70s/80s Day 1

Which action is PROHIBITED under Title IX or the Education Amendment of 1972?

• Principal refused to organize a female sports team
• Funding for a music program is cut because of tax revenue
• Teacher attempts to organize a charity basketball game
• Staffing for a foreign language class is reduced

What was the reaction of many Americans to the Watergate scandal?

• Confidence in the presidential selection process
• Support for the containment of communism
• Discontent over the antiwar and civil rights protests
• Cynicism about government and elected politicians

What was the primary reason for a drastic lowering in confidence of the Government from 1973-1976?

• Normalization of relations with China
• Explosion aboard Apollo 13
• Watergate scandal
• Nuclear-power accident at 3 Mile Island

Huge decrease in gas during the 1970s was because of?

• dissolution of Standard Oil Company
• oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
• the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline
• an embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Gasoline rationing stamps were printed in 1970s for reason?

• economic collapse of the Soviet Union
• shortage of consumer goods globally
• economic deflation caused by trade
• embargo organized by OPEC

Detente means?

• Heating up of foreign aggression
• Thawing out between Cold War opponents
• Disagreement between US and China
• Agreeing to a ceasefire secretly

Which agreement "ENDED" the Arms Race

• PEPE
• SALT
• HUAC
• OPEC

What caused President Nixon to leave the Presidency?

• Pentagon Papers
• Impeachment
• Watergate Scandal
• Affirmative Action

What group does Affirmative Action help?

• Women
• Minorities
• Veterns
• Immigrants

Pentagon Papers exposed what?

• Nixon's corruption
• Election fraud from Senators
• Vietnam War secrets
• Atomic Bomb testing