Exam 30: A Conservative Revival and the End of the Cold War

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Air Traffic Controllers Strike

Discuss four social, economic, or cultural trends of the 1990s that began to change the United States during that decade and seemed likely to shape the course of American history in the twenty-first century.

What was one of the factors that caused the saving-and-loan crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. George W. Bush

The Exxon Valdez incident revealed

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 2000 Election

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Iran-contra scandal

What were the most important cultural and social effects of personal computers and the new communications technologies they spawned?

Besides Operation Desert Storm, what major foreign policy issues did President George H. W. Bush face? How successful was he in dealing with them?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Reaganomics

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal office building in Oklahoma City in order to demonstrate his displeasure over

What economic problems confronted the United States in the 1980s and 1990s? How did presidents Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Clinton, deal with those problems, and with what success?

Discuss President Clinton's successes and failures in the areas of economic expansion, job creation, and health care.

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. AIDS

What do David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas, and Stephen Breyer have in common?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Persian Gulf War

What were the major domestic accomplishments failures of the Reagan years? Compare, especially, Reagan's first and second terms. Overall, do you agree with your text's assessment that Reagan's record was "at best mixed"? Why or why not?

Which of the following developments occurred after the end of the Cold War?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Planned Parenthood v. Casey

What made the 2000 presidential election so controversial?