The 1970s

Who was the president during the 1970s'?

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• George H. W. Bush

• George Washington

What was the political scandal where Nixon had to resign?

• Stagflation

• War Powers Act

• Watergate

• Iran Hostage Crisis

What is it called when the government or central banks expand the money supply the same time they force supply?

• Stagflation

• Economy

• Inflation

• Expansion

The most important agreement between President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev was: 

• Cooperation in exploration of space
• A limit to offensive nuclear weapons
• German re-unification 
• Lessening trade limits

Democrat President who negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt... peanut farmer!

• Gerald Ford
• Jimmy Carter
• Ronald Reagan
• Barack Obama

The goal of OPEC is...

• to protect Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
• to control the global supply and price of copper
• to control the global supply and price of oil
• to keep all oil in the Middle East

In 1979 a revolution in this nation ended with 53 Americans being held hostage.

• Iran
• Iraq
• Saudi Arabia
• Syria

The biggest foreign policy failure during the presidency of Jimmy Carter was...

• granting a presidential pardon to Richard Nixon
• the fall of China to communism under Mao Zedong
• his inability to negotiate the release of US hostages in Iran
• the near nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba

In the Camp David Accords (1978), President Jimmy Carter succeeded in...

• returning the Panama Canal Zone to Panama
• suspending grain sales to the Soviet Union and China
• freeing hostages being held in Iran
• providing a foundation for a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

Which action did President Ford take in an attempt to end the national controversy over the Watergate affair?

• pardoning Nixon
• declaring a war on poverty
• declining to run for election
• asking Congress to impeach President Nixon