Deck 12: The 1970s

Question 1

Which U.S. newspaper's reporters chronicled the numerous connections between the Watergate break-in and Nixon's most trusted advisers?

A) The New York Times
B) The Philadelphia Inquirer
C) The Wall Street Journal
D) The Washington Post
E) The Washington Examiner

Answer 1

The Washington Post

Question 2

The 38th president who took office after Nixon.

A) Spiro Agnew
B) George McGovern
C) Gerald Ford
D) Lyndon Johnson
E) Jimmy Carter

Answer 2

Gerald Ford

Question 3

"Stagflation" is a term used to describe __________.

A) high prices with economic stagnation.
B) economic stagnation with high inflation
C) high prices with high inflation
D) economic stagnation with declining inflation
E) high prices with declining inflation

Answer 3

economic stagnation with high inflation

Question 4

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a(n) _______

A) federal agency.
B) comprised of state agencies acting alone.
C) comprised of state agencies acting together.
D) independent agency.
E) combination of state and independent agencies acting together.

Question 5

A classified report on the U.S. military's actions in Vietnam between 1945 and 1967 that demonstrated that the military and Johnson administration had sought to mislead the American people regarding the success of their actions in Vietnam.

A) Watergate Papers
B) Green Papers
C) Marshall Papers
D) Pentagon Papers
E) Dean Papers

Question 6

The college campus where the tragic death of four students occurred on May 4, 1970 after an anti-Vietnam protest escalated into violence.

A) Kent State
B) Florida State
C) Ball State
D) Iowa State
E) Keene State

Question 7

Which two countries invaded Israel during the Yom Kippur War?

A) Jordan and Syria
B) Egypt and Jordan
C) Syria and Egypt
D) Lebanon and Egypt
E) Syria and Lebanon

Question 8

A nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that overheated in 1979 and nearly led to a complete nuclear meltdown is known as ________

A) Browns Ferry
B) Nine Mile Point
C) Crystal River
D) Three Mile Island
E) Davis Besse

Question 9

The dictator who ruled Chile after leading a coup against the democratically-elected socialist leader of Chile in 1973.

A) Carlos del Campo
B) Jorge Alessandri
C) Eduardo Montalva
D) Augusto Pinochet
E) Salvador Allende

Question 10

The War Powers Act approved over Nixon's veto

A) limited use of troops to 60 days unless Congress had declared war.
B) required the president to notify Congress of any use of military overseas within 48 hours.
C) required the president to gain approval from Congress before ordering any use of nuclear weapons.
D) a and b
E) b and c

Question 11

The process whereby middle and upper-class residents move into formerly working-class neighborhoods is known as _________.

A) amelioration
B) rehabilitation
C) remediation
D) gentrification
E) reactivation

Question 12

The Khmer Rouge were

A) followers of the Communist Party in North Vietnam.
B) followers of the Communist Party in South Vietnam.
C) followers of the Communist Party in Laos.
D) followers of the Communist Party in Cambodia.
E) followers of the Communist Party in Thailand.

Question 13

Nixon responded to stagflation by ________ .

A) cutting interest rates.
B) establishing the Federal Reserve Board.
C) establishing the Federal Banking System
D) abandoning the gold standard
E) all of the above

Question 14

Nixon's national security advisor and secretary of state best remembered as an advocate of détente.

A) Cyrus Vance
B) Warren Christopher
C) Alexander Haig
D) Henry Kissinger
E) Dean Rusk

Question 15

The first African-American woman elected to Congress who later became the first viable African-American presidential candidate.

A) Bessie Coleman
B) Angela Davis
C) Marian Wright Edelman
D) Shirley Chisholm
E) Ida B. Wells Barnett

Question 16

Nixon's illegal actions resulted in Nixon

A) being impeached.
B) being censored.
C) resigning.
D) b and c
E) a and c

Question 17

The leader of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1992 who sough to reduce tensions with the West he recognized were hurting his nation economically.

A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Yuri Andropov
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
E) Alexei Kosygin

Question 18

Those who supported liberal causes during the 1960s and 1970s, such as civil rights for women and minorities and the expansion of the welfare state, were known as the _______.

A) Left
B) New left
C) Nouveau left
D) Radical left
E) None of the above

Question 19

Nixon's diplomatic strategy of détente was aimed primarily at what two countries?

A) China and North Korea
B) Africa and China
C) Japan and North Korea
D) China and Russia
E) Russia and Japan

Question 20

The "White House Plumbers," former CIA and FBI agents

A) illegally followed and photographed those Nixon did not trust.
B) broke into the offices of political rivals.
C) illegally tapped the phones of those Nixon did not trust.
D) a and b
E) b and c

Question 21

Ford attempted to reverse stagflation by:

A) cutting interest rates
B) promoting the idea that consumers save more.
C) promoting the idea that consumers spend less.
D) reducing federal spending.
E) all of the above

Question 22

The Indian Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act of 1975

A) guaranteed that tribes would be able to administer their own educational programs.
B) guaranteed that tribes would determine how to spend federal aid
C) reversed previous government policies and strategies aimed at terminating recognition of Native American tribes
D) gave tribes authority to determine how natural resources on tribal lands would be utilized.
E) all of the above

Question 23

By the mid-1970s, over a million African Americans were enrolled in universities. This represented a ______ increase from two decades earlier.

A) 25 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 100 percent
D) 250 percent
E) 500 percent

Question 24

The Equal Rights Amendment_______.

A) was ratified by the states only.
B) was ratified by some states and the federal government.
C) was ratified only by the federal government.
D) was ratified by some states but not the federal government
E) was not ratified by states or the federal government.

Question 25

Accounting for only 10 percent of the nation's population, Mexican-American soldiers accounted for _________ of U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam.

A) five percent
B) ten percent
C) fifteen percent
D) twenty percent
E) twenty-five percent

Question 26

The Stonewall Rebellion, a series of physical protests against police attempting to arrest homosexuals, occurred in _______.

A) San Francisco
B) Los Angeles
C) Philadelphia
D) New York City
E) Boston

Question 27

The common name for a 1972 amendment that prohibits the denial of participation in or benefits of any educational program receiving federal funds.

A) Title V
B) Title VI
C) Title VII
D) Title VIII
E) Title IX

Question 28

What 1974 Supreme Court decision forbade schools from busing students across school district lines to achieve racial balance unless it could be proven that those lines were intentionally drawn to segregate schools.

A) Brown v. Board
B) Milliken v. Bradley
C) Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
D) University of California v. Bakke
E) Roe v. Wade

Question 29

The Supreme Court's ruling in ________ legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.

A) Roe v. Wade
B) Miranda v. Arizona
C) Marbury v. Madison
D) Plessy v. Ferguson
E) Loving v. Virginia