Which of the following dramatically decreased in the 1980s?
personal savings
The anti-feminist women led by Phyllis Schlafly:
helped keep the equal-rights amendment from being ratified
During the 1980s, unions:
suffered steady declines in membership
The collapse of stock prices that occurred on "Black Monday" (October 19, 1987):
in percentage terms, was the worst in American history
The Grenada invasion resulted in:
an easy American victory
The marine lieutenant colonel at the center of the Iran-Contra affair, Oliver North, was using profits from the sale of arms to Iran to:
finance the Nicaraguan Contras
One of President Bush's major domestic priorities became his war on:
drugs
The Tower Commission report blamed much of the Iran-Contra scandal on:
Reagan's loose management style
The reform-minded Soviet premier who emerged in the mid-1980s was:
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Panamanian government of Manuel Noriega was at odds with the Bush administration because of its:
involvement in the drug trade
By the early 1980s, Lebanon:
became an anarchic battleground for warring factions
The 1991 Persian Gulf War resulted in:
Saddam Hussein remaining in power
To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:
sunny
The fall of the Berlin Wall was soon followed by:
Germany's reunification
Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be:
Southern Baptists
As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:
cutting taxes
Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as:
an evil empire
A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was:
population growth in the South and the West
A democracy movement in China:
was brutally crushed by the government
Revelations of the Iran-Contra affair indicated that Reagan had violated his pledge to never:
negotiate with terrorists
The Gulf War was triggered by Saddam Hussein's invasion of:
Kuwait
The religious right fervently supported Reagan because he:
supported its conservative social values
Bush ultimately dealt with Noriega by:
ordering a military invasion to arrest him
Carter's management of the economy resulted in:
unacceptably high rates of inflation
The Reagan administration's initial response to AIDS was to:
largely ignore it as a "gay" disease
By the end of his presidency, Reagan had:
restored American confidence
Bush's goal as president seemed to be to:
consolidate Reagan's policies and achievements
Reagan's hope for Nicaragua was that the Sandinistas would:
be overthrown by the Contras
Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:
made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964
As a result of the massive national debt:
Bush had to recommend tax increases
Opposing Iraq in the Gulf War was:
a coalition of over thirty nations
A high percentage of the homeless people of the 1980s were:
mentally ill
By the end of 1991, the Soviet Union:
had fallen apart
Bush helped secure his victory in 1988 by:
portraying the Democrat, Dukakis, as a liberal
Democratic candidate Walter Mondale most seriously damaged his presidential prospects when he:
promised to raise taxes
Reagan's experience as an actor:
was invaluable in a television age
In late 1987, the United States and the Soviets signed a treaty to eliminate:
intermediate-range nuclear missiles
By the fall of 1991, the most popular Soviet politician was:
Boris Yeltsin
In Central America, the Reagan administration was seriously concerned that Communist-backed revolutionaries might take over in:
El Salvador
The crucial development in the Soviet Union in August 1991 was:
a failed Communist coup
A change in the cold war climate was indicated in 1988 when the Soviets began withdrawing their troops from:
Afghanistan
When Islamic fanatics bombed and killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983, Reagan:
soon pulled out the remaining Marines
Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative:
forced the Soviets to spend extensively to keep pace
Many of those who contracted AIDS in the early and mid-1980s:
soon died
One major factor working in Reagan's favor in his 1984 reelection bid was:
a robustly growing economy
One major inspiration for Reagan's economic approach was:
the Republican tax-reduction program of the 1920s
The leader of the Moral Majority was:
Jerry Falwell