Reagan and the Evil Empire

Question 1

President Reagan’s plans for the Strategic Defense Initiative

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pressured the USSR into building a similar system.

Question 2

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 3

Conflicts over religious differences and oil supplies in the Middle East

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affect American foreign policy today.

Question 4

The nickname for President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative was

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“Star Wars.”

Question 5

Middle Eastern terrorists targeted the United States because

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the United States intervened in Middle Eastern politics.

Question 6

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 7

President Reagan’s use of the term evil empire referred to

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the USSR.

Question 8

Many people in the Middle East were angered because the United States refused to sanction Israel for its invasion of

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Lebanon.

Question 9

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

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leftists.

Question 10

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

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