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True-False Questions

Which statements below are true and which are false?

This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
In November 1979, Iranian militants seized control of the US embassy in Teheran.

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Question 2.
The Iranian revolution choked off needed oil supplies to the United States and touched off a series of economic crises that crippled the Carter administration.

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Question 3.
Once in power, the Ayatollah Khomeini moved quickly to establish a strategic relationship with the Soviet Union.

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Question 4.
The Soviets acceded to Iranian demands to bring stability to neighboring Afghanistan. They invaded that country in 1979.

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Question 5.
Ronald Reagan was able to exploit the crises of the Carter years by projecting an image of strength and confidence.

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Question 6.
Ronald Reagan was quick to resurrect the dŽtente policies of the Nixon years vis-ˆ-vis the Soviet Union.

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Question 7.
The Reagan years marked the largest peacetime military build-up in American history.

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Question 8.
Troubled by charges of American excesses, Reagan cut the budget of the CIA and changed its strategic focus.

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Question 9.
California's Proposition 13 (1978) sought to increase property taxes in order to raise revenues spent on education programs.

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Question 10.
In order to pay for the gigantic defense build-up in the 1980s, the Reagan administration was forced to raise the federal income tax by nearly 25 percent.

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