Presidents Carter, Ford and Reagan

What is considered President Carter's greatest accomplishment?

• ending American involvement in the Vietnam War
• the Iranian hostage crisis
• Camp David Peace Accords
• solving the nation's energy crisis

At the Camp David Accords, Carter negotiated a peace treaty between what two long-time rival nations?

• the Soviet Union & the USA
• Israel & Egypt
• North Vietnam & South Vietnam
• the USSR & Afghanistan

The most damaging failure of Jimmy Carter's presidency was his inability to free 52 Americans being held hostage in _________. 

• the Soviet Union
• North Vietnam
• Iran
• Afghanistan

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 crisis

• Iran hostage crisis

• rise of Sandinistas in Nicaragua

The American Hostage Crisis in Iran was caused in part by

• the American government allowing the deposed Shah of Iran to come to the US for cancer treatment

• Carter's involvement in arranging the Camp David accords between the Egyptians and the Israelis

• American air strikes against Iran's ally, Libya

• American attempts to overthrow the newly emplaced government of Ayatollah Khomeini

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

What is the main idea of this cartoon from the Watergate era?

• The Supreme Court presides over a presidential impeachment trial.

• Congress has to obey the Constitution.

• The president has the final word involving constitutional issues.

• No person or group is above the law.

The combination of high inflation with a stagnant economy and high unemployment was referred to as

• stagflation

• demand-side economics

• a depression

• Keynesianism

What was the purpose of the Camp David Accords led by President Carter?

• to broker peace between Egypt and Israel

• to end the Iranian hostage crisis

• to maintain good relations with the Shah

• to find a way to end the economic recession