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Peanuts The Outsider 1980 Taxes Anyone? Trouble Abroad The Home Front $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

Peanuts - $100 Running as a Dem Peanuts - $100 Running as a Dem. On the ticket “I’ll never lie to you”, he beat Jerry Ford in 1976? C1-$100 James Earl Carter

Peanuts - $200 Carter’s 1st act as President was? Pardon American draft dodgers

Peanuts - $300 Carter’s new Federal Agency? Department of Energy

Peanuts - $400 Carter brought the leaders of Israel and Egypt together and got a tentative peace. This is called? C1-$400 Camp David Accords

Turned the Canal over to Panama Peanuts - $500 Carter’s give away of the Monroe Doctrine resulted in this? C1-$500 Turned the Canal over to Panama

A cartel Oil Producing and Exporting Countries The Outsider - $100 Carter had to deal with OPEC over rising costs. What is OPEC? C2-$100 A cartel Oil Producing and Exporting Countries

The Outsider - $200 This climbed to 20% in 1980. It is? The prime rate

Muslims take hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran The Outsider - $300 Carter’s largest crisis occurred in Iran. What was it? C2-$300 Muslims take hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran

American self-esteem plummeted as the rescue helicopters crashed. The Outsider - $400 Carter decided to rescue the hostages. What happened? C2-$400 American self-esteem plummeted as the rescue helicopters crashed.

The Outsider - $500 The Soviets began aggressively moving toward the Persian Gulf. Carter responded by? C2-$500 Embargoing grain and technology. Then by boycotting the Moscow Olympic Games

1980 - $100 On the platform of ABC, Teddy Kennedy fought it out with Carter. What does ABC mean? Anybody but Carter

1980 - $200 The Reps. ran this “former” Governor of California 1980 - $200 The Reps. ran this “former” Governor of California. Who was he? C3-$200 Ronald Reagan

1980 - $300 What happened the day that Reagan was inaugurated? C3-$300 Iranian Hostages were freed

1980 - $400 Reagan was devoted to this economic program. Name it? Fiscal Fitness also called supply side economics (Later Reaganomics)

1980 - $500 What was Reagan’s approach to government? Anti-federalism (states rights)

Taxes Anyone? - $100 Cutting deeply into Johnson’s Great Society, Congress made huge cuts in this? Social Programs

Democrats who voted Rep. mostly from the South Taxes Anyone? - $200 Thanks to “boll weevils”, Reagan got a huge 25% tax reduction through Congress. Who were the boll weevils? C3-200 Democrats who voted Rep. mostly from the South

Taxes Anyone? - $300 New investment, greater productivity, and dramatic growth caused by lower taxes. This new economics was called? C3-$300 Supply side economics (Reaganomics) It flew in the face of Keynesian economics

Taxes Anyone? - $400 Reagan redirected huge amounts of money to this Federal Department? Department of Defense

Taxes Anyone? - $500 Reaganomics ultimately resulted in an improved economy, but also this? A huge Federal deficit

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Trouble Abroad- $100 Reagan’s “trump” hand in the continuing war of words with the Soviets? C4-$100 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Trouble Abroad - $200 Poland tried to gain freedom from the Soviets using labor unions called this? Solidarity

Granada and El Salvador Trouble Abroad - $300 Two trouble spots in the Western hemisphere where Reagan invoked the Monroe Doctrine? C4-$300 Granada and El Salvador

Perestroika - Restructuring Trouble Abroad - $400 In his 2nd term Reagan had to deal with Mikhail Gorbechev & these two new terms? C4-$400 Glasnots – openness Perestroika - Restructuring

Trouble Abroad - $500 Reagan’s worst handling of Foreign Affairs was this international boondoggle? C4-$500 Iran-Contra Affairs

The Home Front - $100 Nothing harmful could stick to Pres The Home Front - $100 Nothing harmful could stick to Pres. Reagan earning him this nickname? C4-$100 The Teflon President

The Home Front - $200 Reagan appointed the 1st woman to the Supreme Court. Her name is? Sandra Day O’Connor

The Home Front - $300 These were the Presidential candidates in 1988 and their parties? Michael Dukakis – Dem. George H.W. Bush – Rep.

A kinder, gentler America The Home Front - $400 In seeming opposition to Reagan, Bush called for this? C4-$400 A kinder, gentler America

The Home Front - $500 These world events happened in Bush’s 1st year as Pres.? C4-$500 Germany was reunited, Berlin Wall came down, E. Europe & Russia freed from Communist control, End of Cold War