american history chapter 30

By increasing America’s arms buildup in its defense against communism, President Reagan abandoned the diplomatic policy of

Richard Nixon.

Which of the following issues did the New Right reject during the 1980 presidential election?

Increasing federal spending on social welfare programs

In the 1988 presidential election, George H. W. Bush defeated

Michael Dukakis

Between 1973 and 1992, the productivity of American workers

increased by 1 percent a year.

Who did President Reagan christen as the "heroes for the eighties"?

Self-made entrepreneurs

Which of the following was one of the factors leading to Ronald Reagan’s Republican victory in 1980?

His positive attitude and decisive demeanor

Why did the Russian economy fall further behind that of capitalist societies in the postwar years?

Soviet businesses lacked market incentives to improve and innovate.

Iran released the American hostages and ended the long hostage crisis

on the day Carter left office after the 1980 presidential election.

After the 1980 election, which of the following parties gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1954?

The Republicans

The profits from the secret sale of arms to Iran in the 1980s were used to

aid the Contras, an opposition group in Nicaragua.

Which of the following was the central theme of Carter’s foreign policy throughout his administration?

A commitment to human rights

Which of the following is true regarding the 1991 Persian Gulf War?

The United States acted with the approval of the UN Security Council.

Which of the following additions to the Republican platform reflected the influence of the Religious Right in 1980?

A mandatory death penalty for certain crimes

The impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services was that

states won the right to restrict the use of public funds and institutions for abortions.

In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded

Microsoft.

In 1985, over two hundred American marines were killed in an explosion in

Lebanon.

The Moral Majority was founded by which of the following evangelical Christians?

Jerry Falwell

Supply-side economics, as practiced by the Reagan administration, rested on

using tax cuts to stimulate investment, which would eventually result in higher tax revenues.

Which of the following describes the New Right in 1980?

its leaders opposed big government and feared declining social morality.

The person who contributed most directly to the rise of conservatism in American politics after World War II was

Barry Goldwater.

Which of the following was a lasting legacy of Ronald Reagan?

His conservative judicial appointments

During the Reagan administration, the CIA funded an anticommunist movement in

Central America.

During the 1970s and 1980s, which of the following nations became the second largest economy in the world?

Japan

Which of the following is true of the Reagan presidency?

The national debt tripled.

America’s main economic competitors in the world market in the 1980s were

West Germany and Japan.

Which of the following describes Ronald Reagan’s showing in the 1984 election?

Ronald Reagan won a landslide victory

Conservative Protestants and Catholics joined together as part of the Religious Right and condemned

feminism.

On which of the following issues would the conservative Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation have registered fierce opposition in the 1980s?

Increasing corporate regulation

Which of the following was true of Republicans in the 1980s?

Their core was upper-middle-class white Protestants.

Which of the following describes Sandra Day O’Connor?

She was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court.

American foreign policy changed dramatically as a result of President Reagan’s rapport with

Mikhail Gorbachev.

Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory can be attributed to

Americans’ frustrations over the nation’s declining prosperity and power.

Which of the following is an important conservative organizational think tank that gave institutional support to the New Right?

The American Enterprise Institute

The Moral Majority favored

a ban on abortion

How did the conservatives of the Cold War era differ from the American conservatives of the early twentieth century?

Cold War conservatives reversed their earlier isolationism.

Which of the following factors made it possible for Barry Goldwater to capture the Republican Party nomination for president in 1964?

His publication of two books, widely read and praised by conservatives

Which of the following was an outcome of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981?

A $200 billion cut in the federal government’s annual revenue

Which of the following was true of the United States in the mid-1980s?

The United States registered a negative balance of international payments

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost
and perestroika resulted in

a new willingness to tolerate significant changes in Soviet society.

Which is true of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s?

More Americans died of AIDS than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined.

Why has it been so difficult for conservative politicians to shrink the size and scope of the federal government?

The government is entrenched in the social, economic, and defense welfare of Americans.

Which of the following precipitated a crisis in American-Iranian relations in 1979?

American support for the deposed shah of Iran

Reaganomics increased the share of wealth held by

corporations and wealthy Americans.

The well-known movie actor Ronald Reagan gained political experience after World War II in

he Screen Actors Guild.

What was President Carter’s major achievement for world peace in 1978?

Brokering a "framework for peace" for Egypt and Israel