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Question 1

Date of Ronald Regan’s resignation

Answer 1

Jan 20, 1989

Question 2

How many terms did Regean serve?

Answer 2

2

Question 3

How many othr presidents served two full terms??

Answer 3

Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and Dwight Eisenhower

Question 4

According to the article what is Reagan’s greatest accomplishmnet?

Answer 4

Is the legacy he leaves his successor.

Question 5

In the 1970s the US had been on the retreat on almost every military front. Give Examples

Answer 5

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua

Question 6

How many days were the American hostages held in the US Embassy in Iran?

Answer 6

444 days

Question 7

Were the hostages freed on the first day of Reagan’s presidency?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What was going on internally in the US in the 1970s

Answer 8

The US surrendered to high taxes, infalation, gasoline shortages, to massive government interference in the economy and in the lives of Individual Americans. Also low standards in school and a lot of crime.

Question 9

Does the Article state that Americans abonded the “American Dream”

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

According to the Article the 1970s were dreadful and the 1980s have been much better thanks to who?????

Answer 10

Reagan

Question 11

Did Regean believe that the government cannot creat economic growth?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

Did Regean believe that the government is the enemy of the economic growth?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Because the government cannot create economic growth, does it mean it can create an enviroment that is friendly to growth.

Answer 13

To Regean, Yes it can create that enviroment.

Question 14

Does Regean believe that the government can help unleash human imagination and creativity, and the chance to take economic risks and reap the rewards when they succeed or allow them to fail?

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

What did Regean think was the hero of ecnomic growth? What does this term mean?

Answer 15

Entreprenuer. In America it is the entreprenuer who gets the new ideas, takes the risks, tries the nwe things. It is the entrprenuer who works long and hard, to find money and break the rules, to be the inventor.

Question 16

Can the government be an entreprenuer??????Why yes or not?

Answer 16

No, since Bureaucracies do not take risks; they are not pioneers; they do not get new ideas; and they cannot move quickly. But government can encourage individuals to be entreprenuers.

Question 17

Since the government can encourage individuals to be entreprenuers what did Regean do for encouragement?

Answer 17

Lowering taxes, reducing government regulation and interference in the eocnomy, and by making it easrier for individuals to accumulate the money they can use for new econmic enterprises.

Question 18

Because of Reagan’s policies in the ecnonomy, according to the article, did America experience economic growth.

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

(Federalism/Anti-federalism) has been the poltiical principle upon which America has been organized and governed.

Answer 19

Federalism.

Question 20

Explain the Federal System

Answer 20

The states gave some important powers to the new national government. But they also kept many powers for themselves. This is the division fo powers.

Question 21

The Federal system has determiend who has power in the US. For the states, why is the Federal system a good Idea.

Answer 21

This is a good idea because the states are much closer to the peopel than is the national government. The states are more responsive to the people.

Question 22

Does giving great powers to the states also a good idea because it recongizes the enourmous diversity of the US.

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

In the first 150 years as a nation, the federal system was balanced and worked well, which time period changed this? And why?

Answer 23

1930s-1940s. The huge national ecnomoic programs during the Great Depression and the huge effort to fight WWII gave the national government new poers. This weakend the Federal system.

Question 24

Because of the huge agencies and bureacracies in Washington, did Americans, and state and local officials begin losing their confidence in their own ability to solve problems?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

DId Ronald Regean reverse the changes brought in the 1930s-1940s?

Answer 25

Yes, his policies have restored power to the states and cities, and reduced the power of the cnetral government.

Question 26

How did State Officials feel of his reversal of the policies in the government.

Answer 26

The state officials at first hesitated and were reluctant to accept this new poer, now they are enthustiatic about it.

Question 27

Effects of Regean's reversal.

Answer 27

The states are the laboratories of new ideas and new ideas are coming from the states inhousing issues, education reform, help for the poor, and ways to clean the enviroment.

Question 28

Explain Privatizatiton

Answer 28

A process by which private companies and groups provide services that had been provided by the government.

Question 29

Advantages of Privatization

Answer 29

1st: Recues size of ogvernment and role in society. 2nd: Reduces government expenses because private firms almost always can provide. 3rd: More efficient and more responsive to the needs of the people.

Question 30

Examples of privatization

Answer 30

Former government services nwo prodivded by private firms include fire protection, garbage collegection, bus service, prison management, and even neighborhood court systems to resolve minor disputes.

