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A crisis developed in American-Iranian relations in 1979 because of
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American support for the deposed Shah of Iran
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The Reagan administration achieved all of the following except
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shrinking the size of the federal government.
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All of the following were costs of the decades-long cold war except
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a stunting of economic growth and job creation.
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Why has it been so difficult for conservative politicians to shrink the size and scope of the federal government?
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The government is entrenched in the social, economic, and defense welfare of the Americans
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Which is true of the AIDS crisis?
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More Americans have died of AIDS than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam wars combined.
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What was President Carter's response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979?
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-He called for increased military spending. -He withdrew the SALT II treaty from the Senate. -He halted U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union. -He declared an American boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. All of the above.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, which of the following nations became the second largest economy in the world?
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Japan
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In the 1980s, which of the following would the conservative Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation oppose the most?
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Welfare reform
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Which of the following people most directly contributed to the rise of conservatism in American politics after World War II?
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Barry Goldwater
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Which of the following is true regarding the 1991 Persian Gulf War?
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The United States acted with the approval of the UN Security Council.
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Which of the following additions to the Republican platform reflected the influence of the Religious Right?
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A mandatory death penalty for certain crimes
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In the decades after the end of the cold war the United States faced which of the following challenges?
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- A multipolar world with centers of power in Europe, the US, and Asia - The anti-Western ideology of radical Islam - The emergence of the European Union as a massive trading bloc - The tremendous growth of China All of the above
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Which of the following is true of the United States in the mid-1980s?
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The United States registered a negative balance of international payments.
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Who were America's main economic competitors in the world market of 1980-2000?
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Germany and Japan
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What allowed the Republicans to win the presidential election in 1980 and bring about a generational change in American politics?
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-The emergence of Ronald Reagan -The Iran hostage crisis -The grass-roots activism of conservatives in the 1960s and 1970s -The economic crisis of the 1970s All of the above
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Profits from the secret sale of arms to Iran in the 1980s were used to
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aid the Contras in Nicaragua
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Who did President Reagan christen as the "heroes for the eighties"?
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Self-made entrepreneurs
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Which of the following is an important conservative organizational think tank that gave institutional support to the New Right?
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The American Enterprise Institue
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President Reagan's domestic agenda was most complicated by
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needing to balance the programs of religious conservatives and economic conservatives
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The Moral Majority favored
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a ban on abortion
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President Carter's greatest achievement for world peace was
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brokering a "framework for peace" between Egypt and Israel at Camp David
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The Persian Gulf War was popular with Americans for all of the following reasons except
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it gained the United States vital new territories in the oil-rich Middle East.
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During the Reagan administration, the CIA funded an anticommunist movement in
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- Afghanistan - Angola - Central America - Mozambique All of the above
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Which of the following is not true of the United States since World War II?
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The labor movement continues to grow exponentially
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika resulted in
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a willingness to tolerate significant changes in Soviet society
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Which of the following is true of Republicans in the 1980s?
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Their core was upper-middle-class white Protestants
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Which of the following statements are accurate regarding the rise to power of Donald Trump?
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-He made his fortune in real estate. -Trump's showcase project in the 1980s was Trump Towers in New York City. -His marriages and divorces were covered intensively in the media. -He lived an extravagant lifestyle. All of the above
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The Republicans in the 1980 election benefited from all of the following except
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supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment
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Between 1973 and 1992, the productivity of American workers grew at the rate of
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1 percent a year.
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In the 1988 presidential election, George H. W. Bush defeated Democratic candidate
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Michael Dukakis.
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President Ronald Reagan's chief advisor during his first term in office was
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James A. Baker III.
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By 1985, fewer Americans worked in the steel industry than they did at
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McDonald's
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In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded
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Microsoft.
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In 1988, President George H. W. Bush selected which of the following individuals to be his vice presidential candidate?
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Dan Quayle
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Which one of the following was not called for by the New Right during the 1980 presidential election?
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Increasing federal spending on social welfare programs
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Iran released the American hostages and ended the long hostage crisis
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on the day Carter left office after the 1980 presidential election.
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In the 1984 national election, Ronald Reagan
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won in a landslide.
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All of the following undermined support for the liberal agenda of the Democratic Party in the late 1960s and into the 1970s except
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corruption scandals involving prominent Democrats
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Conservative Protestants and Catholics joined together as part of the Religious Right and condemned all of the following except
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poverty.
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Which of the following is true of the Iran-Contra Affair?
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-The American government sold arms to Iranian terrorists to attain freedom for hostages. -The American government illegally funded the Contras who were trying to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. -Oliver North carried out the plan with the White House's approval. -When asked about the program, President Reagan claimed not to remember anything about it. All of the above.
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All of the following were policies of the Reagan administration except
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cuts in defense spending
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Throughout Carter's administration, the central theme of its foreign policy was
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a commitment to human rights
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The New Right supported all of the following except
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increased social spending
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Supply-side economics as practiced by the Reagan administration rested on the theory that
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tax cuts would stimulate investment and eventually result in higher tax revenues.
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The New Right
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disliked a powerful federal government and feared declining social morality
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All of the following allowed Barry Goldwater to capture the Republican Party nomination for president in 1964 except
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his telegenic presence and public speaking charisma
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The greatest effect on American foreign policy came as a result of President Reagan's rapport with which world leader?
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Successful American businessmen of the 1980s included all of the following individuals except
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Akio Morita
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In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the Supreme Court
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upheld a state's right to restrict the use of public funds and institutions for abortions
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Ronald Reagan was victorious in 1980 partially due to
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the frustration of many Americans over the loss of American economic and political supremacy in the world
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I have wondered at times what The Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through congress.
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- Ronald Reagan
