Ford & Carter

How did President Jimmy Carter attempt to end hostilities between the groups that fought these wars?

• He helped negotiate a peace treaty known as the Camp David Accords.

• He deployed U.S. troops to defeat the Palestine Liberation Organization.

• He ordered the boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow.

• He threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Syria.

These demonstrations led to —

• a global energy crisis brought on by an OPEC oil embargo

• the bombing of a Marine barracks, followed by retaliatory U.S. air strikes

• a U.S. boycott of the Olympics in protest of events in Central Asia

• a hostage crisis that severely damaged confidence in the Carter administration

What best explains this 1974 headline?

• President Clinton was accused of having an affair with a White House intern

• President Carter rescues 42 hostages held by Iran

• President Nixon resign amid the Watergate Scandal

• President Bush successfully invades Iraq and captures Saddam Hussein

At the Camp David Accords, Carter negotiated a peace treaty between what two long-time rival nations?

• the Soviet Union & the USA
• Israel & Egypt
• North Vietnam & South Vietnam
• the USSR & Afghanistan

The most damaging failure of Jimmy Carter's presidency was his inability to free 52 Americans being held hostage in _________. 

• the Soviet Union
• North Vietnam
• Iran
• Afghanistan

What critical event affected both the Ford and Carter presidencies?

• Watergate

• the energy crisis

• Iran hostage crisis

• rise of Sandinistas in Nicaragua

The American Hostage Crisis in Iran was caused in part by

• the American government allowing the deposed Shah of Iran to come to the US for cancer treatment

• Carter's involvement in arranging the Camp David accords between the Egyptians and the Israelis

• American air strikes against Iran's ally, Libya

• American attempts to overthrow the newly emplaced government of Ayatollah Khomeini

President Gerald Ford lost the most support from the American public for

• allowing the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists

• his ineffective WIN campaign against inflation

• becoming the first unelected president of the United States

• his pardon of Richard Nixon

What is the main idea of this cartoon from the Watergate era?

• The Supreme Court presides over a presidential impeachment trial.

• Congress has to obey the Constitution.

• The president has the final word involving constitutional issues.

• No person or group is above the law.

The combination of high inflation with a stagnant economy and high unemployment was referred to as

• stagflation

• demand-side economics

• a depression

• Keynesianism