1970s Presidents Nixon/Ford/Carter

What was one of President Nixon's goals for the meeting shown in this photograph?

• To negotiate the withdrawal of U.S. and Chinese soldiers from Korea

• To create a military alliance with China against the Soviet Union

• To create an agreement limiting Chinese and Soviet development of nuclear weapons

• To normalize relations between the United States and China

Read the list and answer the question that follows: - Growth of social media - Increased use of cell phones - Election of first African American president Which time period is represented by this information?

• 1970s

• 1980s

• 1990s

• 2000s

Study the photograph and answer the question that follows: How did the U.S. government work to change this situation?

• By encouraging the development of alternative forms of fuel

• By increasing the speed limit on interstate highways

• By decreasing funding for electrical power stations

• By discouraging exploration for fossil fuels

These gasoline rationing stamps were printed beginning in January 1974, but were never used. Which situation led the U.S. government to print these coupons?

• The economic collapse of the Soviet Union caused by increased defense spending

• A shortage of consumer goods following the end of a global conflict

• Economic deflation caused by increased trade globalization

• An embargo organized by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

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 caused the Energy Crisis that started in the 1970s?

• The BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast

• The oil embargo by OPEC

• New regulation against fracking

• The Iran-Iraq War

What was Nixon's policy to ease tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

• containment

• Strength through Peace

• détente

• entente

In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The Carter administration tried unsuccessfully to negotiate for the hostages release. On January 20, 1981, the day Carter left office, Iran released the Americans, ending their 444 days in captivity.

• Iran Contra Affair

• OPEC Hostage Crisis

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Tehran Hostage Crisis

The Camp David Accords was-

• peace treaty to end the Cold war

• agreement between the U.S and Middle eastern nations to lift the oil embargo by OPEC.

• peace agreement negotiated by Carter between Israel & Egypt

• agreement to protect Middle Eastern countries from Soviet rule