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The __- Amendment _ the voting age to __

26th, lowered, 18

President Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" of the war in Vietnam called for

A gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese

American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing

Alcatraz island and Wounded Knee, South Dakota

As a result of US support for Israel in 1973 when it was attacked by Egypt and Syria

Arab nations placed an embargo on oil to America

Arrange the following events in chronological order: A) Arab oil embargo, B) Iranian hostage crisis, C) fall of Saigon, D) invasion of Afghanistan

Arab oil embargo, fall of Saigon, Iranian hostage crisis, invasion of Afghanistan

President Jimmy Carter's most spectacular foreign policy achievement was the

Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt

President Nixon's chief foreign-policy adviser was

Henry Kissinger

The high inflation rate of the 1970s stemmed primarily from

LBJs refusal to raise taxes for spending on social welfare programs and the Vietnam war

President Carter believed that the fundamental problem of the American economy in the late 1970s was

US dependence on foreign oil

Vice President SPiro Agnew was forced to resign in 1973 after being accused of

accepting bribes

THe Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because

an antifeminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it

George McGovern, the Democratic party's presidential nominee in 1972, apealed most strongly to the

antiwar movement

The Watergate scandals caused by the actions of Richard Nixon's staff in the 1972 presidential campaign involved all of the following EXCEPT

ballot stuffing

George McGovern, the Democratics nominee for the presidency in 1972, alienated the traditional working class backbone of the Democratic party

by appealing to racial minorities, feminists, and youth

The decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren reflected its

deep concern for the individual

Perhaps Nixon most valuable asset as he began his presidency in 1969 was his

expertise in foreign affairs

THe Pentagon Papers, published in 1971

exposed the deception that had led the US into the Vietnam War

Nixon tried to resist to giving his taped conversations to the special prosecutor and the Congress by claiming that

he had executive privilege (confidentiality)

During the Senate Watergate hearings, oneof the most damaging revelations for Richard Nixon was that

his conversations in person and on the telephone had been recorded on tape

James Earl (Jimmy) Carter enjoyed considerable popularity when he won the presidency because

his emphasis on honesty contrasted with the corruptions of Watergate

The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that the US would

honor its existing defense commitment, but that in the future its allies would have to fight their own wars without large numbers of American troops

The guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy was

human rights

To control creeping inflation in the early 1970s, President Nixon

imposed a ninety day wage and price freeze

Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy included all of the following EXCEPT

increased American troop commitments

The SALT II Treaty between the Soviet Union and the US died in the Senate when the Soveits

invaded Afghanistan

The most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency was

pardoning Nixon for any known or unknown crimes he had committed during the Nixon presidency

The Helsinki accords, signed by Gerald Ford and leaders of thirty-four nations

pledge signatories to guarantee certain basic human rights

Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 to

prohibit sex discrimination in any federally funded education program or activity

The Supreme Court in the Bakke case held that

racial quotas were unconstitutional but race could be taken into account as one factor in college admissions

The major goal successfully pursued by Indian civil rights activitists in the 1970s was

recogniton of the semi-sovereign status of the various Indian tribes under American law

The effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Milliken vs Bradley tha tintegration did not have to take place across school district lines was to

reinforce the division between poorer, minority inner city schools and nearly all white suburbs

Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan

required construction trade unions to establish timetables and goals for hiring black apprentices

The 1973 War Powers Act

required the president to report to Congress any commitment American troops

When it came to welfare programs, Richard Nixon

supported significant expansionin many areas

The difference between Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action programs and those of Richard Nixon was

that Johnson intended to help indiviudals, but Nixon conferred privileges on groups

As a result of Richard Nixon's aerial bombing of neutral Cambodia in 1973

the Cambodian economy was ruined and its politics revolutionized

All of the following are legacies of Richard Nixon's presidency EXCEPT

the Food Stamp program

In an effort to counter OPEC, the US took the lead in forming

the International Energy Agency

Boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games was one measure taken by President Carter in response to

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

As part of the cease fire agreement in Vietnam in 1973

the US was to withdraw all of its troops from Vietnam

By the early 1970s, the post-WWII economic boom had crested as a result of all of the following except

the economic recovery of Japan and Germany

The one major social movement born in the 1960s that regained and gathered momentum in the 1970s and after was

the feminist movement

one reaseon for the decline of American workers' productivity during the 1970s was

the general shift in the economy from manufacturing to services or could be a drastic decline in workers productivity

The AMerican armed forces in Vietnam were composed largely of

the least privileged youn Americans

In Griswold vs Connecticut, the Supreme Court upheld a married couple's right to use contraceptives based on

the right to privacy

The people of the US had provided just about everything for South Vietnam EXCEPT

the will to win the war

The term "second wave feminism" refers to

those like Betty Friedan who revived feminism in the 1960s and 1970s as a broad movement for women't rights and opportunities

A primary goal of both the first and second wave of Vietnamese refugees was

to keep their large extended families together

Richard Nixon's policy of detente

ushered in an ear of relaxed tensions between the US and the two leading communist powers, China and Soviet Union

The Supreme Court case of Roe v Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortioni were unconstitutional because they

violated a woman's constitutional right to privacy in her own person

The first wave of Vietnamese refugees who came to the US in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War

were first forced into "assimilation cams" scattered across the country

Moderate and radical feminists differed over all the following issues EXCEPT

women's right to choose abortion

The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), passed by Congress in 1972 and eventually ratified by 35 states, stated the following:

"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or any state on the basis of sex."