COLD WAR SECTION 1: A CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT EMERGES. THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT BUILDS 1. Define entitlement programs. GROUPS THAT

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1 SECTION 1: A CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT EMERGES THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT BUILDS 1. Define entitlement programs. 2. Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed? THE NEW RIGHT 3. Which group of people belonged to the New Right? 4. List the social issues that concerned the New Right. Define and give an example of each term: 5. Affirmative action 6. Reverse discrimination THE CONSERVATIVE COALITION 7. Fill in the diagram to reflect the different groups that formed the Conservative Coalition. GROUPS THAT FORMED THE CONSERVATIVE C 8. Name a conservative newspaper from the 1980s. KS/2014 updated 1

2 9. Name a conservative magazine and the founder. 10. Why were the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation founded? THE MORAL MAJORITY Fill in the diagram to reflect the issues that conservatives strongly endorsed. Goals of the Conservative Movement 7. Describe the connection between evangelical Christianity televangelist TV and radio. 8. Name two of the most influential televangelists. 9. Which group belonged to the Moral Majority? 10. How do fundamentalist Christians differ from other religions? 11. What did fundamentalists condemn? 12. How did the Moral Majority work toward their political goals? KS/2014 updated 2

3 13. Who was the Moral Majority spokesman? 14. List 5 goals or concerns of the Moral Majority. SECTION 2: CONSERVATIVES WIN POLITICAL POWER REAGAN S QUALIFICATIONS 15. List Reagan s previous political experience. REAGAN S QUALIFICATIONS 16. List the key issues of Reagan s political campaign. 17. What previous job experience helped Reagan look like a good presidential candidate? 18. Why did Reagan proponents call him the great communicator? ELECTION OF 1980 (CIRCLE THE WINNER) Political Party Candidate Running Mate Republican Democrat Independent x GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER page Location: Which states and/or district voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980? KS/2014 updated 3

4 20. Region: Which region of the country North, South, East, or West voted exclusively for Ronald Reagan? SECTION 2: CONSERVATIVE POLICIES UNDER REAGAN AND BUSH 21. List the 3 parts of Reaganomics. REAGANOMICS TAKES OVER 22. What did Reagan think would happen if he reduced the size of the government and influence of the federal government? BUDGET CUTS 23. List the social programs that were cut by the Reagan administration. TAX CUTS 24. Reagonomics was a term given to. 25. What was the reasoning behind Reaganomics? 26. How much were taxes lowered over a 3 year period? KS/2014 updated 4

5 INCREASED DEFENSE SPENDING 27. How much did the Defense Department budget increase spending between 1981 and1984? 28. Name 2 controversial weapon systems that were revived. 29. Why did Reagan ask scientist to create the Strategic Defense Initiative? 30. Why was the Strategic Defense Initiative nicknamed Star Wars? RECESSION AND RECOVERY 31. When did the economy go into a recession and how long did it last? 32. When did the stock market crash losing 508 points in one day? 33. How was Reagan s trickle-down theory supposed to affect the economy? THE NATIONAL DEBT CLIMBS 34. Who benefited from the Reagan administration s tax cuts? 35. How did Reagonomics affect the government budget? 36. Why did Reagon back away from supply-side economics in 1982? 37. What happened to the national debt during his first term in office? JUDICIAL POWER SHIFTS TO THE RIGHT 38. Name 4 conservatives that Reagon appointed to the Supreme Court. 39. What was the significance of Sandra Day O Connor s appointment to the Supreme Court? KS/2014 updated 5

6 40. What was the controversy over the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court by President Bush? 41. What role did Anita Hill play in the Clarence Thomas controversy? DEREGULATING THE ECONOMY 42. Define deregulation. 43. List the industries that were deregulated. Include how they were deregulated. INDUSTRY Oil Nursing Homes Airline Industry Savings & Loan Industry Environmental Protection Agency DEREGULATION Result: Result: Result: Result: Result: 44. What role did James Watt play in the Reagon administration? 45. What did Reagan s secretary of the interior, James Watt, do with public land? 46. What happened to President Reagan on March 30, 1981 KS/2014 updated 6

