Reagan/Bush Study Guide Name______
1. What are goals of Conservatives?
2. What groups of people would support a conservative domestic agenda?
3. What was the political organization formed by Evangelical Christian leaders?
4. Name as many effects of the Conservative Movement of the 1980s as you can.
5. Reagan’s economic program, nicknamed “Reaganomics” was based on ______-______economics?
6. Why was Reagan unable to achieve balanced budgets during his presidency?
7. What program, important to older Americans, did Reagan not make cuts in?
8. Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice appointed by Ronald Reagan?______
9. Reagan showed his lack of support for ______when he fired all of the people in THIS(______) industry who went on strike.
10. This allowed open criticism of the USSR and Freedom of the Press______.
11. Gorby’s Economic Reforms that allowed for some free enterprise in the USSR______.
12. Which satellite country was the first to gain its independence from the USSR?______
13. How did Communist hardliners feel about Gorby’s reforms?
14. When did the Cold War officially end?______
15. Non-Communist government of Nicaragua, supported by Reagan’s administration______
16. Congress put this in place to stop U.S. from aiding the Contras for a two-year period.______
17. What was the name of the Islamic group (considered terrorist group by U.S.) based in Lebanon, responsible for taking American hostages in 1980s? ______
18. Who was the Panamanian leader that U.S. forces (under Reagan) captured and convicted of drug trafficking charges?______
19. A student-led, non-violent protest for Democracy was crushed by the military in this place______
20. Code name for the coalition-led attack on Iraqi forces in the Persian Gulf War. ______
21. Why were people so upset with George H.W. Bush?
22. List some of the problems in America in the 1980s?
23. What did Iraqi forces do as revenge for being kicked out of Kuwait?
24. What were some of the controversies over the Persian Gulf War?