Unit 11: The Cold War Ends and the 21st Century Begins

Nixon visited the Peoples Republic of China to establish __________ relations.

• foreign

• domestic

• diplomatic

• allies

What do many find Nixon's greatest accomplishment to be?

• opening of relations with Cuba

• opening of relations with Communist China

• Watergate

• ending the Vietnam War

Nixon and the Soviet Union singed SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) to

• make the United States military stronger

• establish diplomatic relations

• limit the race for oil production

• limit the arms race

Former CIA agents broke into Democratic headquarters. Nixon tried to cover up the burglary. He was forced by the Supreme Court to hand over his tapes of White House conversations. These showed that Nixon had lied about the cover-up. This was known as?

• Lewinsky scandal

• Watergate scandal

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Teapot Dome

Which president pardoned Richard Nixon?

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Under Ford's Presidency in 1975, South Vietnam fell to what country

• China

• North Vietnam

• Korea

• Cambodia

President Ford's greatest success was

• "detente"

• Helsinki Accords

• Camp David Accords

• the end of the Vietnam War

This US President who pledged honest and moral policies was

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

Carter signed the _________________ promising to return the canal to Panama

• Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

• Panama Canal Treaty

• Panama Canal

• Torrijos-Carter Treaty

The photograph above shows foreign leaders meeting with President Carter at Camp David in 1978. What was the outcome of this meeting?

• The United States and its allies halted grain sales to the Soviet Union

• The United States persuaded Egypt and Israel to sign a future peace treaty

• The United States signed a treaty promising the return of the Panama Canal Zone

• The United States successfully rescued hostages held by Iranian students in Tehran