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Worksheetsextra credit Unit 9 part 1
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 18mins
Soviet Union and China
2 countries Nixon visited
Watergate
Scandal that ended Nixon's career
Woodward and Bernstein
2 Journalists that uncovered the Watergate Scandal
OPEC
Middle Eastern Cartel that controls 60% of the world's oil trade
Stagflation
High Unemployment and High Inflation
Camp David Accords
Peace agreement between Israel and Egypt
2nd agreement to limit nuclear weapons
SALT II
Iran Hostage Crisis
Americans taken hostage in Tehran
Panama Canal
President Carter agreed to return this to its country of origin
National Energy Act 1979
Mandated that cars become more fuel efficient and US less dependent on foreign oil
(a) and the (b) were two big domestic policies during Nixon's presidency.
Match the following president to one of the BIGGEST problems they were facing.
Lyndon Johnson
Vietnam
Richard Nixon
Watergate
John F. Kennedy
Cuba becoming communist
Franklin Roosevelt
Great Depression
Who became President immediately after Nixon left office?
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon Johnson
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Credit Check
Fake News
Credibility Gap
Credibility Old Navy
How did the oil embargo effect the U.S. during the 1970s?
The U.S. used its own energy reserves to fight the embargo
Prices of everything increased and gas shortages happened
The U.S. was forced to abandon Israel as prices went down
It caused the stagflation outbreak in the U.S.
What was the response in Tehran to the US helping the former Shah of Iran in 1979?
The new government of Iran declared war on the U.S.
The embassy was attacked and 52 people were taken hostage
The Shah of Iran was put back in power
Iran invaded Israel and Iraq who were US allies
What happened to the 52 captives of the Iran Hostage Crisis?
They were given to the Soviet Union and returned in 1987
They disappeared and were never seen from again
They were publicly executed in 1981 in Tehran
They were returned to the US 444 days after Reagan swore in as President
The Camp David Accords was-
peace treaty to end the Cold war
agreement between the U.S and Middle eastern nations to lift the oil embargo by OPEC.
peace agreement negotiated by Carter between Israel & Egypt
agreement to protect Middle Eastern countries from Soviet rule
The economic policies of Ronald Reagan: reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity
"Trickle down economics"/Reaganomics
The New Deal
Monroe Doctrine
Race to the Top
The Iran- Contra scandal sold weapons ILLEGALLY and gave the profits to
The Soviets
Sandinistas
Contras
Veterans
Which of the following is NOT part Reganomics
Budget cuts
Tax cuts
Increased defense spending
decreased defense spending
Which president would most likely agree with Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economic policies?
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
When the former Iranian leader - the Shah - was allowed to go to New York City for cancer treatments, it led to the ....
Cuban Missile Crisis
End of the Vietnam War
The Iranian Hostage Crisis
The Watergate Scandal
Lines at gas stations in the 1970s was most likely caused by...
the dissolution of Standard Oil Company
an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline
an embargo by OPEC
