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Abeka U.S. History 8
Ch. 23: Which Way, America?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The major independent candidate in the election of 1992 | Ross Perot |
| The black American appointed to the Supreme Court in 1992 | Clarence Thomas |
| Military officer who arranged the sale of weapons to fund the Contras of Nicaragua | Colonel Oliver North |
| Commander of Operation Desert Storm | General Colin Powell |
| The racial segregation policy established in South Africa | apartheid |
| The day in the year when one's yearly earnings stop going for taxes | May 6: Tax Freedom Day |
| Desire to return tribal peoples to their tribal roots and religions | multiculturalism |
| Process of increasing efficiency through the use of self-regulating machines | automation |
| First Lady who promoted a national health care program | Hillary Clinton |
| Conservative leader of Great Britain elected in 1991 | Margaret Thatcher |
| Constitutional lawyer who opposed ERA | Phyllis Schlafly |
| First Japanese-American woman to serve in Congress | Patsy Takemoto Mink |
| First woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Former dictator of Panama arrested for drug trafficking | Manuel Noriega |
| Communist dictator of Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| Tried to save Communism by allowing Perestroika in his country | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Iraqi dictator defeated in Operation Dessert Storm | Saddam Hussein |
| President of Russia who resigned from the Communist Party | Boris Yeltsin |
| Libyan dictator who sponsored terrorism | Muammar Quaddafi |
| President of the Philippines who fled to the United States | Ferdinand Marcos |
| Communist leader who became president of South Africa | Nelson Mandela |
| Who was known as the Great Communicator? | Ronald Reagan |
| Which was not a part of Reaganomics | more social welfare |
| What secretary of education called for a return to morality and discipline in the classroom | William Bennett |
| Solidarity was an anti-Communist movement in this country | Poland |
| The tragic explosion of this space shuttle killed all seven crew members | Challenger |
| What does Glasnost mean | openness |
| Who was appointed to lead troops into combat in Operation Desert Storm? | General Schwarzkopf |
| Due to modern medical technology, the average life span of Americans increased from 49 years to this many years | 73 |
| What amendment would have removed certain protections for women? | ERA |
| What trade agreement was signed by Canada, the United States and Mexico in 1993? | NAFTA |
| What treaty limited the placement of nuclear weaponry in Europe? | INF |
| Mikhail Gorbachev was most alarmed by this high-tech defense system under development in the United States | SDI |