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Self-Test
Nixon, Ford, and Carter, 1969–1981
Results of the quiz.
1. During his 1972 trip to the Soviet Union, Nixon and Soviet leaders signed a treaty to
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CORRECT: limit nuclear weapons.
2. Why did Nixon want to wiretap the phones in the Watergate apartment complex?
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CORRECT: He was seeking information about his political enemies, the Democrats.
3. Jimmy Carter won the 1976 election by presenting himself as
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CORRECT: honest and open.
4. In which area were President Nixon's greatest achievements?
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CORRECT: foreign policy
5. What was the ultimate effect of the OPEC embargo of 1973?
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CORRECT: The United States entered a recession.
6. Many Americans responded to President Ford's pardon of Nixon with
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CORRECT: angry criticism.
7. President Ford and Congress were often in conflict because Ford
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CORRECT: favored limited government while Congress wanted a more active government.
8. What is détente?
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CORRECT: a relaxation of tensions between nations
9. When Ford took over as President, the economy was
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CORRECT: in a recession.
10. What was Nixon's initial reaction to news of the Watergate break-in?
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CORRECT: He tried to convince the FBI not to investigate.
11. As President, Richard Nixon surrounded himself with
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CORRECT: a small circle of loyal advisers.
12. In 1979, a major crisis developed in Iran after
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CORRECT: angry Iranians seized the American embassy and took hostages.
13. One of Carter's great foreign policy successes was helping to negotiate a peace treaty
between
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CORRECT: Israel and Egypt.
14. In dealing with Congress, President Carter and his staff were
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CORRECT: inexperienced and ineffective.
15. The main goal of Carter's energy policy was to
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CORRECT: promote energy conservation.
16. The goal of Nixon's "southern strategy" was to
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CORRECT: gain the support of white southern Democrats.
17. In February 1972, Nixon became the first American President ever to visit
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CORRECT: China.
18. What provided evidence of President Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up?
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CORRECT: tape recordings of White House conversations
19. During Nixon's tenure, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to
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CORRECT: walk on the moon.
20. As the nation's economic problems grew during the Carter administration,
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CORRECT: people lost faith in Carter and his economic advisors.
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