Review Questions
- One of the original founders of AIM was ________.
- Patsy Mink
- Dennis Banks
- Jerry Rubin
- Glenn Weiser
- 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
- What kinds of values did hippies adopt?
- 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
- 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
- What caused the rifts in the Democratic Party in the 1968 election?
- 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
- 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- repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution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
- According to John Kerry, how did many U.S. soldiers treat Vietnamese civilians?
- 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
- Of these figures, who was not indicted following the Watergate break-in and cover-up?
- John Mitchell
- Bob Woodward
- John Ehrlichman
- H.R. Haldeman
- In what types of unethical and illegal activities did the White House plumbers and the “dirty tricks” squad engage?
- 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
- 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
- What were President Carter’s successes in the area of foreign policy?