HIS 112- Ch 30

On October 26, 1972, only a week before the U.S. presidential election, Kissinger announced:

"Peace is at hand"

All of the following were consequences of the Vietnam War EXCEPT:

Americans were more determined than ever to spread democracy

In April 1970, Nixon extended the war when he sent troops into:

Cambodia

Within a year after taking control of the South, the Vietnamese Communists were at war with the:

Cambodian Communists

Nixon's new relationship with China was made possible by:

China's growing fear of the Soviet Union

As the 1972 election approached, the biggest threat to Nixon's reelection seemed to be:

George Wallace's potential to drain away conservative votes from the Republicans

Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman often referred to themselves as:

Groucho Marxists

At the Altamont concert in 1969:

Hells Angels killed a man in front of the stage

The figure who most influenced Nixon's foreign policy was:

Henry Kissinger

The term Hispanic referred to:

growing political assertiveness among Mexican Americans

By 2015, Hispanics:

had become the country's largest minority

The burglars arrested at the Watergate apartment complex:

had connections to the CIA and the Nixon campaign

In regard to Vietnam policy, Nixon:

insisted that he would pursue "peace with honor"

Young men were able to avoid service in Vietnam by all of the following methods EXCEPT:

joining VISTA or the Peace Corps

A sad legacy of Watergate was:

lasting damage to the image of the presidency

The Vietnam settlement signed on January 27, 1973:

left 150,000 Communist troops in South Vietnam

By the end of 1970, the unemployment rate in the United States:

nearly doubled

Nixon's Watergate-related resignation came with the revelation that he had:

ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in

Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he:

pardoned Nixon

In their role at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Yippies could best be described as:

pranksters

The Pentagon Papers:

revealed that the Johnson administration had deceived the public in regard to war policy

The "silent majority":

supported politicians like Richard Nixon

Indian activists ultimately discovered that their most effective tactic for bringing about change was:

taking legal action to force the government to adhere to old treaties

One major impetus behind the rise of a Native American rights movement was the:

terrible levels of poverty that persisted in the Indian population

By 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:

the example of the civil rights movement

In its earliest years, the gay rights movement especially emphasized:

the importance of gays "coming out"

Shocking events at Kent State University involved:

the killing of four students by the National Guard

James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. represented:

the new moderate wing of the Democratic party

To punish the United States for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):

threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States

During his presidency, Gerald Ford achieved a record for:

vetoes

Senator George McGovern of South Dakota:

was the democratic nominee for president in 1972

In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley:

was the site of a free-speech movement (FSM)

The youths of the counterculture:

were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s

Jimmy Carter's victory in the 1976 election was aided by all of the following EXCEPT:

a huge voter turnout

The Nixon Doctrine implied a foreign policy that was shaped more by:

a need to be selective in its commitments abroad

Economists coined the term stagflation in the early 1970s to describe:

a simultaneously stagnant economy with inflationary prices

At Columbia University in 1968:

a student strike shut down the campus

The major motivation behind the Saturday Night Massacre was Nixon's desire to:

avoid handing over the key White House tapes

The hippie movement ultimately:

began to wane as counterculture had become counterproductive

In the early 1970s, angry protests began to erupt in cities outside the South over:

busing

Nixon's southern strategy involved winning southern support by:

capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:

challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy"

The most important factor behind the sexual revolution of the 1960s was the:

development of birth-control pills

The energy crisis of the early 1970s increased support for:

environmentalism

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique:

explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women

All of the following are true of Cesar Chavez EXCEPT that he:

failed to secure collective bargaining rights for farm workers

The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment

Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" involved:

gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam

Nixon's trip to the Soviet Union resulted in:

U.S. wheat sales to the Soviets

Essential to breaking the Watergate case was the testimony before the Ervin committee of White House legal counsel:

John Dean