The Ford Carter Years

Question 1

What nightmare pursued insted?

Answer 1

The nation’s economic nightmare

Question 2

To many, what was Gerald Ford?

Answer 2

A likable and honest man

Question 3

After becoming vice president how did Ford announce his limitation

Question 4

On September 8th, what controversial move did the President make

Answer 4

He pardoned president Nixon for watergate. He attempted to move the country beyond water gate, but this cost him a great deal of support

Question 5

When the president pardoned Nixon, what did some people do?

Answer 5

They protested

Question 6

By the time Ford took office, what did America’s economy look like?

Answer 6

It had gone from bad to worse

Question 7

Which two things continued to rise

Question 8

What two things soared and why

Answer 8

Heating oil an dfasoline:: Because of the OPEC oil price increase

Question 9

When the oil costs soared, what percentage did it push inflation to

Answer 9

From 6 percent to 10 percent

Question 10

To cut inflation what program did the President respond with, and what did the program call for

Answer 10

He responded with a program called WIN or Whip Inflation Now. This called on Americans to cut back on their use of oi and gase and to take other energy saving measures

Question 11

What eventually happened to Win

Answer 11

it failed because there was an absensce of incentives

Question 12

What was another thing that president ford wanted to do curb inflation

Answer 12

Tighten Money. He cut government spending and encouraged the Federal Reserve Board to restrict credit through higher interest rates

Question 13

What did Gerald Ford urge Americans to do upon taking office?

Answer 13

He urged them to put the Watergate scandal behind them. “ our long national nightmar is over he declared.”

Question 14

When Ford wanted to restrict credit through hihgher interest rates, what happned

Answer 14

It sent the country in to the worset economic recession in 40 years.

Question 15

What did Ford Constantly battle

Answer 15

Democratic Congress intent on pushing its own agenda. Ford vetoed more than 50 pieces of legislation

Question 16

In what area did Ford fare better in and who did he rely on

Answer 16

H erelied a lot on Henry Kissinger who was the secretary of state

Question 17

With Kissinger’s advice what did Ford push forward with

Answer 17

The policy of negotiation of Chian and the Soviet Union

Question 18

In november 1974 who did Ford meet with

Answer 18

Leonid Brezhnev.

Question 19

Less than a year later in 1974 where did Ford travel and what did he sign

Answer 19

He traveled to Helsinki Finland where 35 nations including the Soviet Union signed the Helsinki accords which were a seeries of agreements that promised greater cooperation between Nations of Eastern and western europe. That would be Fords great presidential accomplishment

Question 20

Where did Ford encounter a lot of trouble

Answer 20

In South East Asia

Question 21

What had broken in Vietnam and what did Ford do

Answer 21

The 1973 cease fire agreement had broken, and so now heavy fighting resumed and Ford asked Congress for 722 million dollars which they refused

Question 22

Without America, South vietnam had no where to go. When did they eventually surrender

Answer 22

They eventually surrendered to the morth in 1975

Question 23

What happened to the US merchant shi Mayaguez

Answer 23

The Cambodian Government seized it,

Question 24

What did the president respond with when the Mayaguez was seized

Answer 24

A massive show of military force to rescue the 39 crew members aboard the ship. It took the lives of 41 people which critics use to point out and say it had cost more lives than it had svaed

Question 25

Who won the Republican nomination for president in 1976

Answer 25

Gerald Ford, the president. but he had to fend off a power conservator challeger: former cali governor Ronald Reagan

Question 26

Because republicans seemed to divide over Ford’s leadership, what did Democrats eye

Answer 26

The white house, duhh

Question 27

Who was the Democratic Nominee

Answer 27

Jimmy Carter. He was a former governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer

Question 28

During the post watergate era, what ran high towards the government

Answer 28

cynicism

Question 29

What was the promise and character of Jimmy Carter

Answer 29

He was soft spoken and plesent. He promised that he would restore integrity to the nation’s highest office

Question 30

What did Carter and Ford debate on

Answer 30

Unemployment, inflation, and energy

Question 31

On Election Day, who won and by how much

Answer 31

Jimmy Carter won by only 0.9 million

Question 32

From the beginning, what did the new first family bring to the white house

Answer 32

A down to earth style. Carter conducted fireside chats on radio and televison

Question 33

Even though he reached out to the people, who did Carter fail mainly to reach out to

Answer 33

Congres. He did not want to play te insider game of deal making. He relied on a team maily from Georgia and Carter even alienated congressional democrats

Question 34

When both Congressional parties joined together it was to

Answer 34

Sink the president’s budget proposals as well as his major policy reforms of tax and welfare programs

Question 35

What did Carter focus much of his energy on

Answer 35

Battling the country’s energy and economic crisis, but he was unable to bring the country out of the economic slum

Question 36

For the energy crisis, what did the President believe was thr problem

Answer 36

Reliance on foreign oil. ON April 18th, 1977 during a fireside chat he urged americans to cut their consumption of oil and gas

Question 37

How many bills did Carter present to Congrees

Answer 37

100 on energy conservation and development.

Question 38

Who fiercly lobbied oil producing measures?

Answer 38

States that produced oil. Automobile industries had previously boycotted the gas rationing provisions

Question 39

National Energy Act

Answer 39

Placed a tax on gas guzzling cars and removed price controls on oil and natural gas produced in the United States. Extended tax credits for the development of alternative energy. US dependence on foreign oil east a little

Question 40

What did these energy saving measures fail to combat?

Answer 40

The new economic crisis

Question 41

During the summer of 1979 what happened in the middle east

Answer 41

There was a renewd crisis which produced a second shortage

Question 42

What did OPEC do?

Answer 42

Hiked up prices much again

Question 43

Faced with the pressure to act, what did Carter do?

Answer 43

He tried an array of measures, non of which worked

Question 44

When Carter fueled all of this uncertainty, he delivered a speech

Answer 44

Malaise speech, which he delivered and Complained about the crisis of spirit that had struck at the very heart and soul of our national will.

Question 45

What did Carter make many Americans feel

Answer 45

That their president had given up

Question 46

By 1980, how high were infation rates

Answer 46

They were 14 percent, higher than they were in 1947

Question 47

What things slipped

Answer 47

Carter’s popularity and the standard of living

Question 48

What happened in the economy

Answer 48

Long trem trends that caused many problems

Question 49

What happened to the manufacturing and service jobs

Answer 49

They had reduced as a result of automation and foreign competiotn

Service expanded: Communications, transportaition, and retail trade

Question 50

Many workers lost their job could not find a higher paying job because those required

Answer 50

More specialized skills

Question 51

What were economies that cut into American’s markets

Answer 51

The economies of West Germany, Japan, Eaiwan,, KOra

Question 52

The nation’s primary industries of Coal, Rubber, Clothing , Automobiles and stieel had to cut back primary production industries

Answer 52

The Auto industry was very hard hit