1. What Are Entitlement Programs? Do You Think That Is a Problem Today?

Goal 12, Chap 33

SSS pg. 74

Sect. 1

1.  What are entitlement programs? Do you think that is a problem today?

2.  What was the New Right?

3.  Define affirmation action.

4.  Define reverse discrimination.

5.  How did the Moral Majority and the Conservation Coalition impact politics in the 1980’s?

6.  Ronal Reagan was an actor and governor of California. What factors led to Reagan’s victory in 1980?

Sect. 2

1.  Describe supply-side economics, also known as “Reaganomics.” What was its impact on taxes?

2.  Define SDI, “Star Wars.”

3.  Who was Sandra Day O’Conner? What president nominated her?

4.  What was the impact of deregulation?

5.  What is the EPA?

6.  What happened on March 30, 1981?

7.  Who won the presidential election of 1988?

Sect. 3

1.  What is AIDS? Why did it cause a backlash against gays?

2.  What was Roe v Wade?

3.  Was the ERA passed? Why or why not?

4.  Who was L. Douglas Wilder?

5.  After the anti-gay backlash in the early 1980’s- how did gay activists advance their movement?

Sect. 4

1.  Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?

2.  Define glasnost.

3.  Define perestroika.

4.  What was INF?

5.  What came down on Nov. 9, 1989?

6.  Communism collapsed when the Soviet Union dissolved. What date was that? What president will be credited with the ending “winning” of the Cold War?

7.  The Chinese were not so fortunate. Describe the events in Tiananmen Square,1989.

8.  Describe the events in Nicaragua between the Sandinistas and the Contras.

9.  Why did Reagan attack Grenada?

10.  Why did Bush Senior overthrow Noriega in Panama on December 20, 1989?

11.  What was the Iran- Contra Scandal?

12.  Why did the US attack Iraq in the Desert Storm War? Who was president?

Goal 12, Chap 34

SSS pg. 75

Sect. 1

1.  Who won the election of 1992? What role did H. Ross Perot play?

2.  What was the most important issue for the election?

3.  Was Hillary successful in getting the health care reform passed?

4.  Clinton had problems with foreign policy. One area was in Bosnia, the other in Somalia. Describe both situations and Clinton’s response to them.

5.  Clinton gets the NAFTA bill passed. What was it and who was against it?

6.  Newt Gingrich was a Republican and drafted a document called “Contract with America.” What did it say?

7.  Who won in the 1996 election?

8.  Clinton’s second term was scandal plagued earning him the nickname of “The Teflon Kid.” Describe two of the scandals, and why Clinton was impeached.

9.  The election of 2000 was unique…who ran, who won and who ultimately decided the winner?

10.  What happened on September 11, 2001. Who was responsible?

11.  What new cabinet was formed in response to this act of terrorism?

12.  The US goes to war with what country? Why?

13.  What is the Taliban?

14.  Who is elected in 2004?

Sect. 2

1.  What is a global economy?

2.  What is downsizing?

3.  What impact did Bill Gates have on the computer industry?

4.  Define dotcoms.

Sect. 3

1.  Define information superhighway.

2.  What is the impact of the Internet?

3.  How has scientific advances changed our lives? Describe some major medical advances.

4.  Define genetic engineering.

Sect. 4

1.  There have been two major changes in the US’s population. One deals with race, and the other age. What are these changes?

2.  What religion do most Hispanics practice?

3.  What is Proposal 187?

EPILOGUE

1.  Define the PATRIOT ACT. Why was it passed?

2.  What are WMD? Do you think the US should control who has nuclear power? Why or why not?

3.  Why is there such concern about immigration?

4.  Clinton signed the Brady Act into law. What was it, and why did he sign it?

5.  NCLB ~ what is it, and how does it impact you? Who signed it into law?

6.  How have computers changed your lives? What is the impact of “myspace”?

7.  What are the major concerns regarding health care?

8.  What is the cycle of poverty? Do you have any suggestions on how to break it?

9.  How has the “graying” of America endangered our Social Security system?

10.  How was the role of women in the workplace changed? What is the impact of this changing role?

11.  Do you believe in global warming? Why or why not? Should we do more as individual citizens to become “green”?