Nixon/Ford/Carter

What building was broken into during the Watergate Break-in?

• The Capitol Building
• The White House
• Republican Headquarters
• Democratic Headquarters

True or False:

Nixon was impeached from presidency.

• False

• True

What communist nation did president Nixon visit to extend relations during his Administration?

• Cuba

• China

• Soviet Union

• Both China and Japan

Which word means, "easing/lessening of tension?"

• Inflation
• Detente
• Stagflation
• Constipation 

Which statement most accurately depicts why president Nixon had to resign from office in 1974?

• He had an affair with an intern
• He pulled troops out of Vietnam in 1973
• He opened relations with China and the Soviet Union
• He led a criminal conspiracy from the White House, which mislead the nation

After the U.S. got out of Vietnam in 1973, what happened to the country two years later?

• The South Vietnamese won thanks to Nixon's bombing of Cambodia

• The country remained divided at the 17th parallel and still remains divided today

• The North Vietnamese won and made the entire country communist

• The U.S. re-entered the war and helped the South Vietnamese defeat the north

President Nixon’s policy of reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam allowing South Vietnam to assume more the fighting was known as…

• Vietnamization

• Detente

• Watergate

• Brinkmanship

What critical event affected both the Ford and Carter presidencies?

• Watergate

• the energy (oil) crisis

• Iran hostage crisis

• rise of Sandinistas in Nicaragua

President Gerald Ford lost the most support from the American public for

• allowing the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists

• his ineffective WIN campaign against inflation

• becoming the first unelected president of the United States

• his pardon of Richard Nixon

All of the following played a role in the rise of the women’s movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s EXCEPT

• The invention of the birth control pill.

• The release of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.

• The passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

• The creation of organizations like NOW.