Nixon-Reagan Test

What is NOT a cause of Stagflation in the 1970s?

• Reduced competition for international trade.

• A flood of new workers, including women and baby boomers

• Heavy dependence on foreign oil from the Middle East

• High inflation from funding the war and social programs

True or False: Nixon was removed from the Office of the Presidency due to his role in the Watergate Scandal?

• True

• False

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s foreign policy was known as what?

• Absolutism

• Federalism

• Realpolitik

• Tyranny

What best describes New Federalism?

• More power to the federal government

• Distributed a portion of federal power to state & local government

• All power distributed to local governments

• Power removed from the Executive Branch and given to Congress

What policy did NOT occur during the Nixon Administration to protect the environment?

• Signed the Clean Air Act

• Established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Establishment of the Endangered Species Act

• Carson Act for Environmental Clean UP

What is the Nixon policy of Détente?

• Easing Cold War tensions

• Increasing nuclear arms

• Nixon’s plan to end Vietnam

• Civil Rights Policy

How did Gerald Ford become the 38^th President?

• He was elected by the people

• He took office after Nixon was removed from office

• He took office after Nixon resigned from office

• Congress placed him in office after Watergate

“Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) encouraged Americans to do what? 

• Cut back on the use of oil and gas, and to save energy

• Cut back on defense spending

• Cutting taxes

• Cutting social programs

True or False: Congress approved monetary aid to Vietnam after Ford Asked for it in 1973.

• True

• Fasle

What was the goal of the Helsinki Accords?

• To promote environmental protections worldwide

• To encourage human and civil rights world wide

• To promote greater cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe

• To ban nuclear testing