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During the Nixon administration, the Vietnam Var spread to

 

a. Thailand.

b. Indonesia.

c. communist China.

d. Cambodia.

Definition
d.
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the communist nation the grealty improved its relationship with the U.S. during the 1970s was

 

a. Cuba.

b. Vietnam.

c.Red China,

Noth Korea.

Definition
c.
Term

president Nixon's ''New federalism'' referred to

 

a. reverune sharing between federal and state governments.

 

b. agreater degree of authority in the hands o f the federal government.

 

c. a return to the economic philosophy of alexander Harmiltion.

 

d. the federal government's withdrawal fromstate matters.

Definition
a.
Term

Revelation of the My Lai Massacre

 

a. supported president Nixon's order to invade Cambodia.

b. caused the overthrow of the Diem regime in Vietnam.

 

c. forced the american public to face the war

s moral implications.

 

d. solidifired support for the contatinment of communism.

Definition
c.
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The first President to visit Red China while in office was

 

a. Harry Truman.

b. John Kennedy.

c. Lyndon Johnson.

d. Richard Nixon

Definition

 d.

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Nixon's primary advisor in foreign affairs was

 

a. Cyrus Vance.

b. Gerald Ford.

c. William Rogers.

d. Henry Kissinger.

Definition
d.
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Major riots occurred on college campuses in 1970 because of

 

a. inflation

b. unemployment.

c. racial tensions.

d. events in Southeast Asia.

Definition
d.
Term

The Nixon Doctrine declared

 

a. the U.S would no longer fight communism.

 

b. the U.S. would only fight communism in the Western Hemisphere.

 

c. the U.S would ask other nations to assum more of the responsibility to fight communism.

 

d. the U.S. would break diplomatic relations with all communist states.

Definition

c.

Term

The Pentagon Papers

 

a. revealed the government had been lying about U.S. successes in Vietnam.

 

b. established arms limitations with the Soviets.

c. revealed Nixon had tried to cover up Wategate.

d. suggested the U.S. should pull out of the Mideast.

Definition

a.

Term

President are limited in their ability to deploy troops overseas by the

 

a. Truman Doctrine.

b. Nixon Doctrine.

c. War Powers Act.

d. Peace Corps.

Definition
c.
Term

The Arab Oil Embaargo resulted form the U.S. support of

 

a. Israel.

b.the P.L.O.

c. Red China.

d the Soviet Union.

Definition
a.
Term

The communist leader of Chile whom the Nixon administration helped overthrow in 1973 was

 

a. Salvador Allende.

b. Fidel Castro.

c. Augusto Pinochet

d. Cesar chavez.

 

Definition
a
Term

The Supreme court decision that ordered busing in 1971 to achieve school integration was

 

a. The Brown decision.

b. Plessy v. Ferguson.

c.Roe. V. wade

d. Swann V. Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

 

Definition
d.
Term

In the 1970s Cesar chavez headed the

 

a. La Raza party

b. N.A.A.C.P.

c. Brown Berets.

d. United Farm Workers.

 

Definition
d.
Term

In 1973 Native Americans seized what site of an 1890 massacre?

 

a. Alcatraz

b. Wounded Knee

c. Sand Creek

d. Staten Island

Definition
b.
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