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Ronald Reagan
Project Quiz
Question | Answer |
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What was the name of Ronald Reagan's economic plan? | Reaganomics |
What are side-side economics? | tax cuts and business incentives that stimulate investment |
Reagan's plan caused the US to go into the worst _______________ since the Great Depression. | Recession |
Who started the "Just Say No" War on drugs campaign? | Nancy Reagan |
What strategy struck on January 28, 1986? | Space Shuttle Disaster |
What song, by Bruce Springsteen, was popular during the Reagan Era? | Born in the USA |
President Reagan's proposed defense space shield that would knock out incoming Soviet missiles was called __________. | Strategic Defense Initiative |
What was Reagan's famous speech that worsened relations with the Soviets but also forged bonds with like-minded foreign leaders? | "The Evil Empire" |
The ____ Treaty ordered the destruction of thousands of missiles. | INF |
What was the secret sales of weapons to Iran in an attempt to secure the release of US hostages in Lebanon? | Iran-Contra affair |
Who was the last president of the Soviet Union before the country's collapse in 1991? | Mikhail Gorbachev |
_______ is the South African government's official policy of legalized racial segregation throughout society. | Apartheid |
Independent labor union founded in Soviet controlled Poland in 1980 was called _______. | Solidarity |
What was the base for attacks against Israel to the south? | Lebanon |
What was the political activist who founded the moral majority's name? | Jerry Farwell |
The ____________ was the group the believed that the majority of Americans agreed with conservative moral values. | Moral Majority |
What were some of Reagan's values? | Virtue, compassion, and perception. |
Who recruited Reagan for governor? | Californian Republican Party. |
Explain the New Right. | Combo of media commentators, think tanks, and grass root Christian groups. They were formed to go against specific liberal groups. |