7th Grade History                                  Name: _________________________________________  Score:
Teacher: Mr. Cap   Quiz over  Chapter 25 1st 1/2              

1.What was special about the election of 1984? ____________________________________________________

2. What happened when Reagan restored strength of the US Army, Navy, and Air Force? ____________________

3.  Name three issues in America during the election of 1980. ______________________

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4.  Ronald Reagan was the former governor of _____________________ and actor.

5.  Reagan wins in a landslide ________________ electoral votes to Carter's ___________

6.  Why was Reagan called the Great Communicator? _____________________________

7.  What was Reaganomics? ________________________________________________

8.  Who was the first woman prime minister of England? ___________________________

9.  President Reagan built up the strength of the nation's Army, Navy, and Air Force, enabling the nation to exercise

____________________ through ________________________________.

10.  Where did the U.S. stand up to communism?  _________________________________________________________

11.  _______________ ______________________airline apparently strayed into Soviet Airspace, and was shot down by the Communists.  269 people were killed.

12.  INF Treaty with new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to remove all medium range ___________ from Europe.

13.  Problems caused by Communism.  Under Communism (where the state gives you a job) there was little

__________________________ to work hard or improve their skills.

14.  Soviets spent time & money on ___________ so they could not provide basic food, clothing and shelter for its people.

15.  Communists public image and economy was collapsing as Reagan and others called it the "________________"

16.  What was the knickname for SDI? __________________________________________

17.  By 1990  the Russian people elected _____________________________he resigned from the Communist Party, and declared the 15 Soviet Bloc countries free.

18.  Who was the first woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court? ________________________________________