Chapter 23 Anticipation Guide: The Conservative Resurgence
1. T/F The New Right did not support neither Republican Party nor the Democrat Party.
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2. T/F The Moral Majority was mostly religious politicians wanting change.
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3. T/F Ronald Reagan won the presidency by a landside in 1980.
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4. T/F Supply-side economics encourages more taxes.
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5. T/F. President Reagan was able to reduce the nation’s budget deficit.
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6. T/F. President Reagan was not responsible for the Savings and Loan crisis.
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7. T/F The Supreme Court changed drastically under Reagan’s presidency.
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8. T/F President Reagan was quick to respond to the AIDS crisis.
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9. T/F The Strategic Defense Initiative was evidence that there was an increase in military
spending under Reagan.
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10. T/F Mikhail Gorbachev was a ruthless communist dictator from the Soviet Union.
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11. T/F The fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
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12. T/F The Iran-Contra Affair had almost no ill effect on President Reagan’s legacy. .
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13. T/F The US did not interfere with democratic protests in China because the US had failed
earlier in Panama.
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14. T/F The United Nations supported the removal of Iraq from Kuwait.
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15. T/F Operation Desert Storm was a complete success.
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