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