USH U9: Jeopardy Questions

Otherwise known as Star Wars, this was the plan to develop technology to shoot down Soviet missiles from space and satellites using lasers. The Soviets were worried about it, but there was no evidence that there was any science reality behind it. It was Reagan’s doing.

SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)

The Camp David Accords of 1978 under Carter’s administration was a peace settlement between these two countries.

Israel and Egypt

This was a major legislative reform that the Clinton administration attempted to pass, but was publicly defeated in 1994. The first lady headed up the effort.

Healthcare

The fact that an impeachment proceeding is a check from the legislative branch on the executive branch makes this a good example of this theme.

Balance of Power

This contributor to the breakup of the Soviet Union is a Russian word that means economic freedom.

Perestroika

This is the name of the terrorist group in Lebanon that is funded by Iran. They took hostages from many countries in the early 1980s during Lebanon’s civil war. We actually were making deals to try and get those hostages out, using some money and selling some arms to Iran.

Hezbollah

Trouble between the United States and Iran has been pronounced the past several decades, but it really goes back to the overthrow of this popularly elected leader in Iran.

Mossadegh

The American hostages have been held in Iran for 444 days. They were released on the day that this US president was inaugurated.

Reagan

President Ford’s WIN campaign was a failed attempt to address this economic challenge.

Inflation

These were passed in the first year of the Trump presidency and are usually something that most people like, but these were criticized for mainly benefitting the wealthy.

Tax cuts

With regard to how it would stimulate economic growth, this is one of the main assertions or claims about how Reaganomics should work.

Lower taxes (would give people money to spend and they they would spend that money, and that would get the economy going)

These were the two candidates from the two major political parties in the 2000 election. One of the closest elections we’ve ever had.

Bush Jr v Gore

This post 9/11 legislative act encouraged Americans to sacrifice some liberties to gain more security.

Patriot Act

This issue would come to the forefront of global attention in the 1990s with meeting in Rio and Kyoto, Japan, among others.

Climate Change

This was the deadly disease that spread during the 1980s, initially affecting mainly gay…

AIDS

One of George H. W. Bush Sr’s most remembered quotes is a promise to not do this.

Raising taxes

This is one of the main reasons why the US did not ratify the Kyoto protocol of 1997.

They did not have the same requirements for lowering their emissions.

This was the long term result of the Soviet Afghan war of the 1980s for the Afghans.

Destabilization of Afghanistan, Power Vacuum, Taliban

A nationalistic critic of the WTO might argue this.

They want their own sovereignty.

(If we join this other organization, we have to obey by their rules, we want to make our own rules, this is our country, we want sovereignty for our own economic policy.)

This contributor to the breakup of the Soviet Union is the Russian word for openness, encouraged criticism of the government.

Glasnost

This potential amendment to the constitution wishes to protect women’s rights. It passed through congress but was not ratified by enough states in the original time frame, but now it has.

The ERA

This Nixon policy can be seen as a precursor to the end of the Cold War because it began efforts to reach out and engage with our adversaries.

Detente

This supreme court decision protected a women’s right to privacy in the case of abortion by saying that states could not restrict the practice in the first trimester.

This is one of many reasons why the Clinton administration is viewed in hindsight with fondness.

Economic expansion, relative peace compared to the Cold War and after 9/11, declining poverty and crime rates, great music

This was the official reason why the first Gulf war was fought against Iraq in 1991.

Official reason was the liberate Kuwait, cynics would say it was because of the control of oil

This ended being the deciding state in the 2000 election and the result was so close.

Florida

Military invasions on these two countries in the early 21st century are connected at least in part to 9/11.

Iraq and Afghanistan

This is one of the main reasons why the days of 70 or 80 percent approval ratings are probably in the past.

Political polarization → Partisan news sources

(Extreme candidates are represented and the fact that the algorithms on our phones and devices feed us information that we already agree with. It used to be that everybody watched the same news so we were all operating off the same facts, so we can disagree about how to deal with those facts but at least we agreed with what the facts were. Now we get completely different stories from our media and that’s causing extreme polarization.)

Our electoral college system is often criticized because the electoral winner is not necessarily the winner of the popular vote. This happened three times in the 19th century. It did not happen in the 20th century, but these are two election years that it did happen in the 21st century.

2000 and 2016 ( Bush v Gore election and Hillary v Trump election)

Critics of Reaganomics argue that this assumption in particular is flawed.

The wealth will trickle down (no guarantee that the wealthy will send that extra money on things that will end up trickling down)

The busing policy in the early 1970s was allowed by the supreme court decision Swan v Charlotte Meckenberg board of education. It was a controversial policy, but aside from the ethnic or racial aspects of it, what was one of the main complaints about the policy?

Busing kids away from their neighborhoods to go to school somewhere else.

This country just north of Israel had a civil war in the 1980s, and many US marines were killed there while trying to help.

Lebanon

Considering the presidents from Ford through Trump’s first term, this is one that had only a single term.

Ford, Carter, Bush Sr

This book by Rachel Carson published in 1962…

Silent Spring

This author of the Feminine Mystique was a founder of the National Organization for Women.

Betty Frieden

Because it has to be passed through the federal congress and then ratified by ¾ of the state legislatures, how an amendment becomes part of the constitution is a good example of this theme.

Balance of Power

Since Nixon resigned upon the threat of impeachment, technically he was not impeached since the trial in the senate did not take place. These are the two of the three presidents in US history who have been impeached. One of them twice.

Trump, Clinton, Johnson

This was the cause of the recession relating to the shortage of gasoline in 1973.

OPEC embargo (they were penalizing us because we were siding with Israel and the Arab nations were supporting the Palestinians, so basically were penalizing us for helping Israel)

(Yom Kippur war caused the embargo)

This is the country to which Raegan officials were trying to send money from armed sales to Iran, in violation of the Boland amendment.

Nicaragua

This school tragedy in 1999 brought the issue of gun control to the forefront.

Columbine

This is the supranational organization formed by the updated 1994 version of GATT that served as the referee on trade disputes between countries.

WTO

This meeting in 2015 has seen as one of Obama’s major accomplishments in bring foreign countries together on the climate change issue, although Trump officially pulled America out in 2017. Biden rejoined, then Trump pulled us out again in 2025.

Paris Agreement

The Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989 were pushing for this.

Democratic reforms

This drug was like a plague in impoverished inner city populations during the 1980s.

Cocaine

These riots or protests in New York City at the end of the 1960s would be a prelude to a more active and organized movement for LGBT rights.

Stonewall Riots

Over a dozen members of Reagan’s administration faced criminal charges as a result of this scandal, which involved the illegal deals with two separate countries and hurt Reagan’s approval rating in the short term in 1987

Iran Contra Scandal

This is the main reason why the Iranian students took American hostages in the US embassy in Iran in 1979.

They wanted the Shah back.

This is how the Carter administration reacted to the toxic soil and water at Love Canal in Niagara Falls.

They created a superfund which is paid by the responsible party, and then use the money to move out the residents.

This government body ultimately ordered Nixon to turn over audio tapes that he claimed he did not have to give up due to executive privilege.

Supreme Court

This is a political action group which gained significant influence in the 1980s. They further a conservative and religious agenda such as prayer in public schools and strict laws against abortion.

The Moral Majority