Review Questions

1. One of the original founders of AIM was ________.

Patsy Mink
Dennis Banks
Jerry Rubin
Glenn Weiser

2. The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade established that ________.

abortions obtained during the first three months of pregnancy were legal
witnesses were not required to corroborate a charge of rape
marriage could not be abolished
homosexuality was a mental illness

3. What kinds of values did hippies adopt?

4. President Nixon took a bold diplomatic step in early 1972 when he ________.

went to Vienna
declared the Vietnam War over
met with Chinese leaders in Beijing
signed the Glasgow Accords

5. The blue-collar workers who Nixon called “the silent majority” ________.

fled to the suburbs to avoid integration
wanted to replace existing social institutions with cooperatives
opposed the war in Vietnam
believed their opinions were overlooked in the political process

6. What caused the rifts in the Democratic Party in the 1968 election?

7. The demonstrations at Kent State University in May 1970 were held to protest what event?

the My Lai massacre
the North Vietnamese invasion of Saigon
the invasion of Cambodia by U.S. forces
the signing of a peace agreement with North Vietnam

8. Recognizing that ongoing protests and campus violence reflected a sea change in public opinion about the war, in 1971 Nixon ________.

repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
postponed the invasion of Cambodia
released the Pentagon Papers
covered up the My Lai massacre

9. According to John Kerry, how did many U.S. soldiers treat Vietnamese civilians?

10. The agreement Gerald Ford signed with the leader of the Soviet Union that ended the territorial issues remaining from World War II was ________.

the Moscow Communiqué
the Beijing Treaty
the Iceland Protocol
the Helsinki Accords

11. Of these figures, who was not indicted following the Watergate break-in and cover-up?

John Mitchell
Bob Woodward
John Ehrlichman
H.R. Haldeman

12. In what types of unethical and illegal activities did the White House plumbers and the “dirty tricks” squad engage?

13. During the 1976 election campaign, Jimmy Carter famously promised ________.

that he would never start a war
that he would never be unfaithful to his wife
that he had never smoked marijuana
that he would never lie

14. Carter deregulated several major American industries in an effort to ensure that ________.

companies would become more competitive
airlines would merge
oil prices would rise
consumers would start conserving energy

15. What were President Carter’s successes in the area of foreign policy?