Lbj - Carter

Which of the following was the primary reason for the trends in public confidence from 1973 to 1976?

• The normalization of relations with China

• The explosion aboard Apollo 13

• The Watergate scandal

• The nuclear-power accident at Three Mile Island

This US President inherits a bad economy (stagflation), ineffectively deals with the Iran Hostage Crisis and returns the Panama Canal to Panama.

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• George HW Bush

What prompted Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution?

• Rulings issued by the Supreme Court that banned deployment of U.S. combat forces without a declaration of war.

• Fears that renewed conflict in the Middle East would require the United States to defend Israel.

• Decisions made by the executive branch during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

• Limits on the authority of the chief executive imposed by an international tribunal.

Shifting the burden of actual combat from American troops to S. Vietnamese forces.

• Vietminization

• Vietcong

• Internationalism

• Linkage

Which of these was a major foreign policy failure during the Carter presidency?

• American hostages taken in Iran

• loss of Panama to the Soviet Union

• failure to foster peace in the Middle East

• failure to protect West Berlin from communism

How did President Jimmy Carter attempt to end hostilities between the groups that fought these wars?

• He helped negotiate a peace treaty known as the Camp David Accords.

• He deployed U.S. troops to defeat the Palestine Liberation Organization.

• He ordered the boycott of Olympic games in Moscow.

• He threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Syria.

What was the major foreign policy focus of Carter's Presidency?

• Carter committed to making human rights the basis of U.S. foreign policy

• Carter committed to stopping communism in Asia and Central America

• Carter increased imperialism and took territory in the Pacific Ocean

• Carter committed to creating trade treaties with Europe and the Middle East

Jimmy Carter’s presidency was strongly influenced by ​​ (a)   issues. He tried to bring peace to the Middle East and, in the ​​ (b)   , negotiated a peace agreement between the Egyptian president and the Israeli prime minister at Camp David (a presidential retreat in Maryland) in 1978. This was the first time there had been a signed peace agreement between Middle Eastern nations. Although the agreement left many differences unresolved, it did solve urgent problems facing the two nations. In 1978, the ​ (c)   replaced a shah (king) friendly to America with a Muslim religious leader unfriendly to America. When Carter let the Shah enter the United States for medical treatment, angry Iranian revolutionaries invaded the US Embassy in Iran and took 52 Americans captive. The Iranian hostage crisis lasted 444 days, until the captives were released after the election of ​ (d)   as president, and it nurtured ​ (e)   among Muslims around the world.

• international

• Camp David Accords

• Iranian Revolution

• Ronald Reagan

• anti-Americanism

• George H.W. Bush

• international cooperation

• rescue mission

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Which of these was a major foreign policy failure during the Carter presidency?

• American hostages taken in Iran

• loss of Panama to the Soviet Union

• failure to foster peace in the Middle East

• failure to protect West Berlin from communism

Which activities were major events of President Jimmy Carter’s administration?

• Iran Hostage Crisis, passage of the Camp David Accords

• Whitewater, passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement

• Collapse of the Soviet Union, Desert Storm

• Passage of Medicare, Vietnam