History Week 27 Reagan Revolution

House minority leader who was the 1st person appointed VP following the

25th Amendment and later replaced Nixon; the only President never elected

• Jimmy Carter

• Gerald Ford

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• George H. W. Bush

39th President of the US who ran as the "people's president" and established

a foreign policy based on the defense of human rights

• Jimmy Carter

• Gerald Ford

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• George H. W. Bush

Shah of Iran who was forced to flee his country and later sought cancer

treatment in the US, leading to the Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Mohammed Pahlvavi

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• George H. W. Bush

fanatical Islamic extremist who took power when violence drove the existing

shah from power in 1979

• Mohammed Pahlvavi

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• George H. W. Bush

US president who implemented sweeping domestic reforms with supply-side

economic policies and deregulation while renewing the Cold War

• Mohammed Pahlvavi

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• George H. W. Bush

first female Supreme Court justice

• Mohammed Pahlvavi

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Sandra Day O'Connor

last leader of the Soviet Union; implemented glasnost and perestroika

• Jimmy Carter

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Sandra Day O'Connor

US president whose term was dominated by foreign events such as the First

Gulf War, collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union

• Jimmy Carter

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Ronald Reagan

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• George H. W. Bush

Iraqi dictator who invaded Kuwait, leading to the First Persian Gulf War

• Jimmy Carter

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Ronald Reagan

• Saddam Hussein

• George H. W. Bush

cornerstone of President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy

• Containment

• Space Program

• Poverty

• Human Rights