70s Quiz

Question 1

War Powers Act

Answer 1

Limited the presidents ability to wage war without consent of legislative branch

Question 2

Title IX

Answer 2

Passed to end gender discrimination in fed funded programs (specifically school athletics)

Question 3

Vietnamization

Answer 3

Nixons “secret plan” to achieve “peace with honor”

Question 4

Who was the first president to visit communist China?

Answer 4

Nixon

Question 5

Stagflation

Answer 5

High inflation is coupled with high unemployment

Question 6

26th amendment

Answer 6

Made 18 the legal voting age

Question 7

Cesar Chavez

Answer 7

Used nonviolence to gain equality for Latinos

Question 8

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Answer 8

Attempt by USSR to play greater role in the Middle East

Question 9

Ayatollah Khomeini

Answer 9

Ruler of Iran 1979

Question 10

“Washington outsider”

Answer 10

Jimmy Carter

Question 11

Watergate scandal

Answer 11

Involved break in if Dem National HQs in DC

Question 12

Which two Middle East events was President Carter involved in?

Answer 12

Camp David Accords and Iranian Hostage Crisis