Question 1

Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in October 1973 after pleading "no contest" to income tax evasion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

All of the following were undertaken under the Nixon administration regarding the environment except

Accepted Answer

A) creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
B) the federal government officially sponsoring Earth Day. 
C) passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970. 
D) expanding national parks and wilderness areas. 
E) passage of the Endangered species Act of 1973. 
A) creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
B) the federal government officially sponsoring Earth Day. 
C) passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970. 
D) expanding national parks and wilderness areas. 
E) passage of the Endangered species Act of 1973.

Question 3

The Great Society was never controversial.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Nixon's decision to revise the nation's welfare programs came at the urging of his chief adviser on domestic policy,____________________.

Accepted Answer

Daniel Pat

Question 5

The opponent to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election was

Accepted Answer

A) Edmund Muskie. 
B) Lyndon Johnson. 
C) Edward Kennedy. 
D) Jimmy Carter. 
E) George McGovern. 
A) Edmund Muskie. 
B) Lyndon Johnson. 
C) Edward Kennedy. 
D) Jimmy Carter. 
E) George McGovern.

Question 6

The "Great Society" usually is associated with the presidency of John F.Kennedy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The Communist guerrilla force in Cambodia was called the ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The Communist guerrilla force in Cambodia was...

Question 8

____________________ headed the South Vietnamese government when U.S.troops pulled out.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ headed the South Vietnamese government when...

Question 9

Martin Luther King,Jr.was assassinated in

Accepted Answer

A) Los Angeles. 
B) Chicago. 
C) Atlanta. 
D) Memphis. 
E) Dallas. 
A) Los Angeles. 
B) Chicago. 
C) Atlanta. 
D) Memphis. 
E) Dallas.

Question 10

Breaking into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist was the first "dirty trick" perpetrated by Richard Nixon's plumbers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

President Nixon signed no significant environment legislation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Student dissidents of the 1960s

Accepted Answer

A) abandoned the civil rights movement when the Vietnam War heated up. 
B) were mostly Communists who hoped to destroy capitalism in the United States. 
C) held "teach-ins" and draft-card burnings to protest the rigidity of U.S.institutions and traditions. 
D) came mostly from the lower socioeconomic strata of American society. 
E) supported U.S.foreign policy. 
A) abandoned the civil rights movement when the Vietnam War heated up. 
B) were mostly Communists who hoped to destroy capitalism in the United States. 
C) held "teach-ins" and draft-card burnings to protest the rigidity of U.S.institutions and traditions. 
D) came mostly from the lower socioeconomic strata of American society. 
E) supported U.S.foreign policy.

Question 13

James Earl Ray was convicted of killing Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

During Richard Nixon's first year in office,the percentage of federal funds spent on domestic programs

Accepted Answer

A) remained unchanged. 
B) decreased dramatically. 
C) fell to zero. 
D) decreased slightly. 
E) increased steadily. 
A) remained unchanged. 
B) decreased dramatically. 
C) fell to zero. 
D) decreased slightly. 
E) increased steadily.

Question 15

Richard Nixon won a landslide victory in 1968.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Phyllis Schlafly led opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Ronald Reagan campaigned for Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Vietnamization refers to

Accepted Answer

A) LBJ's commitment to escalating US involvement in Vietnam. 
B) the use of napalm in Vietnam. 
C) the psychological impact of returning veterans from Vietnam. 
D) Nixon's policy to withdraw from Vietnam. 
E) the influence of Ho Chi Minh on the American Communist Party. 
A) LBJ's commitment to escalating US involvement in Vietnam. 
B) the use of napalm in Vietnam. 
C) the psychological impact of returning veterans from Vietnam. 
D) Nixon's policy to withdraw from Vietnam. 
E) the influence of Ho Chi Minh on the American Communist Party.

Question 19

The Johnson administration's sustained campaign of bombing in North Vietnam was code-named ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The Johnson administration's sustained campaign of bombing...

Question 20

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Rachel Carson

Accepted Answer

author of Silent Spring.Raised

Exam 29: America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974

Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in October 1973 after pleading "no contest" to income tax evasion.

All of the following were undertaken under the Nixon administration regarding the environment except

The Great Society was never controversial.

Nixon's decision to revise the nation's welfare programs came at the urging of his chief adviser on domestic policy,____________________.

The opponent to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election was

The "Great Society" usually is associated with the presidency of John F.Kennedy.

The Communist guerrilla force in Cambodia was called the ____________________.

____________________ headed the South Vietnamese government when U.S.troops pulled out.

Martin Luther King,Jr.was assassinated in

Breaking into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist was the first "dirty trick" perpetrated by Richard Nixon's plumbers.

President Nixon signed no significant environment legislation.

Student dissidents of the 1960s

James Earl Ray was convicted of killing Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.

During Richard Nixon's first year in office,the percentage of federal funds spent on domestic programs

Richard Nixon won a landslide victory in 1968.

Phyllis Schlafly led opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.

Ronald Reagan campaigned for Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Vietnamization refers to

The Johnson administration's sustained campaign of bombing in North Vietnam was code-named ____________________.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Rachel Carson

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, conquest, catastrophe

The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America

England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, liberty, and Expansion

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Reform, resistance, revolution

The Revolutionary Republic

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture

Whigs and Democrats

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery

The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920

Progressivism

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

War and Society, 1914-1920

The 1920s

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

America During the Second World War

The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

Economic, social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century

A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2012

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