1970s Presidents Quiz Review

True or False:
Nixon was impeached from presedency. 

• True
• False

Which word means, "easing/lessening of tension?"

• Inflation
• Detente
• Stagflation
• Constipation 

What is the legacy of the Vietnam War for the U.S.?

• It was the longest and least successful war in American history
• It was long and hard, but did contain communism
• our soldiers were welcomed home as heroes
• The Soviets slowed their efforts to spread communism

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

Which president pardoned Richard Nixon?

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Why did the Arab members of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) raise their oil prices leading to a gas shortage?

• the United States and other countries were trading with Israel during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973

• the United States and other countries were trading with Palestine during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

• the United States was facing high unemployment rates

• the United States planned on boycotting the purchasing of oil from the Middle East

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

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