Exam 28: The Triumph of Conservatism, the End of the Cold War, and the Rise of the New World Order

In response to the federal deficit, President George H. W. Bush was forced to deviate from standard conservative policy on

The Reagan administration's secret "arms for hostages" deal was an effort to get which nation to use its influence on behalf of Americans kidnapped in the Middle East?

The phrase "greed is good" captures the spirit of the economic policies of which president?

President Nixon's trip to China was surprising because

The Bush administration's response to the Tiananmen Square massacre consisted of

The goal of President Nixon's foreign policy was to

Opponents of the Kyoto Protocol argued that the United States should not sign it because

The guiding principle of the Reagan administration's foreign policy agenda was its commitment to

Like Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush appealed to conservative voters during his presidential campaign by claiming that he would

Map 28.3, The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, 1989-1991, shows the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc at the end of the Cold War. Which Eastern European country first held elections in which the Communist Party did not win?

For Gorbachev, the increasing democratization of the Soviet Union resulted in his

The anti-Communist movement that swept Eastern Europe during the late 1980s was resisted by the leaders of

President Nixon and President Reagan were able to ease Cold War tensions with China and the Soviet Union, respectively, because they

The increasing reliance of American manufacturers on Chinese labor was based on

The Tiananmen Square massacre was the Chinese government's response to

Based on United Nations ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's definition, which of the following countries had a "totalitarian" regime unacceptable to the United States during the 1980s?

The Reagan administration's secret plan for funding the Contras in Nicaragua was motivated by

The image "Antiapartheid Protest, Cornell University" from 1986 shows students with a self-made shantytown hut resembling those in South Africa. What does this image suggest?

One consequence of the Reagan administration's support of an oppressive right-wing government in El Salvador was the

The Bush administration challenged the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in order to