Operation Intercept

When did President Nixon announce the largest peacetime search and seizure operation in US history?

• Sept 16

• Sept 21

• Sept 8

• Sept 30

• September 31

How long did Operation Intercept last?

• one week

• 2 weeks

• 3 weeks

• four weeks

• five weeks

When the entire US-Mexican border was militarized, soldiers were called up from _____ to patrol the border.

• Fort Brown

• Fort Clark

• Fort Crockett

• Fort Bliss

• Fort McIntosh

Nixon gave a speech because the US drug problem was out of hand and called for things like doubling border security. The name of this speech was ?

• The law and order speech

• The Checkers speech

• The Silent Majority speech

• The Watergate speech

• The Kitchen Cabinet speech

One of the recommendations, for Operation Intercept, was to increase the size of the parking lots on the border so people would be easier to search.

• true

• false

After being embarassed by Operation Intercept, Mexico organized a boycott on US goods called _____.

• Operation No Mames
• Operation Impact
• Operation Peinabombillas
• Operation Wetback
• Operation Dignity

After the failure of Operation Intercept, the Nixon administration focused less on foreign interdiction and more on treatment and domestic programs.

• true
• false

As an apology for Operation Intercept, the US offered to settle a border dispute by giving Mexico _____ acres of land in West Texas.

• 250
• 500
• 750
• 1000
• 1250

The Mexican foreign minister who called Operation Intercept the lowest point in his career was _____?

• Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Antonio Carrillo Flores
• Luis Echeverría
• Julio Sanchez Vargas
• Eliseo Garcia Araujo

One of Nixon's point people on Operation Intercept that is later implicated in the Watergate scandal is ____?

• Henry Kissinger

• Robert Henry McBride

• Edward Royball

• John Erhlichman

• William Fulbright