To control creeping inflation in the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon
a. imposed a ninety-day wage and price freeze.
b. put the United States back on the gold standard.
c. sought a system of international currency stabilization.
d. lowered Social Security payments.
e. pressured the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates.
Answer: A
The Stalemated Seventies
- Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Arab oil embargo, (B) Iranian hostage crisis, (C) fall of Saigon, (D) invasion of Afghanistan.
- The most humiliating failure during the Iran hostage crisis came when
- The SALT II Treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States died in the Senate when the Soviets
- The "oil shocks" of the 1970s brought home to Americans the stunning fact that
- The first major trouble to afflict President Carter's foreign policy was
- President Carter believed that the fundamental problem of the American economy in the late 1970s was
- President Jimmy Carter's most spectacular foreign-policy achievement was the
- The guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy was
- James Earl (Jimmy) Carter enjoyed considerable popularity when he won the presidency because
- The opposing major party candidates in the bicentennial presidential campaign of 1976 were
- On which of the following issues did nearly all "second wave" feminists agree?
- The "first wave" of feminism grew out of the __________ movement, and the "second wave" of feminism grew out of the ___________ movement.
- American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing
- The supreme Court in the Bakke case held that
- The effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley, which held that integration did not have to take place across school district lines, was to
- The most explosive domestic controversy of the 1970s centered around issues of
- The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because
- The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional because they
- The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), passed by Congress in 1972 and eventually ratified by 35 states, stated the following:
- Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 to
- While many of the social movements born in the 1960s declined or disappeared, the one that remained strong and even gathered momentum in the 1970s was
- When the North Vietnamese launched their full invasion of South Vietnam in 1975
- The people of the United States had provided just about everything for South Vietnam except
- The Helsinki accords, signed by Gerald Ford and leaders of thirty-four other nations,
- The most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency was