Modern History

Which presidential action best represents the policy of détente?

•   George Bush’s military action to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait

• Lyndon B. Johnson’s escalation of the Vietnam War

• John F. Kennedy’s order for the Bay of Pigs invasion against Cuba

• Richard Nixon’s Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) with the Soviet Union

During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan used the ideas of supply-side economics to justify-   

• reductions in military spending

• tax cuts for businesses

• increases in social welfare spending

• expansion of the Social Security program

In the years since the Three Mile Island accident, the following have occurred EXCEPT-    

• Sixty nuclear power plants have shut down.

• No new facilities have been built since 1973.

• All nuclear power plants have been shut down.

• Many people have doubted the safety of nuclear energy.

What is one reason for the increase in worldwide oil prices since the 1970s?

• political unrest in the Middle East

• construction of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline

• doubling of tariffs on oil imports by the United States government

• promotion of conservation efforts by United States oil companies

President Richard Nixon’s foreign policy of détente was an attempt to-

• resolve Middle East conflicts

• improve relations with the Soviet Union

• defend United States interests in Latin America

• increase the power of the United Nations Security Council

President Bill Clinton supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) primarily as a way to-     

• normalize trade relations with Cuba

• increase the United States trade deficit

• stimulate economic growth in the United States

• restrict the flow of drugs into the United States

The demonstrators who occupied Tiananmen Square were calling for-       

• democracy.

• increased farm output. 

• the strengthening of communism.  

• a purging of bourgeois tendencies.

The programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty had goals which were most similar to the programs of-

• Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal

• Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom

• Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal

• Ronald Reagan’s New Federalism

President Richard Nixon chose to resign the presidency mainly because of his involvement in the-

• Watergate scandal

• escalation of the Vietnam War/Conflict

• secret bombing of Cambodia

• implementation of wage-price controls

During the Persian Gulf War (1991), the primary aim of the United States was to force Iraq to-

• increase the price of its oil exports

• hold democratic elections

• withdraw its troops from Kuwait

• submit to weapons inspections by the United Nations