Deck 14: 1969-1975: The Imperial Presidency and Watergate

Question 1

Nixon won the 1969 presidential election by a landslide.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Nixon won the 1972 presidential election by a landslide.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

"Vietnamization" referred to the process of preparing the South Vietnamese to fight the North Vietnamese on their own.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Nixon succeeded in reducing U.S. commitment in Vietnam.

Question 5

Nixon adopted many liberal economic policies.

Question 6

School desegregation was the most highly charged issue in the early 1970s.

Question 7

The Women's Rights movement made great gains in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Question 8

The Watergate scandal failed to halt the expansion of presidential power.

Question 9

Nixon was pardoned for any and all crimes he committed or may have committed as president.

Question 10

Nixon resigned the office of presidency before he could be impeached.

Question 11

Was America justified in prosecuting the Vietnam War?

Question 12

Compare and contrast Nixon's foreign policy with that of the Kennedy-Johnson years.

Question 13

How did Watergate affect U.S. culture and society?

Question 14

Who served as Nixon's national security adviser?

A) Henry Kissinger
B) Spiro Agnew
C) George McGovern
D) All of the above

Question 15

Which nation was not one of the "five economic superpowers"?

A) China
B) Japan
C) Britain
D) Russia

Question 16

The Nixon Doctrine called for the limitation of what kind of support for U.S. allies in Asia?

A) Economic
B) Military
C) Industrial
D) All of the above

Question 17

National Guard forces shot to death four students at what U.S. university?

A) Columbia
B) Clark University
C) Ohio State
D) Kent State

Question 18

Sputnik was launched in what year?

A) 1957
B) 1959
C) 1960
D) 1963

Question 19

In the early 1970s, the world's nuclear stockpile amounted to how many tons of TNT per human being on the planet?

A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 15

Question 20

Who was Nixon's first vice president?

A) Henry Kissinger
B) Spiro Agnew
C) Nelson Rockefeller
D) Gerald Ford

Question 21

Nixon appointed which of the following Supreme Court Justices?

A) G. Harrold Carswell
B) William Rehnquist
C) Clement Haynsworth
D) All of the above

Question 22

Which of the following U.S. Supreme Court decisions related to obscenity?

A) Furman v. Georgia
B) Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
C) Welsh v. United States
D) Miller v. California

Question 23

The Watergate scandal broke in what year?

A) 1971
B) 1972
C) 1973
D) 1974

Question 24

Which of the following women served as a U.S. senator from New York?

A) Betty Freidan
B) Gloria Steinem
C) Bella Abzug
D) All of the above

Question 25

Who ran against Nixon in the 1972 presidential campaign?

A) Spiro Agnew
B) George McGovern
C) Robert Kennedy
D) Gerald Ford

Question 26

Who became Nixon's vice president in 1973?

A) Spiro Agnew
B) George McGovern
C) Robert Kennedy
D) Gerald Ford

Question 27

Who served as Gerald Ford's vice president?

A) Otis Pike
B) Spiro Agnew
C) Nelson Rockefeller
D) Jimmy Carter

Question 28

The Six-Day War was prosecuted by what nation?

A) Russia
B) The United States
C) Israel
D) Chile

Question 29

The last U.S. officials fled Saigon in what year?

A) 1973
B) 1974
C) 1975
D) 1976

Question 30

American football grew out of what English sport?

A) Soccer
B) Cricket
C) Rugby
D) None of the above

Question 31

Which of the following U.S. presidents was an avid football fan?

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Richard Nixon
D) Gerald Ford

Question 32

J. Edgar Hoover headed what governmental department?

A) FBI
B) CIA
C) Department of Justice
D) Department of Defense

Question 33

Talk About:
-American Indian Movement (AIM)

Question 34

Talk About:
-Apollo program

Question 35

Talk About:
-busing

Question 36

Talk About:
-Cambodia

Question 37

Talk About:
-Equal Rights Amendment

Question 38

Talk About:
-Gerald Ford

Question 39

Talk About:
-Gloria Steinem

Question 40

Talk About:
-Henry Kissinger

Question 41

Talk About:
-Kent State University

Question 42

Talk About:
-Nixon Doctrine

Question 43

Talk About:
-"open society"

Question 44

Talk About:
-Operation CHAOS

Question 45

Talk About:
-Pentagon Papers

Question 46

Talk About:
-Roe v. Wade

Question 47

Talk About:
-Salvador Allende

Question 48

Talk About:
-Six-Day War

Question 49

Talk About:
-Sputnik

Question 50

Talk About:
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)

Question 51

Talk About:
-Vietnamization

Question 52

Talk About:
-War Powers Act

Question 53

Talk About:
-Watergate

Question 54

Talk About:
-Wounded Knee (1973)

Question 55

Taking into account both his domestic and foreign policies, as well as his personal leadership style, was Nixon a conservative or a liberal president? Explain.

Question 56

Who is more patriotic, a soldier who volunteers to fight in Vietnam without knowing anything about the meaning or objectives of the war, or an informed protester who burns his draft card?