Chapter 21 Pre-Test

During the 1968 Presidential Election Richard Nixon created a strategy help him win the vote in what area of the United States?

• The North

• The East

• The West

• The South

Upon being elected Richard Nixon became known as the:

• Peace and Prosperity President

• Law and Order President

• Soft Spoken President

• Smart and Savvy President

Nixon and Henry Kissinger created what principle that "allowed for a gradual withdrawal with simultaneously training local fighter to defend themselves"

• Vietnamization

• Linkage

• New Federalism

• Foreign Imperialism

Richard Nixon is the only president to resign from office due to a scandal happening at what building?

• Lincoln Monument

• The Oval Office

• Watergate

• Freedom Hill

During the 1970's an embargo or prohibiting the shipment of what good?

• Petroleum

• Bananas

• Foreign Cars

• Technological Secrets

Upon Nixon resigning from Office Gerald Ford took office, who beat Ford in the Presidential election two years later?

• Ronald Reagan

• Jimmy Carter

• George H. W. Bush

• Spiro T. Agnew

The Camp David Accords was a historic peace treaty signed between which two nations?

• The United States and Soviet Union

• Jordan and Chad

• England and China

• Israel and Egypt

This key term called for companies, schools, and institutions doing business with the federal government to recruit and hire African Americans.

• Civil Rights Act of 1972

• Affirmative Action

• Title XII

• Section 504

The Three Mile Island nuclear failure outside of what city was an environmental scare:

• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

• Detroit, Michigan

• Cleveland, Ohio

• Raleigh, North Carolina

This term means the relaxation of tensions between the United States and two major Communist Rivals, the Soviets and the Chinese

• Brinkmanship

• Mass Retatliation

• Détente

• Containment