Nixon - Part 2

What significant event occurred on May 4, 1970?

• The signing of the Clean Air Act

• The first Earth Day

• The Massacre at Kent State

• The founding of Greenpeace

Which book is credited with inspiring the modern environmentalist movement?

• The Jungle

• Silent Spring

• Walden

• The Population Bomb

The Pentagon Papers were ordered by which Secretary of Defense?

• Robert McNamara

• Henry Kissinger

• Donald Rumsfeld

• Caspar Weinberger

The National Guard was called to Kent State by whom?

• The Governor of Ohio

• The President

• The Mayor

• The University Dean

In what year did Nixon campaign on Vietnamization?

• 1965

• 1968

• 1970

• 1972

Who was the first US President to visit China?

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Gerald Ford

The US recognized the Chinese government in Taiwan before 1949, which had lost the civil war to the ______.

• Republicans

• Democrats

• Communists

• Socialists

Who was Nixon's Vice President from January 1969 to December 1973?

• Spiro Agnew

• Thomas Eagleton

• George McGovern

• Richard Nixon

The Watergate Scandal involved a cover-up of a burglary at which location?

• White House

• Democratic offices

• Pentagon

• FBI Headquarters

Nixon's reelection campaign committed a crime seeking what?

• Financial gain

• Political information

• Military secrets

• Personal revenge