Hist 130 Fall 2012
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| show | NOTHING as strong as the 60's and 70's were.
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| show | Values, Honesty, eliminate secrecy in government; ordinary guy
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| How did the U.S. acquire the Panama Canal, and why were people inflamed that Carter wanted to hand it over to the Panamanians? | show 🗑
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| How could Ronald Reagan argue that Carter “lost” or gave away” the canal? | show 🗑
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| Why would the American people care? | show 🗑
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| show | Boycotted Olympics from the Russians // Nothing was really done.
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| show | Glad to boycott // upset with the lack of hostage initiative
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| What is a multinational? | show 🗑
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| Why would an American president support a military junta over a peasant rebellion? | show 🗑
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| show | USA defeat Russians
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| show | Boost in American confidence
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| show | New, revival! Put the 'Merica back in America
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| What were Reagan and the first George Bush’s lasting legacies? | show 🗑
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| show | More conservative judges, African-American, Female, Challenged abortion rights, Conservative majority
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| What was the significance of Reagan’s firing the striking air traffic controllers? | show 🗑
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| What were Reagan’s tax cuts? | show 🗑
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| show | Assault on federal taxes, social welfare spending, and regulatory bureaucracy, increase defense spending, restore American leadership of world's Capitalist societies
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| What is “supply-side” economics? | show 🗑
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| show | Opposed Nixon's reform; resisted increase in cost of living
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| show | "Evil Empire" but homies with Gorby
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| How did Reagan’s relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev affect U.S.-Soviet relations? | show 🗑
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| How did Reagan and Gorbachev’s views on their nuclear arsenals change during the 1980’s? | show 🗑
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| show | Still felt rejected by society
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| show | Reagan's missile fight
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| Why did the U.S. invade Caribbean countries during the Carter-Reagan-Bush years? | show 🗑
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| show | They invaded Kuwait - Oil control
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| show | Yes
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| How did the media’s role during Desert Storm differ from its role during the Vietnam War? | show 🗑
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| show | He was anti-Iranian - - wasn't geared toward oil
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| show | Distrust government and wars
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| How might his definition differ from the first President Bush’s or Colin Powell’s definition? | show 🗑
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| How did Saddam Hussein “save” the first President Bush’s administration from the “peace dividend”? | show 🗑
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| Why did Clinton bomb Baghdad, Iraq? | show 🗑
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| show | The bombing, "Fit the definition of terrorism."
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| How did Clinton “control” Saddam Hussein during the 1990’s? | show 🗑
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| show | Drove conservatives to the right, very centrist, cut welfare and social systems to spend more on defense -- very conservative
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| show | Hostage situation // Poorly handled
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| show | Speaker of the House; he wanted a tax and budget cut
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| show | Weakened him politically - revival of credit
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| Why did Timothy McVeigh bomb the Murrah building in Oklahoma City? | show 🗑
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| show | Islamic terrorists and McVeigh
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| What did the film “Hate.com” reveal about the issue of domestic terrorism in the 90’s? | show 🗑
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| show | Only wanted to benefit America
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| show | NATO protecting the Albanians in Serbia
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| What were the results of these interventions? | show 🗑
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| Why did the U.S. support regimes in China, Indonesia, and Russia but continue to demonize Castro in Cuba? | show 🗑
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| What is the purpose of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)? | show 🗑
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| show | Perjury and obstruction of justic
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| Who was Ken Starr and what was the “Starr Report”? | show 🗑
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| show | White house intern; Mistress
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| show | Cut taxes, limited regulatory action of federal agencies, power -> state governments and appointed conservative judges, and increased taxes (against campaign
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| What was his response to the corporate scandals (Enron, et al) that broke out early in his presidency? | show 🗑
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| show | At first, "no new taxes," -> large deficit, budget deficits = increase in taxes
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| show | No immediate response
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| show | Wanted to rid Afghanistan of Al Queda
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| Why did the Bush administration decide to go to war against Iraq? | show 🗑
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| How was the Iraq war sold to the American public? | show 🗑
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| How did Bush and his administration begin to lose the trust of the majority of the public regarding the war? | show 🗑
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| What were the key decisions by the Bush administration that led to the failures in Iraq? | show 🗑
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| What is the “Axis of Evil”? | show 🗑
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| show | Weapons of Mass Destruction ;)
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| show | We kept assuming that other countries had them
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| How did events at Abu Ghraib affect Bush’s “war on terror”? | show 🗑
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| Why was Bush criticized for his handling of the Hurricane Katrina situation? | show 🗑
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