STAAR: 1970's - 2000's

Nixon's visit to China & the Soviet Union was a part of what Cold War strategy?

• triangulation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• rollback

Which side did the U.S. support in the Yom Kippur & Six-Day Wars?

• Israel
• Egypt
• Syria
• Lebanon

Why did students storm the U.S. Embassy in Iran & take hostages in 1979?

• U.S. supported the exiled Shah
• U.S. supported the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution
• U.S. supported Israel in Yom Kippur War
• Carter Doctrine

What scandal involved the botched break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters & cost Nixon the presidency?

• Watergate
• Teapot Dome
• Spygate
• Travelgate

What new foreign policy did Nixon adopt to ease tensions with the Soviet Union?

• Detente
• triangulation
• brinkmanship
• mutually assured destruction

High inflation + high unemployment

• stagflation
• deflation
• fiat money
• hyper-inflation

U.S. actions in the Middle East caused what action by OPEC?

• oil embargo
• free trade agreement
• lowering of oil prices
• declaration of war

What was the "corrupt bargain"?

• Ford pardoning Nixon
• Nixon's cover-up of Watergate
• Ford's handling of the Mayaguez Incident
• Election of Jimmy Carter

What led to the Carter Doctrine, the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, & the grain embargo?

• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Yom Kippur War
• Lebanese Civil War
• Soviet invasion of Israel

Nixon was the first U.S. president to visit this communist country?

• China
• Cuba
• North Korea
• East Germany