Ford + Carter

Which best explains why Jimmy Carter won the 1976 election?

• He was an outsider with no connection to Watergate.

• He promised to use nuclear weapons against the USSR.

• He promised to give stimulus checks

• He promised to end Jim Crow.

How did President Jimmy Carter attempt to end hostilities between the groups that fought these wars?

• He helped negotiate a peace treaty known as the Camp David Accords.

• He deployed US troops to defeat the Palestine Liberation Organization.

• He ordered the boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow.

• He threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Syria.

Which of the following greatly decreased President Gerald Ford’s popularity?

• Continuing the war in Vietnam.

• The Helsinki Accords

• Pardoning Richard Nixon

• Failing to secure the release of hostages in Iran.

in 1979 the Shah of Iran was forced into exile. The US government later allowed the Shah to enter the United States for medical treatment.

This perceived US support for the Shah of Iran resulted in which of the following?

• Iran attacked a US military base in Asia.

• Soviet forces began an occupation of Iran.

• Israel demanded US support for the strategic bombing of cities in Iran.

• Revolutionaries kidnapped a group of US citizens in Iran.

“The energy crisis… is a problem... Likely to get progressively worse throughout the rest of this century... Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people. This difficult effort will be the ‘moral equivalent of war,’ except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.”

This Jimmy Carter quote came as a result of what national crisis?

• 1979 OPEC embargo

• 1980 Olympics

• The Watergate Scandal

• Teapot Dome Scandal