Exam 31: From the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan

In the 1980 presidential campaign,

Compare George Bush's handling of the first Gulf War with his son George W.Bush's handling of the second Gulf War.What are the main differences?

In 1986,the Reagan administration suffered a serious political scandal after the White House admitted the federal government had

Under the Reagan Doctrine,the United States commonly engaged in serious warfare in order to resist communism and anti-Americanism in the Third World.

President Reagan preferred his ________ Initiative to the SALT II arms control treaty.

In 1988,Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signaled his desire to change past policies by

Following the seizure of Americans in Iran,the Soviet invasion of ________ worsened relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

During President Ronald Reagan's first term,the course of the American economy

In 1980,________ challenged President Carter for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s was encouraged by the Soviet policy of

In the 1980 presidential election,Ronald Reagan

Why was President Ford challenged from both political extremes in his party in 1976?

In 1979,President Jimmy Carter

All of the following foreign policy events occurred during the Carter administration EXCEPT the

The United States did not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

In 1983,the Reagan administration responded to a terrorist bombing in Beirut of American marine barracks by

Like Nixon and Ford before him,President Carter responded to economic problems by tightening the money supply.

What were the sources of the nation's economic troubles during the Carter administration?

The Reagan administration accumulated more debt in eight years than the American government had accumulated in its entire history.

George Bush's presidential victory in 1988 was the result of