Chapter 30 Political Storms

Question 1

What percentage of military inductees were college students during the Vietnam War?

Answer 1

2

Question 2

The Nixon Doctrine implied a foreign policy that was shaped more by:

Answer 2

realism and American interests.

Question 3

Nixon’s “southern strategy” involved winning southern support by:

Answer 3

capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs.

Question 4

The “silent majority”:

Answer 4

supported politicians like Richard Nixon.

Question 5

By 1960–1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:

Answer 5

the example of the civil rights movement.

Question 6

The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

Answer 6

failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment.

Question 7

The hippie movement ultimately:

Answer 7

began to wane as the counterculture had become counterproductive.

Question 8

Nixon’s Watergate-related resignation came with the revelation that he had:

Answer 8

ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in.

Question 9

To punish the United States for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries:

Answer 9

threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States.

Question 10

Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he:

Answer 10

pardoned Nixon.

Question 11

T or F: George S. McGovern was an anti-war senator from South Dakota.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The Vietnam settlement signed on January 27, 1973:

Answer 12

left 150,000 Communist troops in South Vietnam.

Question 13

Nixon’s trip to the Soviet Union resulted in:

Answer 13

some limits on future missile construction.

Question 14

Use of the term Hispanic indicated:

Answer 14

growing political assertiveness among Mexican Americans.

Question 15

T or F: President Nixon strongly supported court efforts to complete school desegregation.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

At the Altamont concert in 1969:

Answer 16

the Hells Angels killed a man in front of the stage.

Question 17

T or F: In 1968, students managed to shut down Columbia University.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The figure who most influenced Nixon’s foreign policy was:

Answer 18

Henry Kissinger.

Question 19

In April 1970, Nixon extended the war when he sent troops into:

Answer 19

Cambodia.

Question 20

Economists coined the term stagflation in the early 1970s to describe:

Answer 20

simultaneously a stagnant economy with inflationary prices.

Question 21

The youths of the counterculture:

Answer 21

originated when Tom Hayden formed Students for a Democratic Society in 1960.

Question 22

T or F: In 1960, unemployment among Native Americans was ten times the national average, their life expectancy was twenty years lower, and their suicide rate was 100 times greater.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Nixon’s new relationship with China was made possible by:

Answer 23

China’s growing fear of the Soviet Union.

Question 24

By the end of 1970, the unemployment rate in the United States:

Answer 24

nearly doubled.

Question 25

In 1964, students at the University of California at Berkeley:

Answer 25

protested for freedom of political expression.

Question 26

Nixon’s policy of “Vietnamization” involved:

Answer 26

gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam.

Question 27

In its earliest years, the gay rights movement especially emphasized:

Answer 27

the importance of gays “coming out.”