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B) Robert Dole
C) Bill Clinton
D) Ross Perot
E) George Bush
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A) Citizens in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania demanded their independence from the Soviet Union.
B) George Bush announced to the world that he would not raise taxes.
C) Chinese communist forces killed hundreds of unarmed student demonstrators.
D) American demonstrators protested the Supreme Court's stance on abortion.
E) Cuban exiles attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro but were slaughtered outside his office.
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A) Federal deficits were temporarily ended.
B) Interest rates dropped to all time lows.
C) Inflation remained low.
D) Consumer spending and credit increased.
E) Unemployment rates fell.
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A) He created NOW and campaigned for women's rights.
B) He served as the official chaplain for President Ronald Reagan.
C) He used his ministry to expose the sins of Democratic Party members.
D) He established Moral Majority as a pro-life, pro-family and pro-America group supporting conservative politicians.
E) He campaigned for Democratic candidates who claimed to be evangelical Christians.
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A) It translated into law the Supreme Court's 1994 ruling on pornography.
B) It was Clinton's program requiring insurance companies to provide coverage for pre-existing conditions.
C) It was Clinton's compromise on his promise to end the ban on gays in the military.
D) Rush Limbaugh managed to shame the president for the Whitewater Development Company controversy.
E) It outlined the American military's secret plans for the Gulf War.
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A) by increasing revenue from taxes, the country could spend more for defense programs.
B) by cutting taxes, the country's economy would expand and produce more revenue for the federal government.
C) by reducing defense programs, the country could spend more money on domestic programs.
D) by eliminating the income tax and adopted a national sales tax, the country could afford to spend more money on both domestic and defense programs.
E) by raising the income tax and increased corporate taxes, the country could expand its domestic and defense programs.
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A) Contrary to Congressional restrictions, the White House secretly continued to funnel money to the forces fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua
B) The CIA had secretly funded the government of Ayatollah Khomeini for five years.
C) The CIA had been providing money and arms to the Sandinistas.
D) Iran was shipping missiles to Nicaragua to support the Contras.
E) None of these choices.
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A) The Philippines legislature voted to close two U.S. naval bases.
B) The Kurds of Iraq successfully defied Saddam Hussein and established an independent state.
C) Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from office, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
D) Many former Soviet republics declared their independence.
E) South Africa abandoned most of its apartheid policies.
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A) Reagan won by a razor-thin margin, but the Republicans lost seats in both the House and the Senate.
B) Carter lost, but he held such traditional New Deal Democratic voters as blue-collar workers and white southerners.
C) Reagan won in a landslide by capturing all western and northeastern states, although the solid South remained firmly Democratic.
D) Reagan won about 51 percent of the popular vote, and Republicans gained control of the Senate for the first time since 1955.
E) Carter won by a slim margin over Gerald Ford, but the Democrats regained control of the Senate and House of Representatives.
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A) It was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress over President Clinton's veto.
B) It generally followed principles favored by liberals since the days of the New Deal.
C) It ended all welfare payments to adults within one year after its passage.
D) It limited welfare payments for most recipients to two years with a five-year lifetime cap.
E) It provided the largest increase in welfare benefits since the New Deal.
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A) The reunification of Germany
B) The fall of the Berlin Wall
C) Declarations of independence by the Baltic republics
D) Collapse of the hard-line leadership of China
E) Collapse of communism in the Soviet Union
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