Counterculture-Nixon-Ford-Carter

Question 0

the ___ reaction to the counterculture helped elect Richard Nixon

Answer 0

conservative

Question 1

this movement included mostly white, middle class college youths and it’s most lasting impact was on lifestyles, social behavior, art and music

Answer 1

counterculture

Question 2

a main goal of ___ was to find spiritual enlightenment

Answer 2

hippies

Question 3

he was a leader if the pop art movement and attempted to criticize the conventional lifestyle of the mass culture through commercial-looking images

Answer 3

Andy Warhol

Question 4

a San Francisco district that became the “capital” of the hippie counterculture during the 1960s

Answer 4

Haight-Ashbury

Question 5

the ___ helped create the counterculture and the protest that accompanied it provided the foundation for various rights groups (African American, Latino, women) that followed it

Answer 5

Vietnam War

Question 6

the deaths if ____ and Jimi Hendrix made people realize drugs were deadly and led to the decline of the counterculture

Answer 6

Janis Joplin

Question 7

a free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969

Answer 7

Woodstock

Question 8

a British band that had an enormous influence on popular music in the 1960s

Answer 8

Beatles

Question 9

Harvard psychology professor who told people to “tune in, turn on, drop out”

Answer 9

Timothy Leary

Question 10

some hippies turned to ____ to attain enlightenment without the use of drugs

Answer 10

Zen Buddhism

Question 11

Nixon’s policy to reduce the size and power of federal government by giving more power to the states

Answer 11

new federalism

Question 12

Nixon normalize relations with this nation and reversed US policy that had been in place since 1949

Answer 12

China

Question 13

Nixon ordered the attorney general Eliot Richardson to fire the special prosecutor Archibald Cox

Answer 13

Saturday Night Massacre

Question 14

he became president after Nixon resigned. he also pardoned Nixon about a month later

Answer 14

Gerald Ford

Question 15

this have state and local governments more control over spending federal dollars

Answer 15

revenue sharing

Question 16

Nixon’s plan to encourage discontented democrats to vote for him. one part of this plan involved criticizing the court-ordered busing of children

Answer 16

southern strategy

Question 17

Nixon’s welfare proposal that was approved by the house but defeated in the senate

Answer 17

family assistance program (FAP)

Question 18

Nixon temporarily used these to fight stagflation

Answer 18

wage and price controls

Question 19

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were reporters for the ___ who investigated and wrote about the Watergate scandal

Answer 19

Washington Post

Question 20

Nixon’s efforts to ease Cold War tensions and use negotiation

Answer 20

détente

Question 21

Nixon wanted to improve relations with china in order to put pressure on this nation to cooperate with the US

Answer 21

Soviet Union

Question 22

the ___ were a group that investigated Nixon’s enemies, broke into DNC headquarters. many of them had CIA training

Answer 22

plumbers

Question 23

although unrelated to Watergate the resignation of Nixon’s Vice President, ___, caused Nixon’s approval ratings to drop. about this same time it became known that Nixon had been taping Oval Office conversations

Answer 23

Spiro Agnew

Question 24

foreign policy based on consideration of a nations power rather than ideals or moral principals

Answer 24

realpolitik

Question 25

a economic association of oil producing nations that is able to set oil prices

Answer 25

OPEC

Question 26

treaty to limit nuclear weapons that was signed by the US and USSR during the Nixon administration

Answer 26

Salt 1

Question 27

a group that ran Nixon’s re-election campaign that was also linked to the break-in at DNC headquarters

Answer 27

CREEP

Question 28

in this speech Carter urged Americans to conserve energy but also spoke about a crisis in Americans’ spirit. shortly after this Carter had his entire cabinet resign and his popularity dropped

Answer 28

Malaise

Question 29

Carter’s foreign policy was marked by a strong commitment to this

Answer 29

human rights

Question 30

the ___ was an agreement between Israel and Egypt and Carter’s greatest foreign policy achievement

Answer 30

Camp David Accords

Question 31

Watergate’s most lasting effect was public ___ about government

Answer 31

cynicism

Question 32

___ was Ford’s unsuccessful plan to deal with rising prices by conserving energy. a major problem was that it offered no incentives to conserve

Answer 32

whip inflation now (WIN)

Question 33

when the ___ was overthrown the Ayatollah Khomeini took charge and led an Islamic revolution

Answer 33

Shah of Iran

Question 34

this war occurred when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on a Jewish holy day. the US backed Israel but was later the target of an Arab oil boycott

Answer 34

Yom Kippur

Question 35

when this nation was invaded by the Soviet Union, Carter blocked food shipments to the USSR and ordered a boycott of the Olympic games

Answer 35

Afghanistan

Question 36

Ford had difficulty being an effective president because the democratic congress blocked his policies. to fight back Ford used this more than 50 times

Answer 36

veto

Question 37

during the 1970s, during both the Ford and Carter administrations, the US economy was hurt by too much dependence on ___

Answer 37

foreign oil

Question 38

this occurred when a mob seized the US embassy in Iran. it overwhelmed the Carter administration and was a major factor in Carter’s failure to win re-election

Answer 38

hostage crisis

Question 39

in foreign policy Nixon emphasized realpolitik whereas ___ emphasized human rights

Answer 39

Carter

Question 40

after public trust was shaken by the Watergate scandal President ___ tied to restore public trust in government

Answer 40

Ford

Question 41

these agreement stressed economic, scientific, and humanitarian cooperation in Europe and represented Ford’s greatest foreign policy achievement

Answer 41

Helsinki Accords

Question 42

one consequence of the ___ hostage crisis was that threats posed by the Middle East became a much bigger challenge for the United States

Answer 42

Iran

Question 43

soviet leader who signed the Helsinki Accords with President Ford

Answer 43

Leonid Brezhnev