Chapter 29, 30, & 31 – Flashcards
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How did the united states respond to the OPEC oil embargo in the early 1970s?
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Congress passed a law limiting highway speeds to 55 miles per hour.
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Rachel Carson is associated with
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the rebirth of environmental activism.
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What accounted for the dramatic decline of the American labor movement in the 1970s and 1980s?
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The process of deindustrialization
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Who masterminded the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex?
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Members of the Committee to Re-elect the President
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Which of the following was the cause of President Nixon's downfall?
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His obstruction of justice in the Watergate matter
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In 1975, which city was loaned money by the federal government and granted a moratorium municipal debt in order to stave off bankruptcy
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New York City
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In an attempt to combat stagflation, President Carter
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deregulated the transportation industries.
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Which of the following factors accounted for the demographic growth of the Sunbelt in the 1970s and 1980s?
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Deindustrialization
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In the case of Bakke v. University of California (1978), which of the following issues was under review?
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Affirmative action
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In the case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the purchase and use of
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Contraception
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The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was based on
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the right to privacy.
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Which of the following developments accounted for the dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home in the 1970s?
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Stagflation
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Christian activists in the late 1970s and early 1980s made which of the following issues a high priority?
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Combatting the proliferation of pornography in American society
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How did the conservatives of the Cold War era differ from the American conservatives of the early twentieth century?
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Cold War conservatives reversed their earlier isolationism.
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The person who contributed most directly to the rise of conservatism in American politics after World War II was
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Barry Goldwater
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On which of the following issues would the conservative Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation have registered fierce opposition in the 1980s?
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Increasing corporate regulation
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What was President Carter's major achievement for world peace in 1978?
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Brokering a "framework for peace" for Egypt and Israel
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Which of the following was one of the factors leading to Ronald Reagan's Republican victory in 1980?
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His positive attitude and decisive demeanor
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Supply-side economics, as practiced by the Reagan administration, rested on
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using tax cuts to stimulate investment, which would eventually result in higher tax revenues.
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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 Americans.
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Which of the following was a lasting legacy of Ronald Reagan?
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His conservative judicial appointments
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Which is true of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s?
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More Americans died of AIDS than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined.
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Between 1973 and 1992, the productivity of American workers
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increased by 1 percent a year.
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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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The profits from the secret sale of arms to Iran in the 1980s were used to
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aid the Contras, an opposition group in Nicaragua.
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika resulted in
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a new willingness to tolerate significant changes in Soviet society.
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The 1999 Battle of Seattle was
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A protest against the World Trade Organization
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What accounted for the tremendous rise in the profits of American financial industry, from less than 10% of total business profits in the 1950s to more than 40% in the 1990s?
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Financial deregulation
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Why was the internet invented? Who invented the internet? What is the internet?
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US Department of Defense with MIT developed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) developed into the internet; used to exchange data, information and emails. Its a decentralized computer network.
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When Patrick Buchanan referred to a "culture war" in the 1980s, he was talks about what?
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democratic party's support for abortion rights and the rights of gay men and women
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In the 1990s, conservatives expressed their belief that multiculturalism would...
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Result in the selection and promotion of less qualified applicants for jobs and education advancement
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President Bill Clinton's strategy for getting elected in 1992 was to...
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*focus on government???
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President Bill Clinton was officially impeached in 1998 for...
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on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice
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What was the outcome of the Bill Clinton's impeachment and senate trials in 1998?
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Republicans in the senate fell very short of 2/3 majority needed to remove him from office. ?? Or President was unable to fashion a democratic alternative to the republicans domestic agenda
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The Clinton administration addresses the emergence of the Al Qaeda terrorist network in Afghanistan by?
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Clinton ordered air strikes on Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan where an estimated 15,000 radical operatives had been trained since 1990
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The domestic issue that most engaged both Reagan and George W. Bush was what?
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Taxes
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What was the US congress trying to achieve when it passed the USA patriot act in 2001
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The legislation dramatically expanded the federal government's ability to conduct surveillance, to enforce laws, to limit civil liberties, and to fight terrorism? Or C. The suspension of certain civil liberties protections in the interests of national security
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The defining event of president George W. Bush's administration was what?
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Iraq
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During the Cold War, the world was divided between the rival communist and capitalist blocs but by 1990 it was clear that the post Cold War world would be...
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Dominated by globalization???
