USH Module 8 Introduction #1 Bellwork

What was the main goal of Reaganomics during the 1980s?

• Increase government spending on social programs

• Reduce taxes to encourage economic growth

• Nationalize major industries

• Increase tariffs on imported goods

Match each leader or policy to its associated action or goal.

• Ronald Reagan

• Support anti-communist insurgencies

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Glasnost and Perestroika

• Reagan Doctrine

• Persian Gulf War

• George H.W. Bush

• Strategic Defense Initiative

​ (a)   aimed to boost economic growth by cutting taxes, while ​ (b)   was a space-based defense system proposal.

• Reaganomics
• Strategic Defense Initiative
• Moral Majority
• Perestroika
• Clinton’s Budget
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Categorize each action as either Cold War Era or Post-Cold War Era.

Groups:

(a) Cold War Era

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(b) Post-Cold War Era

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Persian Gulf War

• Operation Enduring Freedom

• Reagan Doctrine

Arrange the events in chronological order.

• Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Fall of the Soviet Union

• Persian Gulf War

• 9/11 Attacks

“They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man...”

President Ronald Reagan, "Evil Empire" speech

What idea is most reflected in this excerpt from Reagan?

• Nuclear disarmament

• Environmental regulation

• Isolationism

• Anti-communism

What was the immediate U.S. response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

• Launching Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan

• Withdrawal from all Middle Eastern countries

• Formation of the European Union under UN control

• Signing the Kyoto Protocol to form an alliance with Japan

Match each law or act to its effect.

• War Powers Act (1973)

• Expanded health insurance access

• No Child Left Behind

• Expanded surveillance powers

• Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

• Limited presidential military power

• Patriot Act

• Increased school accountability

What was one of the major criticisms of NAFTA?

• It created trade barriers between Canada and Mexico

• It led to job losses in American manufacturing

• It caused widespread inflation in the U.S.

• It ended immigration from Latin America

Match each economic change to its cause or effect.

• Migration to Sunbelt

• Rise of globalization

• Decline of labor unions

• Dominance of tech and healthcare

• Decline of manufacturing jobs

• Growth of suburban economies

• Service sector growth

• Shift to white-collar jobs