Deck 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Rachel Carson

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (Shah of Iran)

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gerald Ford

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Warren Burger

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Spiro Agnew

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Menachem Begin

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Phyllis Schlafly

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
affirmative action

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Eagleton

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
impoundment

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Nixon

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
détente

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thurgood Marshall

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Leonid Brezhnev

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George McGovern

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"silent majority"

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anwar Sadat

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Kissinger

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jimmy Carter

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Dean III

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABM)

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Kent State killings

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Miranda decision/Miranda warnings

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
second-wave feminism

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Philadelphia Plan

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
My Lai massacre

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pentagon Papers

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
energy crisis

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Clean Air Act

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Silent Spring

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cambodian incursion

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nixon Doctrine

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Griswold v.Connecticut

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
War Powers Act

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
revenue sharing

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Vietnamization

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
executive privilege

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT)

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
United States v.Wheeler

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Organization for Women (NOW)

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Camp David agreement

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bakke case

Question 46

The poor economic performance of the 1970s brought an abrupt end to

A) American reliance on Middle Eastern oil.
B) the Social Security and Medicare programs for the elderly.
C) the increases in military spending of the 1960s.
D) the liberal dream that affluent American could spend its way to social justice.
E) reliance on the dollar as a stable international currency.

Question 47

One reason for the end of the postwar economic boom in the 1970s was

A) the entry of large numbers of women in the workforce.
B) the Arab oil embargo.
C) a decline in technological innovation.
D) a lack of government safety and health regulations.
E) a drastic decline in worker productivity.

Question 48

Lyndon Johnson's insistence on fighting the Vietnam War and funding the Great Society without a tax increase to pay for them led to

A) a drastic inflation of prices in the 1970s.
B) a decline in the competitive advantage of American business.
C) severe cutbacks in the size of the federal government.
D) a taxpayer revolt.
E) a growing reliance on overseas trade to sustain the American economy.

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
OPEC

Question 50

Although the median income of American families stagnated from 1970s to 1990,the reason it didn't decline was

A) people logged more hours.
B) people were paid at a higher rate.
C) wives' wages maintained the family income.
D) people had fewer children.
E) All of these

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Wounded Knee

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Watergate scandal

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Roe v.Wade

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Twenty-Fifth amendment

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Helsinki accords

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Saturday Night Massacre

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
CREEP

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Title IX

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
SALT II treaty

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Iranian hostage crisis

Question 61

The Supreme Court's Miranda and Escobedo decisions came under sharp attack from many conservatives because they

A) prohibited any official recognition of religion in public education.
B) guaranteed the rights of criminal suspects against mistreatment by the police.
C) overturned laws prohibiting unnatural sexual acts.
D) upheld laws requiring busing to achieve racial balance in public schools.
E) upheld laws prohibiting private property owners from polluting rivers and lakes.

Question 62

Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan

A) was a direct attack on affirmative action.
B) aimed at giving direct economic assistance to business.
C) attempted to counter the Supreme Court's opposition to affirmative action.
D) required construction trade unions to establish timetables and goals for hiring black apprentices.
E) aimed to renovate inner cities like those in Philadelphia.

Question 63

Perhaps Richard Nixon's most valuable asset as he began his presidency in 1969 was his

A) naturally conciliatory manner.
B) inclination to try to work openly with antiwar liberals to halt the Vietnam War.
C) close connection with former President Eisenhower.
D) clear mandate from the public as a result of his 1968 election victory.
E) expertise in foreign affairs.

Question 64

President Nixon's policy of Vietnamization of the war in Vietnam called for

A) a gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese.
B) a full-scale conventional invasion of North Vietnam.
C) reorganization of the American army in Vietnam into antiguerrilla units.
D) an end to all American military and economic aid to South Vietnam.
E) a de-emphasis on military assaults in favor of Vietnamese social reform.

Question 65

Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy included all of the following except

A) Vietnamization.
B) extension of the war to Cambodia.
C) massive bombing campaigns in Vietnam.
D) increased American troop commitments.
E) creating a draft lottery and reducing draft calls.

Question 66

Richard Nixon's policy of détente

A) was designed to improve relations between the Soviet Union and China.
B) was aimed at ending the division of Germany and Korea.
C) was a failure.
D) found support in the Democratic party but not the Republican party.
E) ushered in an era of relaxed tensions between the United States and the two leading communist powers, China and the Soviet Union.

