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Clep 1970s Carter
Clep 1970 Carters
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One factor that contributed to Jimmy Carter's success in running for president in the election of 1976 was that there was a ___in the government as a result of the Watergate scandal. | lack of public confidence |
| As a result of the Watergate scandal, many people no longer trusted the government. ___ was seen as honest, and an outsider to Washington, and these qualities gave him an advantage over Gerald Ford. | Jimmy Carter |
| During President Carter's administration, the Department of___was created. This department was created to regulate existing energy suppliers and fund research on new sources of energy. | Energy |
| When Carter was in office, the country was in an ___, with crude oil prices ten times as high in 1979 as they were in 1973. As a result, he sought to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign sources of oil. | energy crisis |
| Jimmy Carter made ___ the centerpiece of his foreign policy. | human rights |
| Carter ended military and economic aid to Nicaragua due to ___, pressed countries to improve treatment of their citizens, and pushed for a treaty which transferred the Panama Canal to Panamanian control. | human rights violations |
| The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) major price increases in the 1970s contributed to ___in the United States, with crude oil costing ten times as much in 1979 as it did in 1973. | inflation |
| OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) is made up of ___ in the Middle East, and often used its economic clout for political purposes. OPEC announced an embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. when the U.S. aided Israel in the Yom Kippur War. | oil exporting countries |
| The U.S. was so dependent on foreign oil that the OPEC could dictate oil prices. One of Carter's goals was to ___, and he succeeded somewhat with the efforts of the newly created Department of Energy. | reduce dependence |
| The progress of detente between the United States and the Soviet Union ended during President Carter's administration when the U.S.S.R. invaded ____. | Afghanistan |
| The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1980 to support the pro-___government there. Detente was the policy started by Richard Nixon that called for cooperation with the Soviet Union to reduce political tension. | communist |
| Before the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter continued to pursue detente with the Soviet Union, signing the ___ with Soviet leader Brezhnev. | second SALT treaty |
| The SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) began during Gerald Ford's administration and were signed in 1979 under President Carter. However, plans to ratify the treaty were ___ when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. | suspended |
| The United States' response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980 was a suspension of the ratification of the SALT II treaty, and a call for a___ of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. | boycott |
| During President Carter's administration, he built on the work of Nixon by establishing full diplomatic relations with___. | China |
| One of the major achievements of President Carter's administration was the signing of the Camp David Accords, in which Israel withdrew from the ___ it had captured in 1967. | Sinai Peninsula |
| The ___normalized relations between Israel and Egypt. | Camp David Accords |
| President Carter's failure to resolve the___ in Iran contributed to his defeat in the election of 1980. | hostage crisis |
| The U.S. embassy staff in Iran were seized as hostages on Nov 4, 1979. Carter began several diplomatic initiatives to free the hostages, and when those failed, a rescue mission was attempted which also failed miserably. | |
| Iran released the hostages in 1981, the day of President ___inauguration. | Reagan's |
| The Equal Rights Amendment which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex was passed in 1972, after initially being proposed in 1923. However, it was ___by the required number of states. | not ratified |
| The Equal Rights Amend. finally passed both houses and was signed by Nixon nearly 50 years after it was first introduced. However, an amendment to the Constitution requires the ___. Only by 35 states ratified by the deadline--38 were required. | ratification of 3/4 of the states |
| In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that ___guaranteed by the Constitution, and made it unconstitutional for any state to restrict abortion in most circumstances. | abortion was a right |
| The ruling made in 1973 in Roe v. Wade was one of the Supreme Court's most controversial decisions. This resulted in the beginning of the ___. | Right-to-Life movement |
| ___action programs began in the 1970s, and called for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment and education. | Affirmative |
| Affirmative action programs seek to redress ___discrimination by taking measures to ensure equal opportunity. | past |
| Critics of affirmative action programs say that such programs are a form of ___, which involves discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group. | reverse discrimination |
| Reverse discrimination is discrimination against the dominant group in a population, especially ___. | white males |
| The Indian Self-Determination Act, passed in 1974, gave Native Americans ___ in administering federal programs and services meant to benefit them. | more control |
| Conflict between Israel and Egypt settled by treaty in . .? | Carter's High point: Camp David Accords 1978 |
| When were the Camp David Accords signed? | 1978 |
| What did President Carter do that enraged Iran? | He allowed the deposed Shah to enter the U.S. for cancer treatment. |
| What crisis was precipitated by President Carter's decision to allow the Shah into the U.S. for cancer treatment | Young Iranian males (claimed to be students and backed by their government) took over the U.S. Embassy and took 76 hostages. 62 were held for over a year. |
| What crisis contributed to the ruin of the Carter Presidency? | The Iranian Hostage Crisis |
| When did the Iranian Hostage Crisis begin? | 11/4/1979 444 days held |
| Stagflation in the mid-1970s was characterized by inflation accompanied by a rise in ___ and flat economic growth. | unemployment |
| All of the following are characteristics of society in the 1970s EXCEPT a. lessening of support for rights for minorities. b. an increase in the number of women in the workforce. c. Ms. magazine on newsstands. d. computers on desks. | d. computers on desks. |
| The greatest concern of Western environmentalists in the 1970s and 1980s ___ conservation. | water |
| The significance of the Federal Election Campaign Act was that its goal was to eliminate the influence of large campaign __ on federal elected officials. | donors |
| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, (1971) was an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with the___ of students to promote integration in public schools. | busing |
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