How did George H.W. Bush respond to threats to U.S. interests as the Cold War came to an end?
Short Answer Questions (these will be the basis for the short answer on the test)
1. How did George H.W. Bush respond to threats to U.S. interests as the Cold War came to an end? (pp. 1041-1048)
2. What policies of the Clinton administration reflect the president’s efforts to move his party to the right? (pp. 1048-1054)
3. What obstacles stood in the way of Obama’s reform agenda? (pp.1068-1071)
Review (these questions will be the basis for the multiple-choice questions)
1. President George H. W. Bush was more inclined than President Reagan had been to ______________________________________.
2. What did the 1991 Americans with Disabilities Act require?
3. Why did George H. W. Bush ultimately abandon his no-new-taxes pledge?
4. Why did he United States intervene in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
5. Which organization authorized the use of force against Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991?
6. What persuaded Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to announce the withdrawal of his troops from Kuwait in the first Gulf War?
7. Did Congress and the American people support Operation Desert Storm of 1991?
8. The Clinton administration ended its eight-year term in office with_______________________.
9. Which piece of legislation enabled workers in larger companies to take time off for the birth or adoption of a child, for the care of aging parents, and for family emergencies?
10. What was result of the Congressional elections of 1994?
11. The welfare reform measures passed during the Clinton presidency _______________.
12. On what grounds did the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Clinton?
13. What did the economic boom of the 1990s mean for unskilled and semiskilled workers in the United States?
14. Why did President Clinton order missile attacks on sites in Afghanistan in the summer of 1998?
15. Why did President Clinton launch air strikes against Iraq in 1993?
16. In a meeting at the White House in September 1993, what was agreed to by Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin?
17. At the end of the twentieth century, what facilitated globalization?
18. What was the purpose of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement?
19. How did President Clinton appease critics of globalization in 2000?
20. Which was the largest minority group in the nation by 2004? What characteristic made the majority of post-1965 immigrants to the United States much like their nineteenth-century predecessors?
21. Who won the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in the presidential election of 2000?
22. What finally decided the outcome of the 2000 presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush?
23. What commitment was reflected in President George W. Bush’s environmental policies?
24. What motivated Al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001?
25. What was the purpose of the USA Patriot Act of 2001?
26. Give an example of President George W. Bush’s policy of preemption?
27. After the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, what were George Bush and his advisors unprepared for in Iraq?
28. What was the outcome of the presidential election of 2004?
29. Which piece of legislation represented the largest expansion of government since the Great Society?
30. In what major way did Barack Obama’s foreign policy differ from that of George H. W. Bush?
31. Who formed the base of the Tea Party political movement?
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President George H. W. Bush was more inclined than President Reagan had been to
Approve government activity in the private sphere.
What did the 1991 Americans with Disabilities Act require?
It required that private and public businesses be accessible to people with disabilities.Why did George H. W. Bush ultimately abandon his no-new-taxes pledge?
He had inherited a huge budget deficit from the Reagan administration……………………………..
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