1980s US History

Match the following vocabulary

• increase military spending/research to show US enemies that it would act to stop aggression

• Contract with America

• Strategic Defense Initiative, using lasers to shoot down missiles in order to prevent nuclear attack

• Star Wars

• Sought to promote conservative policies and attempted to influence legislators

• Heritage Foundation

• Introduced as a program of conservative principals arguing that government was too big

• Lionel Sosa

• founder of the largest Hispanic advertising agency in the US

• Reagan Doctrine

Which U.S. policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism by providing military and economic aid to countries threatened by it during the Cold War?

• The Marshall Plan

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The Roosevelt Corollary

Who became President after Ronald Reagan?

• Harry Truman

• Barack Obama

• Gerald Ford

• George H. W. Bush

What country tried to restore order and peace across the world after the Cold War ended?

• USA

• Great Britain

• Russia

• France

Which U.S. President is known for the economic policies termed 'Reaganomics'?

• A) Jimmy Carter

• B) Ronald Reagan

• C) George H. W. Bush

• D) Bill Clinton

What was the primary goal of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) proposed in the 1980s?

• A) To reduce nuclear arms

• B) To provide universal healthcare

• C) To develop a missile defense system

• D) To promote free trade

Which 1980s event is associated with the fall of the Berlin Wall?

• A) The end of World War II

• B) The Cuban Missile Crisis

• C) The end of the Cold War

• D) The Vietnam War

Who was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981?

• A) Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• B) Sandra Day O'Connor

• C) Sonia Sotomayor

• D) Elena Kagan

What was the main focus of the Reagan Doctrine during the 1980s?

• A) Promoting environmental conservation

• B) Supporting anti-communist movements

• C) Expanding civil rights

• D) Reducing taxes

Which U.S. space shuttle tragically exploded shortly after launch in 1986?

• A) Challenger

• B) Columbia

• C) Discovery

• D) Atlantis