American Pageant Chapter 39 by Ashton Wong

What was the slogan of Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign?

"It's morning in America"

What was a notable evangelical Christian group that became a leading actor in New Right campaigns?

The Moral Majority

What did FDR champion against big business?

What did Reagan champion against big government?

"forgotten man";

"common man"

Where did Reagan grow up?

Where was he a sports announcer in the 1930s?

small Illinois town

Iowa

What type of star did Reagan become in Hollywood in the 1940s?

B-grade star

What organization was Reagan the president of during the McCarthy era of the early 1950s?

What job did he take in 1954?

The Screen Actors Guild

Spokesman for General Electric

What state was Reagan governor of from 1966-1974?

California

What anti-Carter movement began to gather steam in his own party leading into the 1980 election?

The "ABC" movement (Anybody but Carter)

What Massachusetts senator challenged Carter for the 1980 democratic candidacy?

What sullied his campaign?

Edward Kennedy

a 1969 automobile accident on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts

What liberal Republican Congressman candidate garnered 7% of the popular vote in 1980 and ran as independent?

John Anderson

Carter was the first elected president to be unseated by voters since who?

Herbert Hoover (in 1932)

What former presidential candidate and leader of Democratic liberals was one victim of the "conservative windstorm" that allowed Republicans to gain control of the Senate?

George McGovern

In what state did Carter preserve 100 million acres for national parks, forests, and wildlife ranges shortly before the end of his term as one of his last acts?

Alaska

What prize did Jimmy Carter receive in 2002?

The Nobel Peace Prize

For how many days were the hostages from the Iranian Hostage Crisis in captivity?

When were the hostages released?

444 days

Reagan's Inauguration Day (Jan 20, 1981)

What did Reagan state regarding the government in his 1981 inaugural address?

Who was assembled in Reagan's conservative cabinet?

"Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem."

"the best and the rightest"

What was Reagan's economic strategy known as?

"Reaganomics"

Who was Britain's first female prime minister?

What was the nickname given to her and Reagan?

Margaret Thatcher

"Ronnie and Maggie"

What phrase graced the sign on the door of the airplane that brought the Iranian hostages back to America?

"Welcome Back to Freedom"

In 1973, the budget of what departments surpassed the budget of the Department of Defense?

What were two entitlement programs that would start to expand?

The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Social Security and Medicare

What was the official ballot title of the "tax revolt" that took place in California in 1978?

Proposition 13

What were the southern conservative Democrats who supported Reagan known as?

"boll weevils"

What event brought Reagan an outpouring of sympathy and support?

a failed assassination attempt in March of 1981

What did Reagan quip about Democrats in regard to taxes?

they had "never met a tax they didn't hike"

What theory drove Reagan's tax cuts?

supply-side economics

What rate did unemployment nearly reach in 1982?

11%

What was the economic slump of 1981-82 known as?

What Carter organization's policies had triggered it in 1979?

the "Reagan recession"

Federal Reserve Board

What was the nickname for young urban professionals who sported Rolex watches and drove BMWs and were symbolic of the new income stratification?

"yuppies"

What did Reagan try to close in the armaments race with the Soviet Union?

a "window of vulnerability"

What did Reagan denounce the Soviet Union as?

the "focus of evil" in the modern world

What was Reagan's hypothetical high-technology missile-defense system called?

What was it popularly dubbed by the public?

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

"Star Wars"

What was the name of the union that helped to impose martial law upon Poland?

"Solidarity"

What did airline did Soviets blast from the skies because it inexplicably violated Soviet airspace?

What sea did hundreds of civilians fall into after it was shot down?

Korean passenger airline

Sea of Ohkotsk

What was boycotted by the Soviets in 1984?

The Olympic Games in Los Angeles

What country was invaded by Israel in June of 1982?

Lebanon

What did Democrats begin to call Reagan after a suicide bombing on United States Marines in Lebanon caused him no political damage?

the "Teflon president"

What were the anti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua called?

What were the American-backed opponents of these anti-American revolutionaries called?

Where did administration spokespeople claim Nicaraguan leftists were shipping weapons to?

Sandinistas

contras

Revolutionary Forces in El Salvador

To what island did Reagan dispatch a heavy-firepower invasion force to overthrow the Marxist coup in power?

Grenada

Who was the Democratic nominee in 1984?

What New York Congresswoman was his running mate and the first female to ever appear on a major presidential ticket?

Walter Mondale

Geraldine Ferraro

What states did Reagan lose to Mondale in the election of 1984?

Minnesota and D.C.

Who became the Soviet leader in March of 1985?

Mikhail Gorbachev

What was the Soviet strategy that meant "openness" and aimed at ventilating the secretive stuffiness of Soviet society by introducing free speech?

Glasnost

What was the Soviet strategy that meant "restructuring" and was intended to revive the Soviet economy by adopting free market practices?

Perestroika

Where did the first of four US-Soviet summits take place?

Geneva

Where was the summit meeting that broke down after Reagan stormed out located?

Reykjavik, Iceland

What treaty was signed at the third US-Soviet summit in Washington D.C. and banned missiles from Europe?

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

Where did the final US-Soviet summit take place?

Moscow

Name the four locations of the summit meetings between Reagan and Gorbachev.

Geneva, Switzerland

Reykjavik, Iceland

Washington D.C., United States

Moscow, Russia

Who did the United States back in the Philippines?

