Hist 130 Fall 2012
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| show | NOTHING as strong as the 60's and 70's were.
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| show | Values, Honesty, eliminate secrecy in government; ordinary guy
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| show | Colombia rejected U.S. building plans
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| How could Ronald Reagan argue that Carter “lost” or gave away” the canal? | show 🗑
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| show | Panama was a great defeat/Trading interrupted
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| show | Boycotted Olympics from the Russians // Nothing was really done.
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| How did this impact his presidency and affect the mood of Americans? | show 🗑
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| What is a multinational? | show 🗑
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| Why would an American president support a military junta over a peasant rebellion? | show 🗑
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| show | USA defeat Russians
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| show | Boost in American confidence
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| show | New, revival! Put the 'Merica back in America
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| show | Political abuse
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| What did the Supreme Court accomplish during the Reagan-Bush era? | show 🗑
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| What was the significance of Reagan’s firing the striking air traffic controllers? | show 🗑
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| What were Reagan’s tax cuts? | show 🗑
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| show | Assault on federal taxes, social welfare spending, and regulatory bureaucracy, increase defense spending, restore American leadership of world's Capitalist societies
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| What is “supply-side” economics? | show 🗑
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| show | Opposed Nixon's reform; resisted increase in cost of living
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| What was Ragan’s attitude toward the Soviet Union? | show 🗑
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| How did Reagan’s relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev affect U.S.-Soviet relations? | show 🗑
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| How did Reagan and Gorbachev’s views on their nuclear arsenals change during the 1980’s? | show 🗑
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| show | Still felt rejected by society
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| show | Reagan's missile fight
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| Why did the U.S. invade Caribbean countries during the Carter-Reagan-Bush years? | show 🗑
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| Why did the first President Bush take the U.S. to war against Iraq in 1991? | show 🗑
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| Did the American public support the war? | show 🗑
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| How did the media’s role during Desert Storm differ from its role during the Vietnam War? | show 🗑
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| Why didn’t the U.S. government remove Saddam Hussein from power in 1991? | show 🗑
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| show | Distrust government and wars
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| show | Excuse to go to war
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| show | Thought they had leaders; wanted the upper hand
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| How did the columnist Molly Ivins assess the bombing? | show 🗑
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| How did Clinton “control” Saddam Hussein during the 1990’s? | show 🗑
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| How did Clinton’s actions as president belie his claim to be “liberal”? | show 🗑
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| show | Hostage situation // Poorly handled
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| Who was Newt Gingrich and what was the “Contract with America”? | show 🗑
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| show | Weakened him politically - revival of credit
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| show | Thougt the federal government was too strong and hated it - Mad about Waco
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| show | Islamic terrorists and McVeigh
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| What did the film “Hate.com” reveal about the issue of domestic terrorism in the 90’s? | show 🗑
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| What foreign policy issues were paramount to Clinton? | show 🗑
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| show | NATO protecting the Albanians in Serbia
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| What were the results of these interventions? | show 🗑
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| show | Economic markets in Cuba and not nearly as bad as China
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| What is the purpose of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)? | show 🗑
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| Why was Clinton impeached? | show 🗑
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| Who was Ken Starr and what was the “Starr Report”? | show 🗑
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| Who was Monica Lewinsky? | show 🗑
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| show | Cut taxes, limited regulatory action of federal agencies, power -> state governments and appointed conservative judges, and increased taxes (against campaign
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| What was his response to the corporate scandals (Enron, et al) that broke out early in his presidency? | show 🗑
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| show | At first, "no new taxes," -> large deficit, budget deficits = increase in taxes
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| How did Bush react to the terrorist attack of 9/11? | show 🗑
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| Why did he decide to go to war against Afghanistan immediately after 9/11? | show 🗑
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| show | Oil, democracy, security , weapons
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| How was the Iraq war sold to the American public? | show 🗑
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| show | LIED to the public
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| What were the key decisions by the Bush administration that led to the failures in Iraq? | show 🗑
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| show | Iraq, Iran, and North Korea (COMMIE BASTARDS!)
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| What are WMD? | show 🗑
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| How did they become a problem for the Bush administration? | show 🗑
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| How did events at Abu Ghraib affect Bush’s “war on terror”? | show 🗑
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| Why was Bush criticized for his handling of the Hurricane Katrina situation? | show 🗑
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