Reagan and the Evil Empire — Unit test

Question 1

What was President Nixon’s first reaction to the special prosecutor’s request for the Watergate tapes?

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He fired the attorney general for refusing to fire the special prosecutor.

Question 2

What was significant about President Reagan’s appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court?

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She was the first woman appointed.

Question 3

A result of President Carter’s meeting at Camp David with the leaders of Israel and Egypt in 1978 was that Egypt and Israel

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signed a historic peace treaty.

Question 4

What did US intervention in the Middle East have in common with US intervention in Latin America?

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Both interventions were about stopping the spread of Communism.

Question 5

The two early economic plans proposed by President Carter

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did not improve economic growth.

Question 6

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, which nation broke up into many independent states?

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Yugoslavia

Question 7

Why was John Dean’s testimony against President Nixon so damaging?

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Dean had been an important official in the White House.

Question 8

At the time of his election, Ronald Reagan felt that the problems the United States was experiencing

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were the result of excessive government spending.

Reagan and the Evil Empire — Unit test Answers