- During his first year in office, President Bill Clinton successfully pushed through Congress
Your answer:
a plan for national health-care reform.
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico.
a budget that provided for a much expanded federal-jobs program and other pump-priming measures to stimulate the economy.
a measure opening opportunities for military service to declared homosexuals.
a campaign reform bill that limited “soft money” contributions to political parties.
- What did President Bush mean when he said, "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all"?
Your answer:
The United States was no longer afraid to reduce its massive military budget.
The United States was no longer afraid to use its military might around the world.
Never again would a small nation be threatened by aggression from a neighbor.
Former communist nations once again would be allowed to join the world of international trade.
The United States would never again get militarily involved in a distant foreign country.
- Which of the following statements about the election of 1992 is correct?
Your answer:
The right wing of the Republican party dominated its national convention and wrote its platform.
An independent candidate for the presidency won a larger portion of the vote than any other third-party candidate had won since the election of 1912.
Bill Clinton's victory owed much to his success in reviving the New Deal Democratic coalition.
It marked a shift of voter attention to domestic issues as the Cold War faded.
all of these
- The end of the Cold War was marked by all of the following except
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the reunification of Germany.
the fall of the Berlin Wall.
declarations of independence by the Baltic republics.
collapse of the hard-line leadership of China.
collapse of communism in the Soviet Union.
- In the early 1990s, all of the following occurred in the Soviet Union except
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changing the name Moscow back to its original name, St. Petersburg.
economic collapse.
the demise of the Communist party.
the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev.
the rise of Boris Yeltsin.
- What was United States policy toward the Soviet empire as it disintegrated in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
Your answer:
to ensure security and order by providing nuclear weapons to Boris Yeltsin and his anticommunist allies
to provide swift diplomatic recognition and economic assistance to the former Soviet republics as they declared their independence
to encourage Western nations to provide massive economic assistance that would ease the transition to a free-market economy
to proceed cautiously, to consider economic aid, and to work to reduce both the American and the Russian nuclear arsenal
to threaten the use of military force if the Russian government did not bring stability back to the country
- The Intifada was
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a group that opposed the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.
a covert operation to swap arms for hostages in Iran.
a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.
Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
the code name for the invasion of Panama to capture Manuel Noriega.
- Which of the following developments occurred in the aftermath of the Cold War's end?
Your answer:
the collapse of totalitarian ideology in a major region of the world
the diminished threat of nuclear war
the enhanced stature of the United States
heightened concern about the control of nuclear weapons
all of these
- In which of the following ways was Operation Desert Storm different from the Vietnam War?
Your answer:
President Bush built a consensus for action.
President Bush articulated a clear military objective.
President Bush provided the military support necessary to achieve the goal.
It was fought with use of maximum force from the early stages.
all of these
- President Clinton's "New Democratic Coalition" was a
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group of moderates who sought to shed the Democratic party's reputation for ultra-liberalism and wasteful spending.
group of ultra-liberals who sought to return the Democratic party to the policies of Franklin Roosevelt.
spin-off of the Christian Coalition.
group dominated by feminists and environmentalists.
a coalition of former Reagan Democrats and Carter Republicans.
- "Don't ask, don't tell" is a phrase that refers to
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the Supreme Court's 1994 ruling on pornography.
the health care plan developed by Hillary Rodham Clinton's task force.
the Clinton administration's compromise on the issue of homosexuals in the military.
Rush Limbaugh's attitude toward the Whitewater Development Company controversy.
the military plans for the Gulf War.
- In the 1994 mid-term elections
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the Republicans won majorities in both houses of Congress.
there was an unusually high voter turnout.
the Democrats held on to the House, but lost the Senate.
the voters indicated that they wanted more government programs to help the poor and crack down on monopolistic corporations.
voters demonstrated their lack of interest in any issues by voting for minor-party candidates.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health-care task force
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worked mainly in secret.
mandated that employers pay 80% of workers’ health-insurance costs.
proposed new taxes on tobacco.
Included a national health board to monitor costs.
all of these.
- What do David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Stephen Breyer have in common?
Your answer:
They all joined the Supreme Court during the 1990s.
They all dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president in 1992, clearing the way for Bill Clinton to run.
They all were members of George Bush’s cabinet from 1989 to 1992.
They all testified that Bill Clinton had sexually harassed his secretary when he was governor of Arkansas.
They were all prominent Americans who acknowledged during the 1990s that they had AIDS.
- The Welfare Reform Act of 1996
Your answer:
was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress over President Clinton’s veto.
generally followed principles favored by liberals since the days of the New Deal.
ended all welfare payments to adults within one year after its passage.
limited welfare payments for most recipients to two years.
e. provided the largest increase in welfare benefits since the New Deal.