Chapter 25 Search for Solutions   1. In what area of the world did President Jimmy Carter experience his greatest triumph and failure?     A) Asia     B) the Middle East     C) Europe     D) Latin America   2. Which of the following established a peace between Egypt and Israel in 1979?     A) the Yalta Conference     B) the Panama Canal treaties     C) the Camp David Accords     D) the Treaty of Versailles   3. After the Shah of Iran was forced to flee in 1979, who headed the new religious regime in Iran?     A) Mikhail Gorbachev     B) Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini     C) Anwar el-Sadat     D) Menachem Begin   4. What was a major result of anti-American feelings in Iran in 1979?     A) The United States launched an attack on Iran.     B) Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran, taking hostages.     C) an oil embargo     D) an Iranian military attack on the United States   5. Which of the following was not a program in which government spending was reduced as a part of President Ronald Reagan's economic policy?     A) education     B) medicare     C) job training     D) defense   6. What is the term for the difference between the amount of money the government takes in and what it spends?     A) perestroika     B) recession     C) federal deficit     D) supply-side economics   7. Who did Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale choose as his vice-presidential running mate in the 1984 election?     A) Sandra Day O'Connor     B) Geraldine Ferraro     C) Elizabeth Dole     D) Bob Dole   8. How did President Ronald Reagan's staff react to his "hands-off" policy toward the day-to-day work of the presidency?     A) quit their jobs, complaining of being overworked     B) made policy decisions on their own     C) refused to make any decisions     D) reported his inaction to the Congress   9. Who among the following was not implicated in the Iran-contra scandal?     A) Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North     B) Robert McFarland     C) John Poindexter     D) Colin Powell   10. Who won the presidential election of 1988?     A) George Bush     B) Ronald Reagan     C) Michael Dukakis     D) Reverend Jesse Jackson   11. Which of the following was not included in George Bush's occupational background?     A) director of the CIA     B) actor     C) vice president     D) ambassador to the United Nations   12. Who attempted a coup d'état, or sudden revolt, in Russia in 1991?     A) a group of democratic reformers     B) Boris Yeltsin     C) a hard-line Communist group     D) Mikhail Gorbachev   13. What was established as the new name for the former Soviet Union?     A) Russia     B) the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)     C) the Warsaw Pact     D) NATO   14. Which of the following is NOT an accurate description of the situation in the former Soviet bloc states after the breakup of the Soviet Union?     A) unemployment rose     B) prices fell     C) ethnic tensions increased     D) shortages in fuel, food, medicine, and housing   15. Who among the following led a lightening swift ground assault in the Persian Gulf War?     A) Dwight D. Eisenhower     B) Saddam Hussein     C) Colin Powell     D) Norman Schwarzkopf