USH ET - SSUSH22a Foreign Policy: Nixon, Ford, Carter

What did the Wars Power Act (1973) seek to do?

• Authorize the president to send troops to defend South Vietnam

• Authorize the president to keep U.S. Forces on the Korean Peninsula after the Korean War?

• Limit the president's ability to send troops overseas without the approval of Congress

• Provide the president with special powers to deal with the emergency hostage crisis in Iran.

What was the impact of Jimmy Carter's work at the Camp David Accords?

• It established Israel as the leader of Middle East Nations

• It ended of OPEC oil embargo and stopped stagflation

• It established the U.S. as a leader of the free world

• Egypt recognized Israel and Israel made peace with Egypt

What was the response in Tehran to the US helping the former Shah of Iran in 1979?

• The new government of Iran declared war on the U.S.

• The embassy was attacked and 52 people were taken hostage

• The Shah of Iran was put back in power

• Iran invaded Israel and Iraq who were US allies

Nixon's visit to ___ in 1972 to begin normalizing relations was a reversal of previous American policy established in 1949.

• the Soviet Union

• China

• East Germany

• Vietnam

The Camp David Accords were an agreement between ___ and Israel.

• Egypt

• China

• Syria

• Iran

This agreement was a major foreign policy achievement of Ford's presidency.

• SALT I

• SALT II

• Camp David Accords

• Helsinki Accords

The Camp David Accords promoted by President Jimmy Carter were significant because they represented 

• the end of the Vietnam War
• a lasting arms-reduction treaty
• the first peace agreement between Israel and an Arab nation
• the establishment of a worldwide human rights policy on the issue of statehood

In 1979, the Iran Hostage Crisis involved a mob of Islamist revolutionaries who overran the U.S. embassy and took embassy workers hostage in protest of

• U.S. detainment of Iranian diplomats in New York on charges of espionage
• the sale of U.S. military equipment to Iraq.
• U.S. naval movements in the Strait of Hormuz.
• perceived attempts by the United States to undermine the Iranian Revolution.

In 1979, the Iran Hostage Crisis involved a mob of Islamist revolutionaries who overran the U.S. embassy and took embassy workers hostage in protest of

• U.S. detainment of Iranian diplomats in New York on charges of espionage
• the sale of U.S. military equipment to Iraq.
• U.S. naval movements in the Strait of Hormuz.
• perceived attempts by the United States to undermine the Iranian Revolution.

One reason many Americans opposed U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam was that

• communism should be allowed to spread in Asia
• the conflict was considered a civil war and did not concern the United States
• the conflict should be resolved by the Soviet Union
• the war was causing problems for Europe