Question 67

The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that

A) America's Asian allies would have to fight their wars without large numbers of American troops.
B) the United States would supply only economic aid to its allies.
C) the United would make détente with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China its highest diplomatic priority.
D) all American allies must commit troops to fight communism if necessary.
E) the United States would maintain naval and air bases in East Asia but not send ground troops to fight on the Asian mainland.

Question 68

The Nixon administration still reflected a staunch anticommunist policy when it engaged in covert operations to overthrow the elected leftist government of

A) Cuba.
B) Mexico.
C) China.
D) Chile.
E) Sweden.

Question 69

In 1971,a group of Vietnam War veterans in the U.S.

A) tossed their medals in front of the Capital building to protest against the war.
B) fought the antiwar movement with a demonstration on behalf of U.S. soldiers.
C) protested the lack of medical care and benefits for returning soldiers.
D) encouraged young men in Times Square, NY, to enlist in the U.S. military.
E) supported expanded roles for women in the military.

Question 70

The difference between Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action programs and those of Richard Nixon was

A) very small.
B) that Johnson intended his to help groups and Nixon intended his to help individuals.
C) that Nixon's actions applied only to educational opportunities and did nothing for employment, while Johnson's helped both.
D) that Johnson intended to help individuals, but Nixon conferred privileges on groups.
E) that Johnson established quotas and Nixon ended them.

Question 71

The American armed forces in Vietnam were composed largely of

A) marines.
B) African Americans.
C) soldiers in their middle and late twenties.
D) the least privileged young Americans.
E) professional career soldiers.

Question 72

The Supreme Court,under Chief Justice Earl Warren,outraged religious conservatives in 1962-1963 when it

A) declared a woman's right to an abortion.
B) ruled that prayer and Bible reading in public schools violated the First Amendment.
C) prohibited the display of religious symbols in government buildings.
D) ruled that parochial students could not ride on public school buses.
E) declared that the practice of having congressional chaplains was unconstitutional.

Question 73

The ____ Amendment ____ the voting age to ____.

A) Twenty-Sixth; raised; twenty-one
B) Twenty-Fourth; lowered; eighteen
C) Twenty-Fifth; raised; nineteen
D) Twenty-Sixth; lowered; eighteen
E) Twenty-Sixth; lowered; sixteen

Question 74

Despite his political skills and foreign policy knowledge,Richard Nixon harbored deep and bitter resentments against

A) the conservative, Goldwater wing of the Republican party.
B) women whom he blamed for undermining traditional conservative values.
C) the Communist great powers, China and the Soviet Union, which threatened America.
D) the Catholic Church that be believed looked down on his own Quaker religion.
E) the liberal establishment that had fought him throughout his career.

Question 75

In Griswold v.Connecticut,the Supreme Court upheld a married couple's right to use contraceptives based on

A) the necessary and proper clause of the Constitution.
B) the First Amendment.
C) a right to privacy.
D) Roe v. Wade.
E) the Fifth Amendment.

Question 76

President Nixon's 1970 invasion of Cambodia led to

A) a successful suppression of Viet Cong gains in South Vietnam.
B) congressional approval for an expanded war effort.
C) a growing threat from China to enter the war on the side of North Vietnam.
D) dramatic new waves of bitter domestic protest against the war.
E) an end to the secret American bombing campaign against Cambodia.

Question 77

Richard Nixon's legislation guaranteeing that Social Security raises would be indexed to guarantee against inflation

A) enabled the Republican party to gain ownership of the Social Security issue over the Democrats.
B) was economically supported by an increase in Social Security taxes.
C) actually contributed to increased inflation in the 1970s.
D) was an exception to Nixon's general hostility to Social Security.
E) further demonstrated Nixon's support for the elderly and hostility to younger people.

Question 78

The top-secret Pentagon Papers,leaked and published in 1971

A) revealed President Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal.
B) documented the North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
C) exposed President Nixon's secret bombing war of Cambodia.
D) was the first the American public knew of the Nixon Doctrine.
E) exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War.

Question 79

President Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser,throughout his administration,was

A) Henry Kissinger.
B) John Dean III.
C) Spiro Agnew.
D) Gerald Ford.
E) Donald Rumsfeld.

Question 80

When it came to welfare programs,Richard Nixon

A) sought to exclude African Americans.
B) tried to repeal only food stamps and Medicaid.
C) did little to reduce the poverty rate.
D) did his best to do away with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs.
E) supported significant expansion in many areas.