7 CONSERVATIVE VICTORIES IN 1984 AND ELECTION OF 1984 (CIRCLE THE WINNER) Political Party Candidate Running Mate Republican Democrat 48. What was unusual about the election of 1984? SECTION 3: SOCIAL CONCERNS IN THE 1980s Health, Education, and Cities in Crisis 49. List the crisis that local governments were dealing with in the 1980s. HEALTH ISSUES 50. What is AIDs and explain how the disease is transmitted. ABORTION 51. Explain the difference between the Pro Life group and the Pro Chose group. 52. How did Webster v. Reproductive Health Care Services differ from Roe v. Wade? DRUG ABUSE 53. What did the Reagan administration do about the drug abuse problem in the 1980 s? EDUCATION 54. What were the results or findings of the federal commission report on education titled Nation at Risk? KS/2014 updated 7

8 THE URBAN CRISIS 55. Describe what life was like for poor people and racial minorities left behind in the cities. 56. Describe the events that took place in south-central Los Angeles between 4 white officers and an African-American male named Rodney King. THE EQUAL RIGHTS STRUGGLE POLITICAL LOSSES AND GAINS 57. What happened to the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982? SKILLBUILDER INTERPRETING CHARTS Use Women s and Men s Average Yearly Earnings in Selected Careers, 1982 to answer the following question. 58. Name one career that paid men and women almost equally. 59. What conclusion can you draw from the chart? INEQUALITY 60. Why did women s organizations and unions propose a system of pay equity? 61. List 5 improvements that women fought for in the workplace. 62. What did the Reagan administration do to help women s rights? THE FIGHT FOR RIGHTS CONTINUES AFRICAN AMERICANS 63. Who became the nation s first African American governor? KS/2014 updated 8

9 64. What role did Jesse Jackson play in politics in 1984 and again in 1988? LATINOS 65. Define demographer. 66. Explain why Latinos supported bilingual education. 67. What did critics argue concerning bilingual education? NATIVE AMERICANS SPEAK OUT 68. How did the Reagan administration assist Native Americans during the 80 s? 69. Why did Native Americans campaign for gambling casinos on their land? ASIANS 70. What was the 2 nd fastest growing minority population during the 1980s? THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT ADVANCES 71. Explain the setbacks suffered by gays and lesbians in their fights for civil rights during the 1980s. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 72. Define Affirmative Action. 73. Why are the North Central and Northeast regions called the Rustbelt? 74. Why is the west sometimes called Ecotopia? KS/2014 updated 9

10 SECTION 4: FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE THE ENDS 1. Who is Mikhail Gorbachev? 2. List 3 problems facing the USSR in the 1980 s. 3. What role did Gorbachev play in ending the Cold War? 4. Define glasnost. 5. Define perostrokia. 6. Why did Gorbachev initiate the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty)? Communism Continues in China 7. Describe the events that occurred in Tiananmen Square. Describe the famous photo taken of the Chinese protestor. 1. What was the first country to challenge Communist control? 2. Who was their leader? 3. What was solidarity? KS/2014 updated 10

11 4. What did the solidarity movement force Poland s communist government to do? 5. In May of 1989, barbed wire was being torn down between the borders of Hungary and what other country? 6. List 4 Eastern European countries that gained their freedom by January of What happened to the Warsaw Pact? 8. When did the Berlin Wall come down? 9. What is the impact of this event? 10. How did Gorbachev impact the fall of Communism? 11. Who won the Cold War? 1. What were the results of the US/USSR Summit meetings during Reagan s presidency? 2. In 1987, the US and USSR signed the INF treaty. Describe the treaty. Global Intervention Directions: Include the answers to these two questions in each answer. (1) Why the Reagan Administration intervene? (2) How did his administration intervene? 1. El Salvador KS/2014 updated 11

12 2. Nicaragua 3. Grenada 4. Explain why Congress forbade further aid to Nicaragua. 5. Who were the Contras? 6. Who were the Sandinistas? 7. What was the Iran-Contra scandal about? 8. What roll did Oliver North play in the scandal? 9. What infuriated Congress about the scandal? 10. Trace the events of the Iran-Contra scandal beginning to end. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) KS/2014 updated 12