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26th, lowered, 18
President Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" of the war in Vietnam called for
A gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese
American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing
Alcatraz island and Wounded Knee, South Dakota
As a result of US support for Israel in 1973 when it was attacked by Egypt and Syria
Arab nations placed an embargo on oil to America
Arrange the following events in chronological order: A) Arab oil embargo, B) Iranian hostage crisis, C) fall of Saigon, D) invasion of Afghanistan
Arab oil embargo, fall of Saigon, Iranian hostage crisis, invasion of Afghanistan
President Jimmy Carter's most spectacular foreign policy achievement was the
Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt
President Nixon's chief foreign-policy adviser was
Henry Kissinger
The high inflation rate of the 1970s stemmed primarily from
LBJs refusal to raise taxes for spending on social welfare programs and the Vietnam war
President Carter believed that the fundamental problem of the American economy in the late 1970s was
US dependence on foreign oil
Vice President SPiro Agnew was forced to resign in 1973 after being accused of
accepting bribes
THe Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because
an antifeminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it
George McGovern, the Democratic party's presidential nominee in 1972, apealed most strongly to the
antiwar movement
The Watergate scandals caused by the actions of Richard Nixon's staff in the 1972 presidential campaign involved all of the following EXCEPT
ballot stuffing
George McGovern, the Democratics nominee for the presidency in 1972, alienated the traditional working class backbone of the Democratic party
by appealing to racial minorities, feminists, and youth
The decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren reflected its
deep concern for the individual
Perhaps Nixon most valuable asset as he began his presidency in 1969 was his
expertise in foreign affairs
THe Pentagon Papers, published in 1971
exposed the deception that had led the US into the Vietnam War
Nixon tried to resist to giving his taped conversations to the special prosecutor and the Congress by claiming that
he had executive privilege (confidentiality)
During the Senate Watergate hearings, oneof the most damaging revelations for Richard Nixon was that
his conversations in person and on the telephone had been recorded on tape
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter enjoyed considerable popularity when he won the presidency because
his emphasis on honesty contrasted with the corruptions of Watergate
The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that the US would
honor its existing defense commitment, but that in the future its allies would have to fight their own wars without large numbers of American troops
The guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy was
human rights
To control creeping inflation in the early 1970s, President Nixon
imposed a ninety day wage and price freeze
Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy included all of the following EXCEPT
increased American troop commitments
The SALT II Treaty between the Soviet Union and the US died in the Senate when the Soveits
invaded Afghanistan
The most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency was
pardoning Nixon for any known or unknown crimes he had committed during the Nixon presidency
The Helsinki accords, signed by Gerald Ford and leaders of thirty-four nations
pledge signatories to guarantee certain basic human rights
Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 to
prohibit sex discrimination in any federally funded education program or activity
The Supreme Court in the Bakke case held that
racial quotas were unconstitutional but race could be taken into account as one factor in college admissions
The major goal successfully pursued by Indian civil rights activitists in the 1970s was
recogniton of the semi-sovereign status of the various Indian tribes under American law
The effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Milliken vs Bradley tha tintegration did not have to take place across school district lines was to
reinforce the division between poorer, minority inner city schools and nearly all white suburbs
Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan
required construction trade unions to establish timetables and goals for hiring black apprentices
The 1973 War Powers Act
required the president to report to Congress any commitment American troops
When it came to welfare programs, Richard Nixon
supported significant expansionin many areas
The difference between Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action programs and those of Richard Nixon was
that Johnson intended to help indiviudals, but Nixon conferred privileges on groups
As a result of Richard Nixon's aerial bombing of neutral Cambodia in 1973
the Cambodian economy was ruined and its politics revolutionized
All of the following are legacies of Richard Nixon's presidency EXCEPT
the Food Stamp program
In an effort to counter OPEC, the US took the lead in forming
the International Energy Agency
Boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games was one measure taken by President Carter in response to
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
As part of the cease fire agreement in Vietnam in 1973
the US was to withdraw all of its troops from Vietnam
By the early 1970s, the post-WWII economic boom had crested as a result of all of the following except
the economic recovery of Japan and Germany
The one major social movement born in the 1960s that regained and gathered momentum in the 1970s and after was
the feminist movement
one reaseon for the decline of American workers' productivity during the 1970s was
the general shift in the economy from manufacturing to services or could be a drastic decline in workers productivity
The AMerican armed forces in Vietnam were composed largely of
the least privileged youn Americans
In Griswold vs Connecticut, the Supreme Court upheld a married couple's right to use contraceptives based on
the right to privacy
The people of the US had provided just about everything for South Vietnam EXCEPT
the will to win the war
The term "second wave feminism" refers to
those like Betty Friedan who revived feminism in the 1960s and 1970s as a broad movement for women't rights and opportunities
A primary goal of both the first and second wave of Vietnamese refugees was
to keep their large extended families together
Richard Nixon's policy of detente
ushered in an ear of relaxed tensions between the US and the two leading communist powers, China and Soviet Union
The Supreme Court case of Roe v Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortioni were unconstitutional because they
violated a woman's constitutional right to privacy in her own person
The first wave of Vietnamese refugees who came to the US in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War
were first forced into "assimilation cams" scattered across the country
Moderate and radical feminists differed over all the following issues EXCEPT
women's right to choose abortion
The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), passed by Congress in 1972 and eventually ratified by 35 states, stated the following:
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or any state on the basis of sex."
