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Ch. 1
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Multiple Choice
1) During the 1970s, the women's movement in the United States
a) continued to experience internal divisions.
b) achieved ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
c) evolved into a unified organization.
d) generated little support for women's causes.
2) As leaders among Mexican Americans during the 1960s and 1970s, Rodolfo "Corky"
Gonzles, Reis Lpez Tijerina, and Jos Angel Gutirrez did all of the following
except
a) press for return of land taken from Mexicans years earlier.
b) participate in political protest movements.
c) support the war in Vietnam with enthusiasm.
d) engage in confrontational activities with the authorities.
3) Between 1961 and 1976, the typical American voter most likely would have
a) rejected the liberalism of the New Deal.
b) became slowly disillusioned with the government's economic and foreign
policies.
c) remained committed to the Democratic party.
d) experienced little change in the political role of the United States either at home
or abroad.
4) The "southern strategy" of the Republican Party during the 1970s refers to the party's
a) determination to impose integration in the South by force, if necessary.
b) support of southern demands for increased busing of black students to white
schools in the North.
c) attempt to attract conservative political support.
d) plans to move the capital to Texas.
5) In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association ruled that
a) homosexuality was not as serious as psychosis.
b) homosexuality should no longer be classified as a mental illness.
c) homosexuals could become licensed psychiatrists.
d) homosexuality was not necessarily the result of improper parenting.
6) The idea of the feminine mystique implied that women
a) should be more assertive.
b) were not different from men.
c) should have equality within American society.
d) had a special role in society.
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7) By the early 1970s, rock music and television began to abandon traditional values in
order to deal with all of the following themes except
a) romantic love.
b) social conflict.
c) drugs and mysticism.
d) anger and rebelliousness.
8) In the 1970s and 1980s, Hispanic-Americans from specific countries in Latin
America tended to live together in certain parts of the United States. Those national
groups which were especially large in numbers included all of the following except
a) Mexicans living in California.
b) Cubans living in Florida.
c) Panamanians living in Massachusetts.
d) Puerto Ricans living in New York.
9) In rejecting the concept of the melting pot, many minority groups began to argue
for all of the following ideas except
a) a culturally pluralist society.
b) affirmative action programs.
c) ethnic studies programs.
d) minority assimilation.
10) Radical feminists of the 1970s and 1980s advocated
a) all of the answers below.
b) assaulting the male power structure.
c) rejecting the notion of marriage and family.
d) abandoning sex between men and women.
11) During the 1970s and 1980s, the status of women improved in all of the following
ways except
a) women began to compete effectively for elective and appointive political offices.
b) women attained considerable new success in academic fields.
c) women achieved the economic position of equal pay for equal work.
d) women gained acceptance in some previously all-male fields.
12) Although Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, the amendment
finally died because
a) the Democratic party reversed its support.
b) women displayed an increasing indifference to equal rights.
c) Congress failed to pass the measure by the required two-thirds majority.
d) the time for ratification by the states expired.
13) As a result of the SALT I talks of 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union
agreed that they would
a) not create any new nuclear weapons system.
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b) destroy some of their nuclear weapons.
c) limit their total number of ICBMs, but not their number of nuclear
warheads.
d) cease building all nuclear weapons.
14) The Nixon-Kissinger policy toward the Third World, as expressed in the Nixon
Doctrine, signified that
a) Third World countries would receive substantial financial support from the United
States.
b) U.S. interests in the Third World had declined.
c) the U.S. would attempt to establish stronger political alliances with Third World
countries.
d) the U.S. would support left-wing governments in Third World countries.
15) American actions in the settlement of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 resulted in
a) censure of the United States by the United Nations.
b) the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Jordan.
c) an oil embargo against the United States by the Arab nations.
d) the closing of the Suez Canal.
16) The Jewish state of Israel is surrounded by all of the following Arab countries except
a) Egypt.
b) Jordan.
c) Iraq.
d) Syria.
17) In 1973, for the first time since World War II, the United States faced
a) increasing competition from OPEC countries in oil sales.
b) declining gasoline prices.
c) an insufficient fuel supply.
d) decreasing dependence on oil imports from the Middle East and Africa.
18) In the late 1960s, American manufacturers, particularly those in steel and
automobiles, began to face additional competition from
a) Western Europe and Japan.
b) Japan and Eastern Europe.
c) Eastern Europe and Latin America.
d) Latin America and Western Europe.
19) Nixon's policies for curbing inflation included all of the following except
a) wage and price controls.
b) devaluation of the dollar.
c) a sharp rise in interest rates.
d) a significant increase in U.S. oil production.
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20) During the Nixon administration, the U.S. suffered from all of the following
economic problems except
a) high inflation.
b) high unemployment.
c) excessive GNP growth rates.
d) trade deficits.
21) By the time Nixon became president, the power structure of the federal government
had changed, so that the
a) federal bureaucracy had become swollen and unresponsive to the president.
b) president had lost the power to veto legislation.
c) Supreme Court had become excessively powerful and unresponsive to the needs
of the president.
d) House White staff had decreased both in number and influence.
