After the discovery of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), how did research completed by United States and France help isolate the disease?

1. How did the Japanese automobile industry negatively affect the United States?
2. After the discovery of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), how did research completed by United States and France help isolate the disease?
3. Summarize the issues that the “Old Right” and the “New Right” wing conservatives felt strongly about.
-In what way was the “New Right” different from the “Old Right”?
4. At the beginning of the Reagan Administration, explain the two components of the president’s economic program that were a great success and why they were important.
5. In the early 1980’s, Americans found themselves in a deep recession. Discuss the factors that helped the economy rebound in 1984.
6. Under President Reagan, what happened to the national debt? Why did this happen, and how did he work to fix it?
7. What three events led to greater tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union?
-How was President Reagan able to ease the tensions with the Soviet Union?
8. Explain the tragedy that took place in the space program in 1986.
-How did the space program respond to this tragedy?
9. Under the Reagan Administration, why did the government sell weapons to Iran, and what was done with the money?
10.. What three factors made it difficult for President George Herbert Walker Bush to keep his promise to not raise taxes?
11. Describe how President Bush’s agreement with Gorbachev and with Yeltsin eliminated the conflict over nuclear weapons.
12. What vital resource influenced the United States to become involved in the Gulf War?
-How did the Gulf War improve relations between the U.S. and the Arab states, Israel, and Palestine?
13. President Bush received congressional backing for the brief U.S. invasion of Panama on December 20, 1989. What were the four reasons that he felt that this action was important?
14. What direction did President Clinton take to win the 1992 election?
15. Who was the most successful third party candidate for president, and what party did he belong to? What were the five issues that he focused his campaign on?
Fill-in-the Blank: Fill in the blank with the term/name of the country or area from the lesson that correctly completes each sentence:
16a. In the country of __________the USA backed the Contras who opposed the Sandinista guerillas because the Sandinistas had ties to Cuba. A scandal, the Iran-Contra Affair, occurred when the USA diverted money from arms sales to the Contras.
16b. The United States provided __________with a program of economic aid and military training when a guerrilla insurgency was threatening to topple its government.
16c. Military efforts in __________, where the United States was attempting to bolster a weak, but moderate, pro-Western government, ended tragically, when 241 U.S. Marines were killed in a terrorist bombing in October 1983.
16d. On October 25, 1983, U.S. forces landed on __________ after an urgent appeal for help by neighboring countries. The action followed the assassination of the country’s leftist prime minister by members of his own Marxist-oriented party. After a brief period of fighting, U.S. troops captured hundreds of Cuban military and construction personnel and seized caches of Soviet-supplied arms.
16e. The USA contributed to a move toward democracy by governments in __________.
16f. in December 1988, in the last weeks of the Reagan administration, years of patient U.S. mediation contribute to an historic peace settlement and independence for the territory of __________ in southern Africa.
16g. The United States condemned the continuing Soviet occupation of __________ and provided aid to the Mujahideen resistance there.

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