Reagan and the Evil Empire

Question 1

Which led to an increase in Cold War tensions between the US and the USSR in 1983?

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a breakdown in arms-control negotiations

Question 2

President Reagan’s plans for the Strategic Defense Initiative

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pressured the USSR into building a similar system.

Question 3

Conflicts over religious differences and oil supplies in the Middle East

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affect American foreign policy today.

Question 4

President Reagan believed the spread of Communism in Latin America was directly due to

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leftists.

Question 5

The nickname for President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative was

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“Star Wars.”

Question 6

Which best describes the connection between Iran and Nicaragua during the mid-1980s?

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Profits from arms sold to Iran were used to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.

Question 7

In response to a terrorist attack in West Germany in 1986, the United States bombed targets in which country?

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Libya

Question 8

After his election in 1980, which action did President Reagan take in regard to the USSR?

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He increased defense spending.

Question 9

In 1987, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which

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improved US-Soviet relations through the reduction of arms.

Question 10

What did US involvement in Nicaragua reveal about the Reagan administration?

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It was willing to operate outside the law to achieve its goals.

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