22) During the 1980s, conservatives capitalized on changing political techniques in all of
the following ways except using
a) brief "sound bites to establish positions.
b) open-ended press conferences to allow full discussion of the issues.
c) negative ads to attack an opponent's character.
d) enormous fund-raising to finance campaigns.
23) In the 1970s, Americans experienced the "age of limits," a period of lowered
expectations characterized by all of the following problems except
a) economic decay.
b) defeat in Vietnam.
c) the Watergate crisis.
d) loss of hope.
24) Among the major accomplishments of the Ford Administration was
a) all of the answers below.
b) a significant decline in the inflation rate.
c) the signing of an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union.
d) the prosecution of former President Nixon for crimes committed while in office.
25) One of the major contributing factors to the rising inflation of the Ford administration
during the 1970s was
a) dependence on foreign oil supplies.
b) a major cut in tax rates.
c) a sharp drop in interest rates.
d) a significant decrease in federal spending.
26) By the end of the Carter administration, the economy was plagued by all of the
following economic conditions except
a) unemployment in excess of 10 percent.
b) inflation running at over 10 percent.
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c) interest rates near 20 percent.
d) a major fuel shortage.
27) President Carters diplomatic efforts in relieving the tensions between Egypt and
Israel resulted in
a) the return of the West Bank to the Palestinian Arabs.
b) an initial movement towards peace but an inability to formulate a final peace
treaty.
c) an agreement to reduce tensions by placing U. N. troops on the West Bank.
d) a formal peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
28) The Salt II arms control agreement met with opposition from conservatives in the
Senate because
a) the Senate had not been consulted on the formulation of the treaty.
b) it would take control of defense spending away from Congress.
c) of a lingering and fundamental distrust of the Soviet Union.
d) there was no limit on the number of long-range missiles, bombers, or nuclear
warheads that the Soviets could have.
29) In response to the Iranian hostage crisis, President Carter took the action of
a) sending a Marine division to the capital of Iran.
b) returning the Shah of Iran to Iran in exchange for the hostages.
c) negotiating the release of the hostages after more than a year of captivity.
d) getting the Soviet Union to intervene in Iran on behalf of the hostages.
30) The conservative populists of the Southeast and Southwest that rose to prominence in
the late 1970s and early 1980s supported all of the following political concepts
except
a) opposition to the growth of government.
b) commitment to the protection of minority rights.
c) resentment of the proliferating environmental laws.
d) support of the virtues of the rugged individual.
31) As the New Right developed in the 1970s and 1980s, it opposed the activities of men
such as
a) Gerald Ford.
b) Barry Goldwater.
c) Ronald Reagan.
d) Jesse Helms.
True-False
32) A follower of Betty Friedan probably would oppose the Equal Rights Amendment to
the Constitution.
a) True
b) False
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33) Many of the women who opposed the feminist movement in the United States during
the 1970s believed that the movement was contemptuous of those women who
preferred the traditional role in American society.
a) True
b) False
34) Unlike women and blacks, Hispanics in the United States during the 1970s made few
attempts to organize in order to improve their conditions within American society.
a) True
b) False
Short Answer
Answer Choices: Afghanistan, Anwar Sadat, eastern establishment, embargo, Gerald Ford, hippies,
Jimmy Carter, John Anderson, Leonid Brezhnev, Mao Zedong, melting pot, Nelson Rockefeller,
pardon, Ronald Reagan, stagflation, Sunbelt, Walter Mondale.
35) Vietnam exiles began to return to the United States after President Jimmy Carter
issued pardons for draft resisters and a limited amnesty for deserters.
36) Advocating a culturally pluralistic society where various ethnic identities would be
recognized, Asian-Americans, Indians, and Hispanics rejected the melting pot
premise of societal development.
37) South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese armies in 1975, during the presidency of
Gerald Ford.
38) One of the greatest steps toward achieving dtente with the Soviet Union was the visit
to America by that country's premier, Leonid Brezhnev, in 1973.
39) In the 1960s and 1970s, economists invented the word stagflation to refer to the
condition of the economy when inflation is high, unemployment is high, and the gross
national product is not growing very much.
40) America faced serious difficulties in 1974 when the Arab nations imposed an oil
embargo.
41) Richard M. Nixon received "a full, free, and absolute pardon" from President Gerald
Ford.
42) The death of Mao Zedong in 1976 brought a new government to power in China that
was eager to expand its ties with the United States.
43) In 1976, the incumbent president had a hard-fought battle with Ronald Reagan for
the Republican nomination for the office.
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44) As president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat tried to bring peace to the Middle East by
negotiating a settlement with Israel.
45) Jimmy Carter said that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the gravest threat to
world peace since World War II.
46) The areas of the South that grew in economic and political power during the 1960s
and 1970s acquired the new name of the Sunbelt.
47) When Gerald Ford became president after the resignation of Richard Nixon, he
appointed Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him as vice president.
48) John Anderson was a moderate Republican who launched an independent campaign
for president in 1980.
49) The New Right hated what they called the eastern establishment, a group of
wealthy, liberal people and institutions they believed ruled the country while ignoring
the wishes of the people.
50) Jimmy Carter chose Walter Mondale, Senator from Minnesota as his Vice
Presidential running mate in the Election of 1976.