Deck 13: Bringing Us Together

Question 1

The Sun Belt states offered a natural home for political and cultural conservatism because they were

A) Centers of evangelical Protestantism
B) Home to traditional racial attitudes
C) Generally suspicious of Northeast elitism
D) All of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Civil rights played a central role in Nixon's Southern strategy, and on the important subject of school desegregation he

A) Pushed the Supreme Court to reverse Brown v. Board of Education
B) Encouraged southern governors to make gradual steps toward real integration
C) Supported "freedom of choice" plans that perpetuated segregation
D) Promised federal aid in forcing southern school districts to desegregate

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In addition to delaying school desegregation, the other key part of Nixon's Southern Strategy was

A) Appointing conservative Southern judges to the Supreme Court
B) Pressuring Congress to gut the Civil Rights Act
C) Reducing social welfare programs
D) Introducing environmental controls

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Vice-president Spiro Agnew was known as Nixon's hatchet man, primarily attacking

A) Southern segregationists
B) The Northeastern liberal establishment
C) California hippies
D) All of the above

Question 5

Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War consisted of

A) Turning the war over to the United Nations
B) Negotiations, with China as mediator
C) Threatening to use atomic weapons
D) Complete and immediate withdrawal

Question 6

The Nixon Doctrine consisted of

A) Turning the Vietnam War over to South Vietnamese troops, supported by American supplies and air power
B) An increased commitment of American troops to ensure a quick victory
C) Creating an international coalition to prop up the South Vietnamese state
D) Complete and immediate withdrawal from Vietnam

Question 7

Henry Kissinger earned his appointment as Nixon's National Security Advisor by

A) His loyal service to a series of Republican presidents
B) Undercutting the Johnson administration's efforts to achieve a bombing halt in Vietnam by tipping off Nixon's campaign
C) Working to achieve peace in Vietnam and laying the groundwork for Nixon to be the president to successfully end the war
D) His similarity to Nixon in background and education

Question 8

Nixon and Kissinger worked to keep the State and Defense departments in the dark about foreign policy activities

A) In order to allow them to escalate the war in Vietnam
B) So that they could have more freedom to negotiate diplomatic relations with China
C) Because the administration was against Kissinger's policy of detente in the Cold War
D) Because they feared communist spies within government bureaucracy

Question 9

The _______ was Nixon's first attempt to bring North Vietnam to its knees

A) Expansion of American ground forces by half a million men
B) Expansion of bombing raids over North Vietnam
C) Secret bombing of Cambodia
D) Open threat of nuclear war

Question 10

A CIA-led coup attempt against Salvador Allende, the Marxist president of Chile, was approved by

A) Nixon and Kissinger
B) The State Department
C) Congress
D) All of the above

Question 11

In an attempt to both win the Vietnam War and preserve a pro-American government in South Vietnam, while still reducing numbers of American troops, Nixon decided to

A) Increase bombing on North Vietnam
B) Seek diplomatic relations with China
C) Involve other Southeast Asian nations
D) Invade neutral Cambodia

Question 12

A US-planned South Vietnamese attack on Laos failed because

A) The Laotian army fought alongside the North Vietnamese
B) The South Vietnamese army was filled with Vietcong agents
C) The US failed to offer sufficient air support
D) The US gave too much control over the operation to the South Vietnamese leadership

Question 13

Critical concessions offered by Kissinger that finally led to a peace agreement with North Vietnam included

A) North Vietnam would be allowed to keep troops in the South
B) The Vietcong would play a role in a final political settlement
C) Recognition of Vietcong control over the countryside
D) All of the above

Question 14

-This image of Nixon in China stunned the world because

A) The United States had not diplomatically recognized China since the communist victory in the civil war in 1949
B) Presidents rarely traveled abroad
C) It was the first visit of a sitting president to a communist country
D) Nixon's rhetoric had increased enmity with China throughout his presidency

Question 15

During the Nixon administration, the antiwar movement increasingly focused on

A) Nonviolent protest marches
B) Pushing legislative action
C) Draft resistance
D) Violent uprisings

Question 16

The foundation of the New Left began to crumble in the 1970s, because of

A) Factionalism within the movement
B) Lack of positive response from those in power
C) The rise of the counterculture
D) All of the above

Question 17

Government operations like the CIA's Operation Chaos and the FBI's COINTELPRO sought to undermine left-wing organizations by

A) Using undercover agents to create dissent
B) Frontal assaults against protests and planning meetings
C) Drafting all dissenters into the military
D) All of the above

Question 18

The Democratic Party's continuing emphasis on helping Black people and supporting the welfare state created white resentment because

A) White people did not benefit from social welfare programs
B) Statistics showed that Black American incomes had surpassed white American incomes by 1972
C) Welfare programs offered a higher standard of living than blue-collar jobs did
D) Many white people felt that Black Americans and welfare recipients were given better educations, housing, and jobs even though that was statistically not true

Question 19

CREEP, the Committee to Re-elect the President, was funded largely by

A) Nixon's private wealth
B) Campaign donations extorted out of major corporations by fundraisers
C) Foreign companies looking for influence in the US
D) Political action committees

Question 20

Woodward and Bernstein were able to break the Watergate story largely because of an anonymous source they called Deep Throat, who turned out to be

A) Nixon campaign official G. Gordon Liddy
B) Mark Felt, deputy director of the FBI
C) Former Kissinger aide Daniel Ellsberg
D) President Nixon