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The Environmental Protection Agency was created in ________ when ________ signed the National Environmental Protection Act into law.
1970; Richard Nixon
In the 1960s, the aspect of popular culture most strongly embraced by the counterculture was
Music.
Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, was named to the court by
Ronald Reagan.
Which of the following is true of the "New Left" that sprang up in the 1960s and 1970s?
The New Left was relatively racially diverse.
According to policies that came to be called the Nixon Doctrine, the United States would
assist in the development of friendly nations.
Ecology rests primarily on the assumption that nature should be preserved
because humans need to maintain the interrelated balance of life.
In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
both refused to ship oil to all nations that supported Israel, and raised the price of oil by 500 percent.
President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972
came after Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations.
In 1972, the Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the
offices of the Democratic National Committee.
In 1972, the United States' "Christmas bombing" of North Vietnam
saw the United States suffer, by far, its greatest loss of bombers in the war.
In 1964, a dispute broke out at the University of California at Berkeley over
the rights of students to engage in free speech.
In the 1970s, the Nixon administration believed the world's most volatile region to be
the so-called Third World.
In the 1950s, the federal "termination" policy as applied to American Indians sought to
withdraw all official recognition of the tribes as legal entities.
As a result of the Vietnam War,
All these answers are correct.
By the early 1990s, gay men and lesbians in the United States
All these answers are correct.
In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment
All these answers are correct.
In 1972, two Washington Post reporters uncovered evidence linking the Watergate break-in to
All these answers are correct.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s all of the following occurred due to American Indian activism, EXCEPT
Congress granting to reservations "independent nation" status within the United States.
All of the following statements regarding Latinos in the United States are true EXCEPT that
Cuban immigrants in the 1980s were more well-to-do than their counterparts in the 1960s.
The 1969 "Stonewall Riot" is associated with the civil rights movement for
Homosexuals.
In early 1973, allegations of misconduct by Richard Nixon were made by White House counsel
John Dean.
The killing of South Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers in the village of My Lai
None of these answers is correct.
Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement by focusing on problems concerning
Pesticides.
In the 1972 presidential election,
Richard Nixon won over 60 percent of the popular vote.
Between 1960 and 1970, the Latino population of the United States
Tripled.
In 1973, American Indian activists occupied the old Indian battle site of
Wounded Knee.
President Richard Nixon's proposed Family Assistance Plan included
a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.
President Richard Nixon believed U.S. foreign policy should work toward
a multipolar international structure.
The 1969 Woodstock music festival was
a powerful symbol of the ideals of the counterculture philosophy.
By the end of their first year in office, Nixon and Kissinger had concluded that the most effective way to tip the military balance in America's favor was to
destroy military bases in Cambodia.
Founded in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM)
focused on militant action.
In 1972, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
froze the arsenals of some nuclear missiles at their current levels.
Throughout the late 1960s,
opposition in the United States to the Vietnam War intensified.
After the 1972 election, President Richard Nixon, to prompt a peace settlement with North Vietnam,
ordered an increase in the aerial bombing of North Vietnam.
In April 1970, the antiwar movement was recharged by
the U.S. invasion of Cambodia
The "Saturday night massacre" refers to an event that included
the resignation of two key Nixon administration officials.
The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose called for
the right of Indians to choose their own way of life.
In 1974, Richard Nixon left the presidency
through resignation.
As part of his domestic agenda, President Richard Nixon
tried to end the forced busing of students to desegregate schools.
The Supreme Court in the case United States v. Richard M. Nixon (1974) ruled that Nixon must
turn over evidence to the special prosecutor.
In Bakke v. Board of Regents of California (1978), the Supreme Court
upheld the principle of affirmative action, with restrictions.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
was amended for the benefit of women.
The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (1973)
was based on a new legal interpretation of privacy rights.
After President Richard Nixon had appointed four new justices, the Supreme Court
actually increased its commitment to social reform.
Early during the feminist movement, the National Organization of Women focused its efforts on
addressing the needs of women in the workplace.
"Earth Day" in 1970 was
an example of the popularization of environmentalism.
The key evidence in the determination of President Richard Nixon's guilt or innocence in the Watergate scandal was
audio tape recordings made of most conversations in the Oval Office.
In 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned because
evidence surfaced that he had accepted bribes.
Betty Friedan's 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique,
gave a voice to a reemerging women's rights movement.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon believed an American withdrawal from Vietnam would
harm America's honor and "credibility."
The intent of President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy was to
have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon responded to mounting economic problems by
imposing a freeze on all wages and prices.
The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Furman v. Georgia (1972)
overturned existing capital punishment statutes.
Students for a Democratic Society was formed
primarily by college students from prestigious universities.
In Miranda v. Arizona (1966), the Supreme Court
required authorities to inform a criminal suspect of his or her legal rights.
The so-called Pentagon Papers
revealed that the government had tried to cover up American involvement in the My Lai massacre.
In 1972, diplomat Henry Kissinger announced that "peace is at hand"
right before the American presidential election.
"Stagflation" refers to
rising prices and economic stagnation.
In Engel v. Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court
ruled prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.
In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court
ruled that all felony defendants were entitled to a lawyer, regardless of their ability to pay.
In the 1960s, the youth counterculture
was openly scornful of the values and conventions of American middle-class society.
In the 1960s, the radical group known as "Weathermen"
were involved in college bombings that claimed several lives.
President Richard Nixon's appointments to the Supreme Court
were twice rejected by the Senate.
