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APUS: Chapter 40a (pp. 966- 972)

1) What were the policy issues that the “New Right” was looking for?

2) Explain the “neoconservative” agenda.

3) What were the main issues that caused the Carter administration to look bungling and befuddled?

4) Describe the shifts in US government policy as seen in the re-allocation of budget priorities between the 1960s and 1980 – use specifics.

5) Who were the “boll-weevils?” What was their agenda?

6) Explain the ideas that drove “supply-side economics,” or as they became called, Reaganomics.

7) Who were the “yuppies?” Describe their agenda – both political and social.

8) What was the effect on people, the money supply, and interest rates, of the massive deficits that the Reagan administration ran up?

9) Describe Reagan’s foreign policy – especially with regard to the USSR.

10)Explain the “Star Wars” program – how it was supposed to work, and what it was designed to achieve.

11)What was “Solidarity?”

12)Look up the Korean airliner incident. What happened, and what was the US accused of having done to justify the shooting?