Nixon - Clinton Review 2025

Which nation took American hostages in the late 1970s causing an international incident?

• Iran

• Iraq

• Afghanistan

• North Korea

Which policy does the 1980s Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) best exemplify?

• Paying down the debt

• Supply Side Economics

• Contract with America

• Peace Through Strength

All of the following events happened during Richard Nixon’s term except…

• Environmental Agency creation

• Equal Rights Amendment fails to be adopted

• SALT agreement

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

When Richard Nixon visited both China and the Soviet Union it was an example of…

• Détente

• Vietnamization

• Peace through Strength

• Contract with America

What tool did OPEC use to punish the United States during the 1970s?

• An oil embargo

• Boycott of American goods

• Refusal to accept American dollars

• Increased inflation

What was the cause of the Contract with America?

• Election of a Republican majority in congress

• President Clinton’s re-election in 1996

• Reaganomics

• Peace Through Strength

What was the main cause of President Nixon’s resignation?

• Stagflation

• Watergate

• Operation Eagle Claw

• Iran Contra Affair

President George H.W. Bush most successful foreign policy campaign was...

• Invasion of Grenada

• Operation: Just Cause

• Desert Storm/Gulf War

• Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

What were the Camp David Accords addressing?

• Peace between Syria and Iraq

• Ending a border dispute between Iran and Iraq

• Carter brokering a settlement between Israel and Egypt

• Reagan pulling marines out of Lebanon after a terrorist bombing

Reaganomics, or supply side economics was trying to fix the problem of...

• Making sure business pay their fair share of taxes

• Stagflation, high unemployment and inflation

• Deflation, a lowering of prices in an economy

• Too many dollars chasing too few goods in the economy