Describe the problem that the Iran-Contra scandal posed for President Reagan and his administration. Who did what and why?
What will be an ideal response?
Members of the National Security Council and its staff, notably Oliver North, arranged to sell U.S. arms to Iranian officials, hoping to influence the succession to Ayatollah Khomeini's government. The money received in payment for the arms was funneled to the anticommunist Contras in Nicaragua, thus continuing U.S. aid that Congress had ordered stopped.
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A) a New England Whig B) a southern Democrat C) a western farmer D) a Texas plantation owner
Which one of the following did NOT occur during President Reagan's terms in office?
A) Both inflation and unemployment rates declined. B) Disposable personal income per capita increased. C) The income gap between rich and poor widened. D) The federal budget deficit declined.
Which leader of the African National Congress organized guerrilla resistance in 1960 against South African apartheid?
a. Leopold Senghor b. Kwame Nkrumah c. Jomo Kenyatta d. Nelson Mandela e. Patrice Lamumba.
Hamilton’s Report on the Public Credit recommended __________.
a. the renunciation of all old government debts b. that the states fund most government activities c. that the U.S. fund its foreign and domestic obligations at full face value d. that the federal government offer its creditors 80 percent of the face value of its obligations