chapter 29

Which of the following led to the most significant escalation of United States military involvement in Vietnam?

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The most significant cause of the 1973-1974 embargo by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was

United States support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War

The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT), expanded trade with the Soviet Union, and President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China were all facets of the policy of

détente

During his presidency, Richard Nixon did which of the following?

ended American participation in the war in Vietnam

Richard Nixon's diplomatic overtures to the People's Republic of China were motivated in part by his belief that China

had become an important global power that could not be ignored

The decade of the 1970s was marked by all of the following economic conditions in the United States EXCEPT

increased labor union membership among aoutoworkers

The initial response of the United Stated to the outbreak of war in Korea was to

seek collective action against North Korea through the United Nation

The central point of the 1960s cartoon above was that

the cost of the Vietnam War limited the President's ability to carry out domestic programs

In 1962, which of the following contributed most directly to a crisis in Soviet-American relations over Cuba?

the discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba

"We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. "When we were kids, the United States was the wealthiest and strongest country in the world; the only one with the atom bomb, the least scarred by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations.... "As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events too troubling to dismiss.... "The conventional moral terms of the age, the politician moralities—'free world,' 'people's democracies' reflect realities poorly, if at all, and seem to function more as ruling myths than as descriptive principles.... "The bridge to political power, though, will be built through genuine cooperation, locally, nationally, and internationally, between a new left of young people, and an awakening community of allies." Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Port Huron Statement, 1962 Which of the following post-1945 developments contributed most strongly to the discomfort that members of SDS felt?

the disillusionment of United States domestic values and Cold War events