HIST 12 M12; RQ

(Q002) A major initiative of the Carter administration was the

Panama Canal treaty.

(Q014) What was the 1978 Supreme Court decision that rejected the idea of fixed affirmative action quotas, but allowed that race could be used as one factor among many in admissions decisions?

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

(Q006) Nixon was the first American president to visit the Soviet Union, wherein he engaged in negotiations for increased trade and arms-control treaties called

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).

(Q005) As a result of this 1971 Supreme Court case, judges throughout the country ordered the use of busing as a tool to achieve school integration.

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

(Q013) In 1979 there was a near-fatal accident at a nuclear power plant that released a large amount of radioactive steam into the atmosphere at

Three Mile Island.

(Q037) After assuming office, President Nixon called for a gradual halt to American military involvement in Vietnam.

True

(Q038) The Reagan administration conducted a massive expansion of military spending during the 1980s.

True

(Q041) By the 1990s, public schools in the North were considerably more segregated than those in the South.

True

(Q042) During the 1970s, the divorce rate soared; by 1975, it was twice what it had been a decade earlier.

True

(Q044) By 1979, there were thousands of local gay rights groups across the United States.

True

(Q019) From 1973 to 1993, real wages

began to fall.

(Q003) In Nixon's first three years in office, the proportion of southern black students attending integrated schools

decreased initially, but steadily climbed by the third year.

(Q032) The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibited

discrimination based on disability.

(Q011) Prior to taking office, Jimmy Carter achieved which of the following?

holding a federal office.

(Q010) In Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" campaign,

inflation fell but joblessness continued to rise.

The Iranian revolution deeply impacted the public's view of Carter's administration. After hostages were taken captive in Tehran, they were finally released

on Carter's last day as president of the United States.

(Q018) "Stagflation" refers to

stagnant economic growth and high inflation.

(Q007) In 1971, the New York Times began publishing this classified report prepared by the Defense Department that traced American involvement in Vietnam back to World War II and revealed how successive presidents had misled the American people about it.

the Pentagon Papers

(Q001) During the second half of the 1960s and the 1970s, conservative Christianity increasingly aligned with

the Republican Party.

(Q009) In 1973, long lines of cars appeared at American gas stations, which either ran out of fuel or limited how much a customer could buy as a result of

the oil embargo.