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Operation Intercept

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did President Nixon announce the largest peacetime search and seizure operation in US history?

a)

Sept 16

b)

Sept 21

c)

Sept 8

d)

Sept 30

e)

September 31

2.

How long did Operation Intercept last?

a)

one week

b)

2 weeks

c)

3 weeks

d)

four weeks

e)

five weeks

3.

When the entire US-Mexican border was militarized, soldiers were called up from _____ to patrol the border.

a)

Fort Brown

b)

Fort Clark

c)

Fort Crockett

d)

Fort Bliss

e)

Fort McIntosh

4.

Nixon gave a speech because the US drug problem was out of hand and called for things like doubling border security. The name of this speech was ?

a)

The law and order speech

b)

The Checkers speech

c)

The Silent Majority speech

d)

The Watergate speech

e)

The Kitchen Cabinet speech

5.

One of the recommendations, for Operation Intercept, was to increase the size of the parking lots on the border so people would be easier to search.

a)

true

b)

false

6.
After being embarassed by Operation Intercept, Mexico organized a boycott on US goods called _____.
a)
Operation No Mames
b)
Operation Impact
c)
Operation Peinabombillas
d)
Operation Wetback
e)
Operation Dignity
7.
After the failure of Operation Intercept, the Nixon administration focused less on foreign interdiction and more on treatment and domestic programs.
a)
true
b)
false
8.
As an apology for Operation Intercept, the US offered to settle a border dispute by giving Mexico _____ acres of land in West Texas.
a)
250
b)
500
c)
750
d)
1000
e)
1250
9.
The Mexican foreign minister who called Operation Intercept the lowest point in his career was _____?
a)
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
b)
Antonio Carrillo Flores
c)
Luis Echeverría
d)
Julio Sanchez Vargas
e)
Eliseo Garcia Araujo
10.

One of Nixon's point people on Operation Intercept that is later implicated in the Watergate scandal is ____?

a)

Henry Kissinger

b)

Robert Henry McBride

c)

Edward Royball

d)

John Erhlichman

e)

William Fulbright