Modern Era Quiz 1

Which President was involved in the Watergate scandal?

• Johnson
• Ford 
• Kennedy
• Nixon

Stagflation is 

• high inflation and economic growth
• low inflation and economic growth
• high inflation and low economic growth
• high inflation and low unemployment

Which president was successful in negotiating a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.

• Richard Nixon
• Gerald Ford
• Jimmy Carter
• Ronald Reagan

US EMBASSY ATTACKED. HOSTAGES TAKEN.

• IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR
• CAMP DAVID ACCORDS
• IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
• OPEC

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

Which situation in the 1970s caused the US to reconsider its dependence on foreign energy resources?

• meetins with teh Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons
• oil embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• war in Afghanistan
• free-trade agreements with Canada and Mexico

One similarity between the 1930s and the 1970s was that both decades were characterized by..

• American troops sent to fight in an unpopular war
• the massive growth of American suburbs
• the acquisition of large overseas territories
• weak economies with high unemployment

CONTROL OIL PRICES AROUND THE WORLD

• OPEC
• NATO
• UNITED NATIONS
• IRAN

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

Broad tax cuts, and financial deregulation, which would promote economic expansion, are examples of what policy's objective:

• Reaganomics
• Trade Imbalance
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Heritage Foundation