What dictator was overthrown?

Corazon Aquino

Ferdinand Marcos

Upon what country did Reagan order a lightning air raid strike in February of 1986 because they sponsored terrorist attacks, including a bomb blast in West Berlin killing a US serviceman?

Libya

What Iraqi dictator did the United States continue to support even after secretly selling weapons to his adversary, Iran?

Saddam Hussein

What cast a dark shadow over the Reagan record on foreign policy?

The Iran-Contra affair

How much money did Reagan add to the national debt?

Nearly $2 trillion

Who launched the Moral Majority?

What school was founded by him?

Reverend Jerry Falwell

Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia

What did Falwell's strategy of marketing using radio and TV classify him as?

a "televangelist"

What did feminism in the 1960s declare?

"the personal was political"

What form of politics did the religious right practice?

"identity politics"

What disease became an epidemic in America during the eighties and saw a memorial quilt created in its name?

What was one of its nicknames?

What political activists organization emerged out of the epidemic?

AIDS

the "gay plague"

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)

What was the principal instrument in the "cultural wars"?

The Courts

Who became the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court?

Where was she from?

Sandra Day O'Connor

Arizona

What two Supreme Court cases challenged the ideas of affirmative action?

Ward's Cove Packing v. Antonia (1989) and Martin v. Wilks (1989)

In what case did the Supreme Court partially compromise the protections given by Roe v. Wade?

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)

In what case did the Supreme Court rule that states could restrict access to abortion as long as they did not place an "undue burden" on the woman?

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

What ultra-conservative Supreme Court nominee did the Democratic Senate reject in 1987?

Robert Bork

What constituted the "double mountain" of deficits?

the federal budget deficit and the international trade deficit

What bank required government intervention to prevent a catastrophic failure in 1984?

Continental Illinois Bank

What day signified the largest one day stock market drop in history to that point?

How many points did the market drop?

Black Monday (October 19, 1987)

508 points

What magazine heralded Black Monday as "the final collapse of the money culture [and] the death knell of the 1980s?"

Newsweek

What was the derogatory name for the pack of Democrats who tried to become the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988?

The "Seven Dwarfs"

Which Colorado senator was forced to drop out of the 1988 presidential race after charges of sexual misconduct?

Gary Hart

Who was the African American contender for president in 1988 who hoped to forge a "rainbow coalition" of minorities and the disadvantaged?

Jesse Jackson

Who ultimately became the Democratic candidate in 1988?

Who was the Republican Candidate?

Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis

Vice President George H. W. Bush

Where was George HW Bush's father a senator?

According to the book, what was George HW Bush born with in his mouth?

Where did George H. W. Bush receive his education?

What business did he amass a modest fortune of his own from?

Connecticut

a silver ladle

Yale

Oil Business

Name all four political offices held by George H. W. Bush before his election to the presidency.

Emissary to China, Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Vice President

When inaugurated as president, what did George HW Bush promise to work for?

"a kinder, gentler America"

Where did hundreds of thousands of Chinese demonstrators protest for a democratic society?

What 30 foot statue did they model after the Statue of Liberty?

Beijing's Tiananmen Square

The "Goddess of Democracy"

What countries saw communist regimes topple in 1989?

Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania

Who was the president of the Russian Republic became the leader of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union?

Boris Yeltsin

What did the ex-Soviet states loosely confederate into?

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

What did some observers see in the developments of the fall of communism?

"the end of history"

What did Americans joke that the USSR had become?

the "USS were"

What agreement between the United States and Russia committed both powers to reducing their long-range nuclear arsenals by two-thirds within ten years?

the START II accord

What area of Russia declared independence in 1991 but was shut down?

Chechnya

What country was racked by "ethnic cleansing" campaigns against minorities?

Yugoslavia

Who became the president of South Africa four years after his release from prison?

How many years had he spent in prison?

Nelson Mandela

27

What drug lord and dictator were American troops sent to capture in Panama in 1989?

Manuel Noriega

Who was the dictator of Iraq?

What country did he invade in 1990 for oil to pay war bills?

Saddam Hussein

Kuwait

What organization unanimously condemned Iraq's invasion of Kuwait?

United Nations Security Council

How many countries, not including the United States, contributed to the armed forces sent to the Arabian peninsula?

28

For how many days did the United States and U.N. allies bomb Iraq?

What did Iraq launch in response?

37 days

"Scud" short range ballistic missiles

What was the land invasion of Iraq known as?

How long did it last?

What was this war/invasion nicknamed?

Operation Desert Storm

4 days

the "hundred-hour war"

What did Bush declare after the success of the Gulf War?

"By God, we've kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all!"

What act prohibited discrimination against citizens with physical or mental disabilities?

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

What department of Bush's challenged the legality of college scholarships targeted for racial minorities?

Department of Education

What conservative African American jurist did Bush nominate for the Supreme Court?

What organizations opposed him?

Clarence Thomas

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and NOW (National Organization for Women)

Who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual assault?

Where was she a professor?

What did she teach?

Anita Hill

University of Oklahoma

Law

What opened up between the two major parties, especially during the Clarence Thomas hearing?

a "gender gap"

What did Bush belligerently declare during his 1988 campaign?

"Read my lips - no new taxes."

What Georgia representative led a revolt against the budget deal of George Bush?

Newt Gingrich