1.  In the 1980 Winter Olympics the US _____________ team

beat the _______________ team in the ‘Miracle on Ice.’

2.  What questions did Reagan tell voters to ask themselves in 1980?
 

3.  What did Reagan say America’s problem was?
 

4.  What policy limited the government’s role in business?
 

5.  What was Reagan’s policy of helping the rich prosper so they would spend their wealth and boost the economy called?
 

6.  What new disease appeared in the early 1980s?
 

7.  What virus spreads this disease?
 

8.  Reagan was called the __________________ President.

9.  What was Reagan’s attitude towards the Soviet Union?
 

10.  What was Reagan’s favourite defence plan?
 

11.  Where were US Marines sent in 1982?
 

12.  Who did the US deal with in the Middle East to secure the release of the hostages in Lebanon?
 

13.  Who did the US arm in the Iran-Iraq War?
 

14.  What were young, urban professionals called?
 

15.  Billions of dollars were stolen after the deregulation

of the _________________ business.
 
16.  What was the easiest way to make money in the inner cities?
 

17.  ‘Just say ______.’

18.  What happened on 28 January 1986 at Cape Canaveral?
 

19.  What was the first music video aired on MTV?
 

20.  What cable network did Ted Turner create in 1980?
 

21.  Silicon chips let engineers create ____________ computers.

22.  The most revolutionary computer company of the early

1980s was ________________ Computer.

23.  Bill Gates and Microsoft grew rich selling __________.
 

24.  Who became leader of the USSR in 1985?
 

25.  What is glasnost?
 

26.  What is perestroika?
 

27.  In 1987 Gorbechev ended the war in ______________.

28.  In 1989 Chinese students protested in _______________ Square.

29.  Who led Polish dissidents in the labour union Solidarty?

30.  What happened in Germany in 1989?
 

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