.
What is "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
200
Membership in these types of organizations dropped from 20 percent to 12 percent after 1980.
What are unions?
200
President Obama created this program to protect some undocumented migrants from deportation if they had illegally entered the country as children.
What is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
200
Founded by an ethnic Yemeni-Saudi Arabian in 1988 to support insurgent activity against the Soviet Union in Central Asia, this shadowy extremist group was known as "the base" in Arabic.
What is Al-Qaida?
200
After failing to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the early years of the Bosnian civil war, the United States used military force in 1999 to prevent ethnic cleansing in this former Serbian province.
What is Kosovo?
300
It's the political ideology that would be most likely to identify with the point of view in this image.
What is liberal or liberalism?
300
It increased from $171 billion to $300 billion during the Reagan administration; the Soviet Union was unable to keep up.
What is military/defense spending?
300
Al Gore claimed to have invented it and older Americans often couldn't figure out how to "merge" onto it, but this invention became a service in most households by the end of the 1990s.
What is the internet, aka "information superhighway"?
300
This 1986 bill attempted to restrict illegal immigration under the Reagan administration; while roughly 3 million undocumented workers received legal residency under the law, eventually immigration started to increase again.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?
300
Designed by the second Bush administration to raise test scores in math and English, this bill was fiercely opposed by teachers for taking away resources if schools didn't meet the law's benchmarks.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
300
These corporate organizations own or control the production of goods or services in a country or countries other than its home country.
What are multinational corporations (MNCs)?
400
In this mid-80s scandal, the Reagan presidency was found to be illegally selling weapons to Iran via Israeli arms dealers to pay for toppling a Marxist Central American regime.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
400
After the United States and the Soviet Union both supported this 1991 military operation, President George H.W. Bush proclaimed the establishment of a "new world order" of unity and international collaboration.
What is Operation Desert Storm/Persian Gulf War?
400
As factories closed, the country's population shifted from states in the _____ Belt to states in the ______ Belt, where the economy increasingly relied on service jobs.
What are Rust and Sun belts?
400
People from this continent had become the country's fastest-growing immigrant group by the 2010s.
What is Asia?
400
Bears, bulls, and brothers (as in Lehman) were involved in this economic, financial, and housing crisis that lasted from 2008 to 2011.
What is the Great Recession?
400
This 1994 political event led to a major shift in the political leadership of the House of Representatives and prompted President Clinton to declare that "the era of big government is over."
What is the Republican Revolution?
400
The Reagan Revolution
Despite his reputation for cutting national programs and taxes, Reagan worked with congressional Democrats to inject $165 billion in new spending into this large federal entitlement program.
500
Han and Chewie might've approved of this program, pushed by the Reagan Administration, which sought to protect the nation from international ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with lasers and particle beams.
What is "Star Wars," aka the Strategic Defense Initiative?
500
Gorbachev and Reagan signed this 1987 treaty in Washington D.C. to eliminate medium-range nuclear missiles.
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty?
500
Seven million of them disappeared between 1980 and 2010 from places such as Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Gary, Indiana.
What are manufacturing jobs?
500
Passed under President Clinton, this bill was another attempt at fixing immigration in the United States; however, like its Reagan-era counterpart, the law did little to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants into the country.
What is the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996?
500
This 2010 political movement wanted to hold the taxes, not the caffeine, as it opposed many of President Obama's major domestic initiatives.
What is the Tea Party?
500
This 2001 law empowered the national government and law enforcement to monitor suspected terrorists and their associates, including the ability to access personal information; however, it has mostly been used in cases unrelated to terrorism.
What is the Patriot Act?
500
Though he had a reputation for cutting government programs and taxes, President Reagan worked with congressional Democrats on a rescue plan to save this large federal program with $165 billion in new funding.
What is Social Security?