Question 31

Ronald Reagan began the privatizatino of federal services and programs, give 2 examples.

Answer 31

Sold Conrail, one of America's largest railroads, to a private firm. Reagan also began the process of allowing private companies to build rockets to launch payloads into space.

Question 32

Explain the Constituition's division of powers

Answer 32

Congress makes laws, president enforces the laws, and the courts rule when there is a dispute about the laws.

Question 33

According to the Article have the Supreme Court become more aggressive? How?

Answer 33

They have taken some of the power from Congress and President and even have begun to make laws. Upsetting the balance of the central government.

Question 34

Did Ronald Reagan promise to stop the Supreme Court's "imbalance". If yes, how???

Answer 34

He apppointed judges to the court who respect the traditional role of the court and against the activist role of the court. Regean appoint 3 of the Supreme Court's nin judges and he appoitned 361 of the federal court system's 743 judges.

Question 35

Do the Judgs in the Supreme Court and federal court system keep their jobs for the rest of their lives?

Answer 35

Yes and can't be removed by presdients. So Reagan deliberatley apppoitned young people as judges.

Question 36

According to Wharton Reagan didnt' like the Liberal laws being passed and the Supreme Court's role in this so he did changes.

Answer 36

Know this.

Question 37

Throughotu the 1970s was the US military strong or weak? If the US Military is (strong/weak) this mean ....

Answer 37

Weak, so the US would find it difficult toe fullfill its security comitments to other nations. Questining whether the US would be abel to keep its promises to Western Europe or Japan or Israel or Southeast Asia.

Question 38

Can we deal with the USSR because of Ronald Regean's focus on building military strength?

Answer 38

Yes

Question 39

Did the rebuilding of the American arsenal change what the Soviets at one time liked to call the "global correlation of forces"

Answer 39

Yes

Question 40

Did the US give Moscow the advantage in negotiations early on because they wanted to make treaties with the Soviets?

Answer 40

Yes.

Question 41

In what treaties/exchanges did Soviets gain at the bargaining table?

Answer 41

SALT I, the ABM Treaty, cultural exchanges, SALT II

Question 42

What did Reagan do to regain the US self-confidence and advantage over the Soviets in negotiations?

Answer 42

Get a stronger military and was willing to allow negotiations to collapse so the Soviets would not get what they want.

Question 43

Dates of SALT I and SALT II talks:

Answer 43

1972 and 1979

Question 44

What happened in the SALT talks (both of them)

Answer 44

The Soviets were gonna walk away from the talks so America made new concessions to stop them from doing so.

Question 45

What ultimatum did the Soviets give Reagan that had to do with arms reductions?

Answer 45

They said that if the US deployed intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe, Moscow would stop negotiating arms reductions with the US. Reagan deployed them anyway like a sigma

Question 46

What did the INF treaty have to do with?

Answer 46

Arms reductions

Question 47

What happened at the Reykjavik summit?

Answer 47

Gorbachev issued his ultimatum: there could be a dramatic arms reduction only if the US would abandon the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Question 48

What were the START talks for?

Answer 48

deep arms reductions

Question 49

What is the Reagan Doctrine?

Answer 49

it recognizes that national liberation movements in the Third World can be on the side of freedom and democracy and that the US can help these national liberation movements win

Question 50

What did the Reagan Doctrine overcome?

Answer 50

The isolationist characteristic of the US

Question 51

Places the US challenged the Soviets:

Answer 51

Grenada, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Angola

Question 52

Reagan supports democracy but he's a republican just know that

Question 53

What did the Brezhnev Doctrine proclaim?

Answer 53

Once a country joins the Soviets, it must forever remain in the Soviet Union

Question 54

The most dramatic example of the Brezhnev Doctrine:

Answer 54

The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Question 55

President after Reagan:

Answer 55

George H.W Bush

Question 56

Most important Reagan policy according to the passage and why:

Answer 56

The Strategic Defense Initiative because it could stop a nuclear holocaust

Question 57

What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?

Answer 57

a moral and humanitarian policy to protect the US from Soviet's nuclear arsenal

Question 58

The Four presidents before Reagan in order:

Answer 58

Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter

Question 59

What does the passage refer to the US as?

Answer 59

The Middle Kingdom The US is in the center of the universe

Question 60

Where did Reagan visit in 1984 (its a university)

Answer 60

Fudan University in Shanghai to give a speech