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From Ford To Bush
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which president began funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), aka. “Star Wars”? | Ronald Reagan |
| Which president urged Americans to “Whip Inflation Now”? | Gerald Ford |
| Which president pardoned Pres. Nixon of any crimes he may have committed in the Watergate Scandal? | Gerald Ford |
| Which president helped negotiate the Camp David Accords peace treaty between Egypt and Israel? | James Carter |
| The Iran hostage crisis contributed to what president not being reelected? | James Carter |
| Which president said that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”? | Ronald Reagan |
| Which president boycotted 1980 Olympics & put grain embargo against U.S.S.R. for invading Afghanistan? | James Carter |
| Which president initiated deregulation? | Ronald Reagan |
| Prime Minister of Israel who signed the Camp David Accords | Menachem Begin |
| President of Egypt who signed the Camp David Accords | Anwar Sadat |
| Last Soviet leader. Signed I.N.F. Treaty with Reagan | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Leader of the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah of Iran | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| First female vice presidential candidate of a major pol. party | Geraldine Ferraro |
| First female Supreme Court Justice | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Televangelist co-founder of the Moral Majority | Jerry Falwell |
| Involved in the Iran-Contra Scandal | Oliver North |
| Wrote Bonfire of the Vanities. Called 1970s the “Me Decade” | Tom Wolfe |
| A slow down of the economy with rising prices is called | Stagflation |
| Political scandal associated with the Reagan administration | Iran-Contra Scandal |
| O.P.E.C. is a(n) | Cartel |
| These people represented the materialism of 1980s culture | Yuppies |
| Environmentalists were unhappy with this Sec. of Interior | James Watt |
| Movement in California to lower property taxes | Proposition 13 |
| Proper term for “trickle down” economics | Supply-side Economics |
| First Lady behind the “Just Say No” anti-drug program | Nancy Reagan |
| Founder of Apple Computer Co. | Steve Jobs |
| Do Conservatives or Liberals favor tax cuts? | Conservatives |
| Do Conservatives or Liberals support social welfare programs? | Liberals |
| Do Conservatives or Liberals favor less government regulations on business? | Conservatives |
| Do Conservatives or Liberals support strong environmental protections? | Liberals |
| Under what president were Welfare Reform and Family Leave Acts passed as well as N.A.F.T.A.? | William Clinton |
| What president engaged the U.S. in the first Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait? | George H.W. Bush |
| What president said, "Read my lips. No new taxes” but ended up raising taxes? | George H.W. Bush |
| Under what president was the No Child Left Behind legislation passed? | George W. Bush |
| What president sent troops as part of N.A.T.O. peacekeeping in the Balkans to stop ethnic cleansing? | William Clinton |
| What president engaged the U.S. in invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11? | George W. Bush |
| Who was president when the Cold War came to an end? | George H.W. Bush |
| What president was cleared of involvement in the Whitewater Affair? | William Clinton |
| What president's election was decided by a Supreme Court decision? | George W. Bush |
| What president, besides Andrew Johnson, was impeached? | William Clinton |
| Former dictator of Iraq | Saddam Hussein |
| Led Solidarity union in Poland | Lech Walesa |
| Leader of al Qaeda | Osama bin Laden |
| Last leader of U.S.S.R. | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Leader of P.L.O. terrorist group | Yassir Arafat |
| Former dictator of Panama | Manuel Noriega |
| Lost 2000 election to George W. Bush after Florida vote controversy | Al Gore |
| General in charge of Operation Desert Storm | Norman Schwarzkopf |
| First African-American Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff & Sec. of State | Colin Powell |
| Consumer advocate who ran for the Green Party in 2000 | Ralph Nader |
| Domestic terrorist responsible for Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh |
| Republican who created Contract With America | Newt Gingrich |
| Billionaire candidate for Reform Party. Advocated budget cuts. | Ross Perot |
| Scandal involving Pres. Nixon | Watergate Scandal |
| Scandal involving Pres. G.H.W. Bush | Savings and Loan Scandal |
| Scandal involving Pres. Reagan | Iran-Contra Scandal |
| Scandal involving Pres. Clinton | Whitewater Affair |
| True of false: Since 1980, North Carolina has voted Democratic in presidential elections ( except once ) | False |
| True of false: Asians are the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. currently | False |
| True of false: The 1990s was the decade that the internet was first publicly available | True |
| True of false: The U.S. population has moved north and east to the “rustbelt" | False |
| True of false: Al Qaeda was not responsible for the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon but was responsible for the 1998 attack on U.S. embassies in Africa, 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, and 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in N.Y. city | True |
| Reagan funded what? | Strategic Defense Initiative |
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