1970s and 1980s Graded Quizizz

This photograph is a result of -

• US involvement in the Vietnam War

• an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by the Exxon Valdez

• an embargo on the United States by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

• U.S. involvement in the Korean War

The ​ (a)   resulting from the Vietnam War, plus President Ni​xon's involvement in the​ (b)   resulted in ​ (c)   of trust in the federal government.

• credibility gap
• Watergate Scandal
• a loss
• an increase

Sandra Day O'Connor

• first female elected to serve as governor

• first woman named to US Supreme Court

• first woman nominated as candidate for vice president

• first female member of the US Senate

Which factor links all these modern innovations?

• products created for use in the communications industry

• they include materials grown on experimental farms in the late 19th century

• they include technology developed for the US space program

• they are special tools created for transportation workers in the early 20th century

Match the following

• created the Environmental Protection Agency

• Ronald Reagan

• created the Department of Energy

• Gerald Ford

• cut taxes and reduced government regulation

• Richard Nixon

• pardoned his predecessor

• Jimmy Carter

Put these events in order.

• US allows the exiled shah of Iran to enter for medical treatment

• sanctions and a rescue mission attempted

• revolutionaries kidnap a group of US citizens in Iran

• hostages released when new president takes office

• failed attempts to retrieve hostages severely damages US prestige

President Jimmy Carter attempted to end hostilities between the groups that fought these wars by ​​ (a)  

• negotiating the Camp David Accords
• deploying US troops to defeat the PLO
• boycotting the Olympics in Moscow
• severing diplomatic ties with Syria

​ Gas prices ​ (a)   in the 1970s and early 1980s because conflicts in the ​ (b)   disrupted the ​ (c)   of ​ (d)  

• spiked
• Middle East
• distribution
• oil
• slumped
• Iberian Peninsula

Which situation caused President Nixon to introduce this project?

• illegal sale of weapons to Iran

• Iraqi invasion of Kuwaiti oil fields

• OPEC oil embargo

• fall of Saigon

These are all examples of ​ (a)  

• technologies developed for space flight
• programs to monitor national security
• research conducted by the EPA
• testing by the Federal Civil Defense Initiative