Chapter 40 Focus Questions:
Essay question: Analyze and evaluate the changes in domestic and foreign policies that occurred between 1980 and 1992.
Objective Questions:
1) Who challenged President Carter for the Democratic nomination in 1980 and who were the two leading Republican candidates in that same presidential election?
2) Why had Jimmy Carter lost the support of liberal democrats?
3) What scandal kept Carter’s challenger from taking the nomination from him?
4) What is the “new right” and how important was it to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980?
5) What were the “new right” activists most concerned about – be specific.
6) What did the neoconservatives of the 1980s believe in? – be specific with at least 4 items.
7) Ronald Reagan was similar to Franklin D. Roosevelt in what way?
8) What made Reagan begin to abandon his liberal new Deal political philosophy – who was he a spokesperson for?
9) What political experience did Reagan have before he ran for President?
10) What was Proposition 13 and where was it at?
11) Despite his failure in the White House, President Jimmy Carter earned widespread admiration in his post-presidential years for what?
12) What was Ronald Reagan’s essential domestic goal as president?
13) Who was Margaret Thatcher and what (4) goals did she share with Reagan?
14) Define Boll Weevils.
15) Besides cutting the federal budget, Reagan’s other main domestic initiative when he took office was what?
16) What did Reagan’s supply side economic advisers say that the combination of budgetary discipline and tax reduction would do for our economy? (4)
17) What was the first result of Reagan’s supply side economics in 1982?
18) Define Yuppies (4).
19) What happened to income gaps for the first time in the twentieth century?
20) What consequence did record-high deficits and high interest rates of the 1980s have on the dollar?
21) President Reagan was talking about ______when he called them the “focus of evil in the modern world”?
22) Who was the first woman to receive the vice-presidential nomination of a major political party?
23) What were the only two places that Reagan did not win electoral support in 1984?
24) Define Glasnost and Perestroika – what did they help end?
25) What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
26) What did the investigation into the Iran-contra show about Reagan’s behavior in cabinet meetings?
27) In his second term, President Reagan departed from the militantly anti-Soviet stance of his frist term by negotiating what with Mikhail Gorbachev?
28) What was one of the greatest consequences of Reagan’s expansion of the federal debt?
29) What was happening to the median household incomes and middle class by the 1990s?
30) What did Congress mandate be done by the 1990s?
31) Who did the “new right” imitate in its tactical approaches?
32) What activities did members of the religious right take part in and what were they opposed to? (4)
33) How did the Supreme Court rule in Webster v. Reproductive Health Service and Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
34) Why did the Democrats hopes for the 1988 election rise – what happened in the Reagan administration to allow those hopes to rise?
35) Define Solidarity.
36) What was a major consequence of the demise of the Soviet Union – had to do with ethnic issues in its republics (this is part of why we are seeing issues in the Crimea region and Eastern Ukraine today in 2014)?
37) What former domestic agenda by LBJ caused the resurgence of modern conservatism?
38) Who did Michael Dukakis defeat for his party’s nomination in the 1988 election? (There are 2)
39) In response to the collapse of the Soviet Union, President George Bush called for a “new world order” where what would replace weaponry?
40) Why did the US join its allies in the Persian Gulf War?
41) What was the result of the Persian Gulf War?
42) What was the Americans with Disabilities Act?
43) What did the Senate hearings that nearly kept Clarence Thomas from being a Supreme Court justice center around?
44) What things happened regarding women after Thomas’s confirmation to the Supreme Court? (4)