Vocab Quiz Presidents: Nixon to Reagan

Which group was created by President Nixon to set air and water pollution standards to protect the health of people and the environment?

• Food and Drug Administration

• SALT I

• Equal Rights Association

• Environmental Protection Agency

Nixon became the first President in over 20 years to have "normal" relations with which country?

• Germany

• Vietnam

• China

• Soviet Union

What agreement did the Soviets sign with the US partly because of Nixon's visit to communist China?

• The Treaty of Paris

• The Camp David Accords

• SALT I Treaty

• ^Détente

What protects wildlife and ecosystems that are threatened with extinction?

• The Environmental Protection Agency

• The Endagered Species Act

• The National Parks System

• The rise of conservatism

Which scandal(s) increased citizen's distrust of the government because they were secret exercise of government power?

• Watergate Scandal

• Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Marines in Lebanon

• Iran-Contra Affair

This problem of the 1970s damaged the nation's economy and led to inflation.

• Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Oil Embargo

• Watergate Scandal

• Iran-Contra Affair

This was when President Carter helped to negotiate a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

• SALT I Treaty

• Suez Canal Treaty

• Camp David Accords

• Treaty of Portsmouth

The Iranian Hostage Crisis was...

• when President Nixon visited Iran to work out a deal for the release of American hostages.

• when President Reagan secretly authorized the sale of weapons in exchange for the release of American hostages

• when US embassy workers were kidnapped due to the U.S. support of the Shah of Iran under President Carter

• when President Ford's inability to negotiate the release of hostages damaged his presidency

This term means the relaxing of tensions

• Stagflation

• Reaganomics

• Détente

• Conservatism

The Moral Majority, the Heritage Foundation, and the NRA all represented a rise in what in the 1980s?

• Liberalism

• Conservatism

• Conservationism

• Expansionism