Unit 10 Exam Review

In 1970 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created by the government. Why?

• To save the United States from WWIII

• To set emissions standard for all cars in the United States

• To establish and enforce pollution standards

• To save the rains in Africa

What was the purpose of SALT 1?

• To increase the production of nuclear weapons

• To decrease production of ICBM's

• To limit peace talks between the United States and China

• To end the Vietnam War for a limited period

Former CIA agents were caught breaking in to the Democratic Party Headquarters in Washington, D.C. leading to the resignation of Pres. Nixon

• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Watergate Scandal
• Star Wars
• Camp David Accords

OPEC was a group of mainly Arab nations that exported __________.

• Steel
• Coal
• Oil
• Lumber

Lines for gas such as the one in this photograph resulted from —

• the dissolution of Standard Oil Company

• an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

• the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline and dependence on imported oil

• an embargo by the OPEC and dependence on imported oil

What was one of the main goals of the Community Reinvestment Act?

• to decrease discriminatory actions of banks

• to fund school programs

• to stop socialism

• to fight terrorism

The Watergate Scandal was responsible for-

• decrease in confidence in the U.S government

• the impeachment of President Nixon

• major tax cuts under President Reagan

• keeping the peace in the middle-east

Opening diplomatic relations with China by Nixon, influenced the Soviet Union signing-

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Camp David Accords

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (S.A.L.T)

• Entente

Migration patterns in the U.S in the 20th century shifted from-

• Midwest to Northeast

• West to North

• Northeast to West

• Midwest to the South

Which president pardoned Richard Nixon?

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

• Lyndon B. Johnson