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80s & 90s Test
Global Citizenship
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the oldest elected president? | Ronald Reagan |
| what nickname for Reaganomics implies that money will go from the wealthy to the less wealthy | trickle down economics |
| what Lebanese city is the location of the worst terrorist attack on Americans on foreign soil | beirut |
| what is the nickname for the space defense system | star wars |
| what is the name for the Nicaraguan "Freedom Fighters" | contra |
| what is the Russian word for openness | glasnost |
| riots break out related to the extent of police force used when arresting this motorist | Rodney king |
| president bush declares a war on | drugs |
| this square in Beijing is the location of a violent attack on civilian protesters | tiananmen |
| what significant event change occurs in Germany at the end of the 80s | Berlin wall falls |
| what is term used to describe de jure segregation polices in south Africa | apartheid |
| what is the code name for the Persian gulf war in 1991 | desert storm |
| American city that is the location of our worst domestic terror incident | oklahoma city |
| Jack Kevorkian carried out over _______ assisted suicides | 100 |
| the first cloned mammal is a sheep named | dolly |
| this landmark $206 billion settlement was awarded to the states against the ______ industry | tobacco |
| is Clinton impeached? | yes |
| what Colorado school is the location of a terrible school shooting | columbine |
| as the millennium, ended y2k describes our fears over the collapse of what system ? | computers |
| what does NAFTA stand for | north Atlantic free trade agreement |
| what common currency does the European union adopt | euro |
| the beating of this motorist caused rioting in LA | Rodney king |
| creates a fortune with Microsoft and computer software | bill gates |
| creator of the 24 hour news network CNN | Ted Turner |
| first female to appear on the presidential ticket of a major political party ; 1984 running mate for Walter Mondale | Geraldine Ferraro |
| Soviet leader who promoted a policy of openness within the USSR | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| physician who supported assisted suicide | jack Kevorkian |
| first president of the Russian federation | Boris Yeltsin |
| vice president under Clinton ; lost 2000 election | al gore |
| powerful first lady who said "it takes a village to raise a child " | Hilary Clinton |
| Panamanian dictator and drug dealer | Manuel Noriega |
| polish leader of the labor union called solidarity | lech Walesa |
| Libyan dictator who sponsored terrorist attacks on Americans ; killed in 2011 during a coup in the country | mommar qhaddafi |
| youngest chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the first black American to serve as notional security advisor | Colin powell |
| head of the Palestinian liberation organization | Yasser Arafat |
| billionaire and third party cja;;emher on the 1992 presidential election | Ross Perot |
| head of televangelists and the moral majority | Jerry falwell |
| a teacher who became the first civilian in space aboard a failed space mission | Christa McAuliffe |
| murdered musician | John Lennon |
| intern who had an affair with Clinton | Monica Lewinsky |
| vice president from 19922-2000 | al gore |
| marine corps colonel who takes responsibility for the arms for hostages deal | Oliver north |
| protestor against segregation in south Africa ; nobel prize winner | nelson mandela |
| first female astronaut | Sally ride |
| oklahoma city bomber | Timothy McVeigh |
| stormin' commander of forces in the Persian gulf war | Norman Schwarzkopf |
| oldest man in space | John Glenn |
| first female secretary of state | Madeline Albright |
| head of the nation of island who organizes a million man march of Washington | Louis Farrakhan |
| dictator of Iraq | Saddam Hussein |
| first iron curtain country to shed Soviet control | poland |
| this country took hostages from the us embassy and later purchased weapons from America | Iran |
| Iraq invaded this neighbor in 1990 | Kuwait |
| the Exxon Valdez struck this landmass | Alaska |
| teenage shooters kill twelve student at the Colorado high school | columbine |
| location of the 1980 Olympics boycotted by the us | Moscow |
| country controlled by repressive Taliban government | afghanistan |
| this country practiced segregation policies for three hundred fifty years | south Africa |
| the location of the branch Dravidian cult compound fired up on by atf and fbi | Waco Texas |
| tiananmen square ______ was the location of both a massive peaceful protest and a bloody repression | Beijing |
| "freedom fighters" in this country received aid from president Reagan to fight communism | nicaragua |
| this country was the location of the worst foreign terrorist attacks when marine barracks wee attacked | Lebanon |
| the site of a massive explosion of a nuclear reaction on Soviet oil | Chernobyl |
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