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strangeaffliction · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

All of the following were part of the 1984 election EXCEPT

A. President Ronald Reagan winning all but one state.

B. the Republican Party stood united and firmly committed to Reagan's candidacy.

C. the Democratic Party choosing Walter Mondale as the presidential nominee.

D. the first woman, Geraldine Ferraro, appearing on a major party national ticket.

E. the Republicans making large gains in the Senate and House.

Question 2

In the 1980s, record national budget deficits resulted from

A. increased military spending.

B. All these answers are correct.

C. increased health care costs.

D. large tax cuts.

E. increased entitlement spending on programs such as Social Security.

Question 3

The Reagan Doctrine of opposing communism

A. resulted in a relatively passive American foreign policy.

B. centered on weakening the Soviet Union's hold on Eastern Europe.

C. was most frequently applied in Asia.

D. was substantially reworked after the 1983 Beirut bombing.

E. led the United States to intervene in several Latin American nations, including Grenada and Nicaragua.

Question 4

President Ronald Reagan argued that the Strategic Defense Initiative would

A. enable the United States to make a successful first strike anywhere in the world.

B. bring an end to communism.

C. protect all of the United States' allies.

D. make nuclear war obsolete.

E. bridge the missile gap with the Soviet Union.

Question 5

The country President Ronald Reagan described as an evil empire in the early 1980s was

A. Iraq.

B. North Korea.

C. Iran.

D. the Soviet Union.

E. China.