Question 1

President Ford angered the right wing of his party by appointing ________ to be his vice president.

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Question 2

Like Nixon and Ford before him,President Carter responded to economic problems with a combination of tight money and calls for voluntary restraint.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

On the economic front,during the Carter administration,

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A)   interest rates rose to their highest level in American history.
B)   unemployment rose sharply.
C)   President Carter broke from the tight money policy of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
D)   energy prices leveled off.
E)   retail prices fell at a 10 percent annual rate.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 4

In 1981,Ronald Reagan was the oldest American ever to serve as president.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Richard Nixon was never charged for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In 1976,Jimmy Carter appealed to voters by emphasizing

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A)   his personal honesty.
B)   his lack of experience in federal government.
C)   his religious piety.
D)   both his personal honesty and his religious piety.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 7

The Reagan Doctrine produced a smaller American role in the Third World.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

In the 1980 presidential election,Ronald Reagan

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A)   won a very slight popular vote margin over Carter.
B)   captured an overwhelming majority of electoral votes.
C)   won primarily as a result of third-party candidate John Anderson.
D)   did all of these: captured an overwhelming majority of electoral votes; won a very slight popular vote margin over Carter; and won primarily as a result of third-party candidate John Anderson.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 9

Why did communist governments rapidly collapse throughout Europe during the late 1980s and early 1990s?

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Question 10

Which of the following statements about Reagan's domestic policies and their effects is accurate?

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A)   He strengthened the enforcement of civil rights laws.
B)   He managed to maintain domestic spending cuts that equaled increases in military spending.
C)   He cut corporate taxes but maintained Carter-level tax rates on the wealthy.
D)   The federal deficit grew in the first six months of his presidency, then began a long decline.
E)   Under his direction, the Department of Transportation slowed the imposition of new safety standards on cars and trucks.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 11

Why did Jimmy Carter end up being one of the least popular presidents in American history?

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Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the ...

Question 12

Carter's greatest foreign policy success was in arranging a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In 1986,the Reagan administration suffered a serious political scandal after the White House admitted it had

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A)   secretly sold weapons to the revolutionary government of Iran.
B)   secretly helped finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua.
C)   illegally funneled money from arms sales.
D)   both illegally funneled money from arms sales and secretly helped finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 14

On what well-received political themes did Jimmy Carter run for the presidency in 1976,and how did these became liabilities once he was in office?

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Jimmy Carter ran for the presidency in 1...

Question 15

What were George H.W.Bush's motivations for pursuing the Gulf War? Describe the U.S.involvement in the war and the overall war aims.

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Question 16

Some Americans consider Ronald Reagan to be one of the nation's "great" presidents.Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

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Question 17

President Reagan opposed the "Sandinistas" in ________.

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Question 18

Supporters of the 1978 Proposition 13 in California successfully

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A)   played on the personal security fears of voters.
B)   played on the racial fears of voters.
C)   focused white male voter resentment on affirmative action.
D)   separated the issue of taxes from the issue of what the taxes supported.
E)   mobilized thousands of voters against funding for parochial schools.F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 19

President Ronald Reagan claimed that the U.S.SDI program could essentially make nuclear war obsolete.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The Reagan administration accumulated more debt in eight years than the American government had accumulated in its entire history.

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A) True 
 B)False

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On the economic front,during the Carter administration,

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Why did communist governments rapidly collapse throughout Europe during the late 1980s and early 1990s?

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In the 1980 presidential election,Ronald Reagan

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Which of the following statements about Reagan's domestic policies and their effects is accurate?

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Richard Nixon was never charged for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.

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Supporters of the 1978 Proposition 13 in California successfully

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Like Nixon and Ford before him,President Carter responded to economic problems with a combination of tight money and calls for voluntary restraint.

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On what well-received political themes did Jimmy Carter run for the presidency in 1976,and how did these became liabilities once he was in office?

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