American History Quiz

What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

• Exchange of US and PRC table tennis players to begin secret negotiations

• Policy of reducing the role of the Federal Government and give states back some pre New Deal control

• A cover up dealing with the break-in of the Democratic Campaign offices

• Take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States

What does Ping-Pong Diplomacy refer to?

• Exchange of US and PRC table tennis players to begin secret negotiations

• Policy of reducing the role of the Federal Government and give states back some pre New Deal control

• A cover up dealing with the break-in of the Democratic Campaign offices

• Take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States

What is New Federalism?

• Exchange of US and PRC table tennis players to begin secret negotiations

• Policy of reducing the role of the Federal Government and give states back some pre New Deal control

• A cover up dealing with the break-in of the Democratic Campaign offices

• Take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States

What is the Domino Theory?

• Exchange of US and PRC table tennis players to begin secret negotiations

• Policy of reducing the role of the Federal Government and give states back some pre New Deal control

• A cover up dealing with the break-in of the Democratic Campaign offices

• The “fall” of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighboring states

What was the Watergate Affair?

• Exchange of US and PRC table tennis players to begin secret negotiations

• Policy of reducing the role of the Federal Government and give states back some pre New Deal control

• A cover up dealing with the break-in of the Democratic Campaign offices

• Take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States

What was the Hostage Crisis?

• US and USSR established limits on the number of defensive missile sites

• OPEC Nations lowered production and drove up prices by creating an oil “cartel”

• Pardoned Nixon

• 54 Americans held by Iranian revolutionaries

What does SALT stand for?

• US and USSR established limits on the number of defensive missile sites

• OPEC Nations lowered production and drove up prices by creating an oil “cartel”

• Pardoned Nixon

• 54 Americans held by Iranian revolutionaries

Who pardoned Nixon?

• US and USSR established limits on the number of defensive missile sites

• OPEC Nations lowered production and drove up prices by creating an oil “cartel”

• Gerald Ford

• 54 Americans held by Iranian revolutionaries

What was the Oil Embargo?

• US and USSR established limits on the number of defensive missile sites

• OPEC Nations lowered production and drove up prices by creating an oil “cartel”

• Pardoned Nixon

• 54 Americans held by Iranian revolutionaries

What was the outcome of Nixon v. the US?

• US and USSR established limits on the number of defensive missile sites

• OPEC Nations lowered production and drove up prices by creating an oil “cartel”

• Pardoned Nixon

• President doesn’t have unlimited executive privilege and cannot use power to cover up crimes