Chapter 30 Dirk US History
As part of his domestic agenda, President Richard Nixon
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As a result of the Vietnam War,
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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.
Both John Sirica and John Dean were part of the White House cover-up of the Watergate scandal.
False
The lesson of the Yom Kippur War was that the United States could continue to expect cheap, easy access to raw materials from its "client states."
False
In the 1960s, the aspect of popular culture most strongly embraced by the counterculture was
Music
In 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned because
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Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement by focusing on problems concerning
Pesticides
The beginning of the gay liberation movement was marked by a violent disturbance known as the "________."
Stonewall Riots
Between 1960 and 1970, the Latino population of the United States
Tripled
The so-called Pentagon Papers revealed the government had misled the public in explaining its motives for American involvement in Vietnam.
True
In 1973, American Indian activists occupied the old Indian battle site of
Wounded Knee
The 1973 ________ War demonstrated American dependence on Arab oil.
Yam Kippur War
President Richard Nixon believed U.S. foreign policy should work toward
a balance of power among several major nations.
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.
President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972
came after Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations.
In 1972, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
froze the arsenals of some nuclear missiles at their current levels.
Betty Friedan's 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique,
gave a voice to a reemerging women's rights movement.
In 1972, the Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the
offices of the Democratic National Committee.
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 the government had misled the public regarding the progress of the war
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.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
was amended for the benefit of women.
The Environmental Protection Agency was created in ________ when ________ signed the National Environmental Protection Act into law.
1970; Richard Nixon
The Vietnam War caused the deaths of 1.2 million Vietnamese soldiers, countless additional civilians, and more than ________ Americans.
57,000
In 1972, two Washington Post reporters uncovered evidence linking the Watergate break-in to
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the agenda of the political left included
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By the early twenty-first century, gay men and lesbians in the United States
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In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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In 1969, four months after the great music festival at Woodstock, a rock concert at ________ resulted in the deaths of four people, including one from injuries sustained from security guards.
Altamont
President Nixon expanded the Vietnam War, and also reinvigorated the American antiwar movement, by moving the fighting into neighboring _______.
Cambodia and Laos
In 1971 the so-called Pentagon Papers were leaked to the press by _______.
Daniel Ellsberg
One of the early and major organizations of the New Left was the Students for a _______.
Democratic Society
Aldo Leopold's sensational 1962 book, Silent Spring, helped popularize the new science of ecology.
False
By the early 1970s, a significant change was visible in the tone and direction of the women's movement. New books by younger feminists expressed a milder critique of American society than Friedan had offered.
False
Conservative Americans, by and large, supported the decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.
False
The House Judiciary Committee was debating whether or not to recommend articles of impeachment when President Nixon announced his resignation from office.
False
The founders of Students for a Democratic Society could accurately be described as hippies.
False
The political New Left emerged out of opposition to the military draft in the 1960s.
False
The release of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere directly affects the earth's capacity to replenish its oxygen supply.
False
Throughout the Vietnam War, deferments from the military draft were increasingly easy to obtain for those in college.
False
When it was founded, the National Organization of Women was concerned primarily with the rights of women in marriage and in the home.
False
When the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion became legal for the first time in American history.
False
________ was the Watergate burglar who agreed to cooperate with the grand jury and Senate investigating committee looking into the Watergate break-in.
James W. McCord
In 1973, allegations of misconduct by Richard Nixon were made by presidential advisor
John Dean
Led by Lieutenant William Calley, American soldiers massacred more than 300 South Vietnamese civilians near the village of _______.
My Lai
In 1974, Richard Nixon left the presidency after he
Resigned
In the 1972 presidential election,
Richard Nixon won over 60 percent of the popular vote.
Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, was named to the court by
Ronald Reagan
The first female Supreme Court justice was _______.
Sandra O'Connor
What became known as the " _________ massacre" saw President Richard Nixon order the firing of Archibald Cox.
Saturday Night
An important and controversial aspect of the counterculture was its more permissive view of sex and drugs.
True
By the mid-1970s, affirmative-action guidelines included women, and the vast majority of women with college degrees were in the workforce.
True
During the 1970s, Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
True
During the Nixon administration, relations with communist China were greatly improved.
True
In the early 1970s, the United States suffered its first fuel shortage since World War II.
True
Incomes in the United States are far more unequal today than they were a generation or more ago.
True
Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 by a much greater margin than he had received in 1968.
True
Shortly after the last Americans had left South Vietnam, Cambodia came under the control of a brutal and repressive government.
True
Spiro Agnew resigned from the vice presidency before Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency.
True
The Free Speech Movement was born on a college campus.
True
The United Farm Workers union was founded and first led by César Chávez.
True
The Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy, the National Wildlife Federation, and the National Parks and Conservation Association all predated the rise of modern ecological science.
True
The gay rights movement had been gaining strength since at least the 1950s.
True
The political demise of Richard Nixon was largely a result of his own personality and leadership style.
True
The tapes of conversations in the Oval Office contained incontrovertible evidence that President Nixon was involved in the Watergate cover-up.
True
The tragedies of Kent State and Jackson State occurred during protests over the American expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by the Nixon administration.
True
There was never any conclusive evidence that President Nixon had planned or approved the Watergate burglary.
True
Weeks after Henry Kissinger announced that "peace is at hand" in the Vietnam War, President Nixon ordered the heaviest air raids on North Vietnam of the entire war.
True
What came to be called the Watergate scandal began when five men broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
True
In the 1960s, the ________ was founded and led by César Chávez.
United Farm Workers
In the early 1960s, the Free Speech Movement came into being at the ________ to help secure the political rights of students.
University of California Berkley
When Earl Warren retired, President Nixon appointed ________ to replace him on the Supreme Court.
Warren Burger
After President Richard Nixon had appointed four new justices, the Supreme Court
actually increased its commitment to social reform.
In the mid-1960s, the National Organization of Women focused its efforts on
addressing the needs of women in the workplace.
According to policies that came to be called the Nixon Doctrine, the United States would
assist in the development of friendly nations.
By 1973, there was mounting evidence that President Richard Nixon had
been part of the cover-up of the break-in.
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.
The purpose of the 1969 Woodstock music festival was to
express the ideals of the counterculture philosophy.
Founded in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM)
focused on militant action.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon believed an American withdrawal from Vietnam would
harm his own credibility of and that of the nation.
The intent of President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy was to
have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.
The 1969 "Stonewall Riot" is associated with the civil rights movement for
homosexuals
In 1971, President Richard Nixon responded to mounting economic problems by
imposing a freeze on all wages and prices.
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.
The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Furman v. Georgia (1972)
overturned existing capital punishment statutes.
In 1972, diplomat Henry Kissinger announced that "peace is at hand"
right before the American presidential election.
"Stagflation" refers to
rising prices and a weak economy
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 1970s, the Nixon administration believed the world's most volatile region to be
the so called Third World
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.
The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade (1973)
was one of the most controversial decisions in modern court history.
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 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (1973)
was based on a new legal interpretation of privacy rights
