Chapter 31 - From the "Age of Limits" to the "Age of Reagan"

Carter

Carter

________ devoted much of his time to the problems of energy and the economy.

Reagan

________ claimed that SDI, through lasers and satellites, could provide an effective shield against incoming missiles and thus make nuclear war obsolete.

Soviet Union

The collapse of the ________ in 1989- 1991 had left the United States in the unanticipated position of being the only real superpower in the world.

Sunbelt

The ________ included the Southeast(including Florida), the Southwest (particularly Texas), and above all, California, which became the nations most populous state, surpassing New York, in 1964.

Gerald Ford

________ inherited the presidency under unenviable circumstances.

Gulf War

The ________ preserved an independent nation and kept an important source of oil from falling into the hands of Iraq.

1980's attacks

A series of terrorist acts in the ________ airplanes, cruise ships, commercial and diplomatic posts; the seizing of American and other Western hostages- alarmed and frightened much of the Western world.

Cold War

The escalation of ________ tensions and the slowing of arms control initiatives helped produce an important popular movement in Europe and the United States in the 1980s calling for an end to nuclear weapons buildups.

Jimmy Carter

________, a former governor of Georgia who organized a brilliant primary campaign by offering honesty, piety, and an outsiders skepticism of the federal government The Trials of Jimmy Carter.

Reagan

________ was a master of television, a gifted public speaker, and- in public at least- rugged, fearless, and seemingly impervious to danger or misfortune.

Carter

________ had campaigned for the presidency as an "outsider, "representing Americans suspicious of entrenched bureaucracies and complacent public officials.

Reagan

________ and Gorbachev exchanged cordial visits to each others capitals, the two superpowers signed a treaty eliminating American and Soviet intermediate- range nuclear forces (INF) from Europe- the most significant arms control agreement of the nuclear age.

Reagan

________ owed his election to the widespread disillusionment with Carter and to the crises and disappointments that many voters associated with him.

Afghanistan

Only weeks after the hostage seizure, on December 27, 1979, Soviet troops invaded ________, the mountainous Islamic nation lying between the USSR and Iran

Second Great Awakening

Indeed, in the 1970s the United States experienced the beginning of a major religious revival, perhaps the most powerful since the ________ of the early nineteenth century.

New Right

Conservative Christians were an important part, but only a part, of what became known as the “________” - a diverse but powerful coalition that enjoyed rapid growth in the 1970s and early 1980s