Question 1

The treaties that President Carter signed with Panama

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A)  called for the creation of a democratically-elected government in Panama. 
B)  provided for the demilitarization of the Caribbean. 
C)  caused anti-American rioting in Panama because more Panamanian territory was placed under American control. 
D)  gave the United States the right to defend the Panama Canal after it was returned to Panama in the year 2000. 
A)  called for the creation of a democratically-elected government in Panama. 
B)  provided for the demilitarization of the Caribbean. 
C)  caused anti-American rioting in Panama because more Panamanian territory was placed under American control. 
D)  gave the United States the right to defend the Panama Canal after it was returned to Panama in the year 2000.

Question 2

Two countries in which Nixon's foreign policy and operations by the CIA reflected Cold War fears of leftist-inspired instability were

Accepted Answer

A)  Angola and Chile. 
B)  the Philippines and Thailand. 
C)  France and Italy. 
D)  Mexico and Honduras. 
A)  Angola and Chile. 
B)  the Philippines and Thailand. 
C)  France and Italy. 
D)  Mexico and Honduras.

Question 3

After President Nixon's opening to China, American and Chinese conferees reached which of the following agreements?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Soviet Union should not be allowed to make gains in Asia. 
B)  The United States should break its ties with the Nationalist Chinese government of Taiwan. 
C)  China should relinquish control of the province of Kashmir to Pakistan. 
D)  The United States should withdraw its forces from Laos and Cambodia. 
A)  The Soviet Union should not be allowed to make gains in Asia. 
B)  The United States should break its ties with the Nationalist Chinese government of Taiwan. 
C)  China should relinquish control of the province of Kashmir to Pakistan. 
D)  The United States should withdraw its forces from Laos and Cambodia.

Question 4

Beginning in the early 1970s, the significant increase in the participation of women in sports at colleges and universities can be traced in large part to

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A)  studies by medical researchers showing a direct correlation between women's participation in sports and good mental health. 
B)  Title IX of the Higher Education Act, passed by Congress in 1972. 
C)  the popularity and influence of the book Our Bodies, Ourselves. 
D)  the sex discrimination provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 
A)  studies by medical researchers showing a direct correlation between women's participation in sports and good mental health. 
B)  Title IX of the Higher Education Act, passed by Congress in 1972. 
C)  the popularity and influence of the book Our Bodies, Ourselves. 
D)  the sex discrimination provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Question 5

One of the ways in which President Nixon and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger tried to weaken communism was by

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A)  making a big show of expanding the American arsenal of nuclear weapons. 
B)  increasing America's military presence in Turkey and Iran. 
C)  halting exports of American wheat to Russia and China. 
D)  improving relations with both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China at a time when tensions were increasing between those two communist nations. 
A)  making a big show of expanding the American arsenal of nuclear weapons. 
B)  increasing America's military presence in Turkey and Iran. 
C)  halting exports of American wheat to Russia and China. 
D)  improving relations with both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China at a time when tensions were increasing between those two communist nations.

The treaties that President Carter signed with Panama

Two countries in which Nixon's foreign policy and operations by the CIA reflected Cold War fears of leftist-inspired instability were

After President Nixon's opening to China, American and Chinese conferees reached which of the following agreements?

Beginning in the early 1970s, the significant increase in the participation of women in sports at colleges and universities can be traced in large part to

One of the ways in which President Nixon and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger tried to weaken communism was by

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Exam 31: Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969-1980

The treaties that President Carter signed with Panama

Two countries in which Nixon's foreign policy and operations by the CIA reflected Cold War fears of leftist-inspired instability were

After President Nixon's opening to China, American and Chinese conferees reached which of the following agreements?

Beginning in the early 1970s, the significant increase in the participation of women in sports at colleges and universities can be traced in large part to

One of the ways in which President Nixon and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger tried to weaken communism was by

Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600

Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650

North America in the Atlantic World, 1650-1720

American Society Transformed, 1720-1770

Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754-1774

A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783

Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789

The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800

Defining the Nation, 1801-1823

The Rise of the South, 1815-1860

The Restless North, 1815-1860

Reform and Politics, 1824-1845

The Contested West, 1815-1860

Slavery and Americas Future: the Road to War, 1845-1861

Transforming Fire: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction: an Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

The Development of the West, 1865-1900

The Machine Age, 1877-1920

The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877-1920

Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900

The Progressive Era, 1895-1920

The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920

The New Era, 1920-1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1941

The United States in a Troubled World, 1920-1941

The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945

The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961

America at Midcentury, 1945-1960

The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968

Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992

Into the Global Millennium, America Since 1992

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