Extra Quiz: Chapter 39
1. Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968 in part by appealing to the:
2. Which third-party candidate ran a strong segregationist campaign in 1968?
3. Nixon created which federal agency in 1970?
4. Nixon's policy of gradually withdrawing U.S. troops while shifting combat duty to South Vietnam was called:
5. The 1970 American and South Vietnamese incursion that triggered nationwide protests took place in:
6. National Guardsmen killed four student protesters in 1970 at:
7. The Pentagon Papers, leaked in 1971, revealed that officials had:
8. In February 1972, Nixon made a historic visit to:
9. Nixon's national security adviser who helped engineer the China opening and detente was:
10. SALT I, signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972, was an agreement to:
11. The June 1972 Watergate break-in targeted the offices of the:
12. The Washington Post reporters who investigated the Watergate scandal were:
13. The October 1973 firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox is known as the:
14. The Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Nixon (1974) held that:
15. Nixon resigned the presidency in August 1974, making him:
16. Gerald Ford became vice president in 1973 after replacing:
17. Ford's pardon of Nixon in September 1974:
18. Ford's largely symbolic anti-inflation campaign was known by the acronym:
19. South Vietnam's government finally collapsed with the fall of Saigon in:
20. Jimmy Carter, elected in 1976, made which issue the centerpiece of his foreign policy?
21. The 1978 Camp David Accords produced a historic peace treaty between:
22. The 1973 OPEC oil embargo against the United States was imposed in retaliation for:
23. The unusual combination of high inflation and stagnant economic growth in the 1970s was called:
24. Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November 1979 after the United States:
25. The Iran hostage crisis finally ended, with the hostages released, in:
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