Clep 1960-70 Nixon Ford
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| show | SALT I 1969-1972 (Nixon Start, Ford Signed)
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| Was SALT I ratified by the U.S. Senate? | show 🗑
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| What did SALT I discourage? | show 🗑
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| show | Substantial reductions of both U.S. and Soviet missiles. Did not decrease Soviet missiles to equal the number of the U.S.
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| show | Less than replacement level of 2.1 children per female
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| show | Work opportunities and improved contraception ("The Pill")
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| SALT I or SALT II: which was NOT ratified by the U.S. Senate? | show 🗑
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| show | Covering up the crimes of his underlings.
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| show | His pardoning of Richard Nixon.
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| All the following social trends disturbed conservatives in the 1970s EXCEPT a. school desegregation. b. abortion rights. c. the sexual revolution. d. drug culture. e. the women's rights movement. | show 🗑
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| Most voters considered which two presidential candidates radicals? a. Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy b. Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower c. Hubert Humphrey and Thomas E Dewey d. Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter e George McGovern and Barry Goldwater | show 🗑
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| One area of domestic policy that Presidents Nixon and Carter had in common was encouraging ____policies | show 🗑
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| show | laziness
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| The War Powers Act contains a 48-hour notification period if the Pres.sends troops to an overseas conflict, an immediate w/drawal under a concurrent resolution of both Houses, a w/drawal of troops if Congress does not approve deployment in 60 days & ___. | show 🗑
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| show | fair election
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| The basis for the War Powers Act was ___ under the Constitution to declare war. | show 🗑
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| President Gerald Ford gave this as his reason for pardoning former President Richard Nixon. | show 🗑
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| Henry Kissinger used shuttle diplomacy during Gerald Ford's administration to try to ease tensions between ___. | show 🗑
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| show | Carter's personal integrity.
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| show | South Africa
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| President Carter's greatest economic challenge was ___. | show 🗑
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| show | c. Jimmy Carter
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| show | c. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
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| During his campaign for president in the election of 1968, Richard Nixon claimed he had a "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam. His plan was ___, having the South Vietnamese take over the war as the United States gradually pulled out. | show 🗑
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| show | Cambodia
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| The decision to invade Cambodia resulted in massive demonstrations, including a tragic incident at ___University, where four people were killed by the Ohio National Guard. | show 🗑
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| The ___ Accords were signed in 1973, resulting in the complete withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. | show 🗑
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| show | Communist
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| Under President Nixon, a twenty year freeze in relations with ____ were formally ended, and he personally visited the country to normalize relations. | show 🗑
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| One of the goals Richard Nixon worked towards was world stability, and one of his accomplishments in this area was improving relations with China. ____between the United States and China increased soon after Nixon's visit to China in1972. | show 🗑
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| show | opened the door
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| No Americans had been invited to China since its Communist takeover in 1949, but in 1971, China invited the American table tennis team, beginning what was known as ___Diplomacy. | show 🗑
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| show | nuclear missiles
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| The ____was the first major treaty signed concerning nuclear weapons since the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty during Kennedy's term. It was the beginning of a short period of reduced tensions between the Soviet Union and United States known as detente. | show 🗑
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| President Nixon pursued a policy of ___, which sought to find ways for the Soviet Union and the United States to work together to reduce tension through increased contact. | show 🗑
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| show | oil embargo
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| show | Yom Kippur
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| show | Federalism
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| President Nixon's domestic agenda was called the New Federalism. A big part of the New Federalism involved limiting the federal government's power, and returning some of that power to ____governments. | show 🗑
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| show | controversial
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| A key element of President Nixon's New Federalism was the concept of ____, in which the federal government would redirect federal funds to state and local governments to use however they decided. | show 🗑
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| The Family Assistance Plan (FAP) called for replacing welfare programs such as Food Stamps, Aid to Families with Dep. Children, & Medicaid with direct cash payments towards a min. annual income, & in return requiring recipients to___ . | show 🗑
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| show | Family Assistance
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| show | $4 billion
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| show | was not as successful
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| The National ___ Policy Act (NEPA) was signed into law in 1969. | show 🗑
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| Under President Nixon's administration, the Environmental Protection Agency was created to establish and ___ environmental protection standards. | show 🗑
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| Under President Nixon's administration, the ___ and Health Administration (OSHA) was created to enforce workplace standards to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths in 1971. | show 🗑
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| show | Clean Air
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| show | Stagflation
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| show | Watergate scandal
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| The Watergate scandal began in 1972 when five men were arrested while breaking into the Dem. party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in D.C. After 2 years of invest., it was clear Nixon was going to be __, and he resigned from office. | show 🗑
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| The ___ Massacre was a series of events where Nixon ordered Att. Gen Elliot Richardson to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, but Richardsonand his deputy refused and resigned, and Solicitor Gen.Robert Bork ended up firing Cox as ordered. | show 🗑
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| Archibald Cox was investigating the Watergate scandal for the Justice Department, and demanded that President Nixon turn over the Watergate ___. President Nixon refused, and the Saturday Night Massacre resulted. | show 🗑
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| Shortly before Nixon's resignation, Vice President Agnew resigned due to charges of___ and bribery. President Nixon appointed Gerald Ford as the new vice president. | show 🗑
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| President Nixon named Congressman Gerald Ford as his new vice president. When Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford became president, being the only person to be both vice president and president without being ___ to either position. | show 🗑
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| President Ford pardoned __ for any crimes he might have committed as president a month after Nixon's resignation. | show 🗑
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| One of President Gerald Ford's attempts to deal with inflation was the Whip Inflation Now campaign, calling on Americans to voluntarily ___instead of spending it. | show 🗑
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| The Whip Inflation Now (WIN) campaign provided Americans with "WIN" buttons and a list of ways they could help the nation defeat inflation. It seemed to have ___. | show 🗑
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| show | Kissinger
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| During President Ford's administration, talks began on a second SALT treaty to limit nuclear weapons.This came to be known as "___." As a result, Israel agreed to return most of the Sinai Peninsula it had captured in 1967 to Egypt. | show 🗑
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| show | ended the restrictions
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| show | Immigration Act
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| During whose administration was the term détente first used to describe United States foreign policy? a. John F. Kennedy b. Lyndon B Johnson c. Richard M. Nixon d. Jimmy Carter e. Ronald Reagan | show 🗑
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| Revenue sharing did not take the form of ___. | show 🗑
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| The Articles of Impeachment drawn up against President Nixon accused him of___ , abuse of power, and refusal to supply subpoenaed information. | show 🗑
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| President Nixon's response to stagflation was the he used his presidential authority to impose wage and ___. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following presidents found support among the silent majority? a. Calvin Coolidge b. Dwight Eisenhower c. Richard Nixon d. Ronald Reagan e. Bill Clinton | show 🗑
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| Which of the following was NOT part of President Nixon's foreign policy? a. Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam b. Recognition of the People's Republic of China c. Détente d. Camp David Accords e. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I | show 🗑
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| show | white middle-class Americans
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| What view point of Nixons's was important part of his plan to attract white Southern voters into the Republican Party? | show 🗑
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| The election of 1968 was significant because it indicated a decline in the appeal of the ___ for many Americans. | show 🗑
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