History Test 29
After the resignation of Pres. Nixon and Americans were fired up to vote resulting in extremely high voter turnout...
false
As President, Nixon repudated The welfare state entirely rolling back the policies of Johnson's great society
false
As a result of the Watergate affair Richard Nixon became the first us president to face impeachment
false
As a result of the increase in criticism for his failure to anticipate the energy crisis is brought on by the Amrap Israel war of 1973...
false
Between 1950 and 1970 all the women increase their presents in the labor force men still doing the labor force in substantially greater numbers
false
Democrat fueled publication of the Watergate break-in provided a much-needed boost...
false
Partially as a result of the emergence of the religious right the number of married women working outside the home declined to 25%
false
The Washington Post reporters who broke the story on the connection of the White House to the Watergate break-in were Bob WoodwardCarl Bernstein and Deep Throat
false
fords pardoning of former president richard nixon of any crimes he may have committed in office was popular...
false
What is meant by the statement that the Ford administration coincided with the close of an era
All of the Above
Which of the following was not a notable author during the 1960s and 1970s
Billy Pilgrim
As a reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 Pres. Carter
Body call the invasion a serious threat to peace and commodity and money donations in called on the other European nations to condemn the Soviet Union
In the spring of 1969 the New York Times revealed that Nixon administration had secretly taken what action....
Bombed Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia
Ronald Reagan's choice of George W. Bush as his vice presidential running mate in 1980...
Bush was pro-choice on abortion and had supported the equal rights amendment
By the 1970s
Christian churches that emphasize personal salvation and individual for film it rather than social activism group
Although Pres. Jimmy Carter was unable to establish a Department of education during his first year in office....
Energy
Introduced a new voice in American literature with a frightening account of female sexuality Was an example of the most striking black literary talon in the second half of the 20th Century Was a work of political satire that focused on the presidency of Richard Nixon Was an account of the author's participation in an antiwar demonstration at the Pentagon Used a combination of science fiction and historical fiction to discuss the dresden bombing during World War II Which told the story of a black family from its beginnings in Africa through slavery in America and finally into freedom was made into a groundbreaking mini series which made television history in terms of viewership
Erica Jong's fear of flying Tori Morrison's blue eye Philip Roths our gang Norman Mailer's Army in the night Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse five Alex Haley's roots
What man served as the director of political intelligence for the Nixon committee to Re- elect the president
G Gordon Liddy
who's presidential campaign in 1972 featured a platform that promised a quick end to the Vietnam War
George McGovern
Which president in the second half of the 20th Century was note worthy for his reliance on his wife as a political confide...
Jimmy Carter
In the presidential election of 1980 Carter faced not only the republican candidate Ronald Reagan but also the third party candidate
John Anderson
The primary political paradox of the period between 1950 and 1960 was that
Southerners attended to vote Republican in the presidential election but Democratic and congressional and state elections
The rise in prices accompanied by high unemployment in the 1970s was an economic situation referred to as
Stagflation
Which of the following was the smoking gun in the abstraction of justice case against President nixon
The revelation that Nixon had the CIA intervene in an FBI investigation into the source of funding for the Watergate burglary
After experiencing significant decline after the emergence of television by the 1970s movies were an important emotional and intellectual experience...
True
The democratic coalition of the 1970s included the representation of virtually every...
True
Under Jimmy Carter Cold War tensions increased
True
Which group of laborers had traditionally Resisted joining unions
White-collar
In response to the energy crisis in the late 1970s Carter advocated a sharp increase...
False
After vice president Sprio Agnew Resigned Nixon shows Gerald Ford as his new vice president because
He thought the Congress Shirley would not want to replace them with such an unknown political commodity as ford
Which of the following factors did not contribute to continued economic growth in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Immigration from Asia
Which of the following did not contribute to the economic malaise of the 1970s
Increased taxes
Which of the following was the greatest casualty of the Watergate scandal
Public confidence in the political system
In the elections of 1980
Reagan defeated the incumbent Jimmy Carter by surprise landslide
What genre of movie and emerged as especially popular and financially successful during the 1970s
Science fiction
Gerald Ford did all of the following except
Signed a 5.3 billion bill to create jobs and reduce Unemployment
Jimmy Carter did all of the following as president except
Successfully fight against rising inflation
Why was there growing inflation during the Nixon administration
The Vietnam War had increased the federal deficit
In the summer of 1971 the Nixon White House set up an extra legal unit known informally as...
The plumbers
worrisome as the rise of inflation was for president has sharpest domestic crisis came in 1979 when a shortage of foreign oil..
True
The farm revolution of the second half of the 20th Century
Was fueled by technology including new seeds Including new seeds, equipment, and chemicals
By 1975 how many former members of the White House staff we're cabinet had been inited convicted...
33
What economic sector of the US did not share equally in the prosperity of the 60s and early 1970s
Agriculture
Jimmy Carter supported the Canal treaty because he
All of the above
Plans to discredit Nixon's democratic opposition in the 1970s included
All of the above
The Iranian hostage crisis
All of the above
The salt treaties involved
All of the above
Which of the following was not involved in the founding of Apple computers in the Silicon Valley in 1977
Bill Gates
One of Jimmy Carter's greatest achievements in foreign policy was the signing of the...
Camp David Accord's
The Pentagon papers revealed to the American public
Details of American involvement in Vietnam during Nixon's presidency that were outside of that which congress has been fully and faithfully informed
Nixon's program to improve relations with the Soviet Union was known as
detente
After his reelection in 1972 Nixon demanded the resignation of all non-career officials because he feared they were disloyal to the nation
false
In the presidential election of 1972, Richard Nixon
only A and B
richard nixon was indicted by the house of rep. for all of the following except
ordering the secret bombing of cambodia
By the 1970s all indications from the agricultural sector indicated that to survive as a Farmer....
true
By the 19th 70s the US economy deferred from both debt and inflation
true
Despite Nixon's landslide election in 1972 most Americans...
true
in 1971, two fifths of the occupied houses and apartments in the us had been built during the 1950s and 1960s
true