Question 1

How and why did a more conservative mood evolve in the nation during the late 1960s and early 1970s? How did this mood evolve out of radicalism? What happened to the New Left, and why?

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Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Gerald Ford

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Question 3

What were the issues, and who were the personalities, of the 1968 presidential campaign? What conclusions can you draw from the results of that year's political events? What, in particular, was the connection between domestic politics and foreign policy?

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Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and "Deep Throat"

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Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

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Question 6

What did the experiences of late 1960s communes demonstrate?

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A)  Attempting to go against the Establishment led communal residents to drugs, venereal disease, and crime. 
B)  Most Americans would have accepted the communal ethic if the news media had portrayed it favorably. 
C)  Countercultures in the United States never can succeed or gain much following because of the power of the American ideology of family and sharing. 
D)  Groups that try to live a life of sharing closer to nature on rural communes will inevitably turn an urban neighborhood into an overcrowded, over-commercialized slum. 
E)  Some people sought to escape the urban-corporate world and live more naturally, but most communes were short-lived.

Question 7

What happened to President Richard Nixon?

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A)  Impeached by the House of Representatives for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. 
B)  Resigned to allow Vice President Spiro Agnew to take over the reins of power and end the nation's long nightmare. 
C)  Resigned from office before the House of Representatives could impeach him, which it was likely to do. 
D)  Died of a heart attack as impeachment proceedings began. 
E)  Committed suicide and was replaced by Gerald Ford.

Question 8

What was the cause of the 1973-1974 oil embargo?

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A)  The United States was providing Israel with military equipment to repel the attack by Syria and Egypt. 
B)  Western Europe refused to agree to new OPEC price increases. 
C)  The Palestine Liberation Organization attempted to establish an independent Arab-Palestinian nation. 
D)  Egypt abandoned its alliance with Moscow and forge an alliance with Washington. 
E)  The United States refused to withdraw missiles from Turkey in exchange for Soviet withdrawal of missiles from Cuba

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
1968 Election Campaign

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Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Women's Liberation

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Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Saturday Night Massacre

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Question 12

What were the major successes and failures of the Women's Liberation Movement?

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Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Streaking

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Question 14

Economic developments in the 1970s forced millions of Americans to

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A)  consider military service as a way to stave off unemployment. 
B)  learn to live with less energy, jobs and possibilities. 
C)  watch the value of the dollar skyrocket. 
D)  pay higher taxes to lower the federal deficit. 
E)  pay nearly $2 for a gallon of gas.

Question 15

Which of the following events did not occur in 1968?

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A)  The nomination of an antiwar Democratic candidate for president 
B)  The assassination of a prominent civil-rights leader 
C)  Violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago 
D)  A political comeback by a Republican politician 
E)  The assassination of a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency

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Question 17

Which of the following did not occur during the Nixon presidency?

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A)  Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency. 
B)  Environmentalists sponsored the first Earth Day. 
C)  The government initiated the Interstate Highway System. 
D)  Nixon proposed the Family Assistance Program. 
E)  Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Question 18

Explore the origins and activities of the women's rights' movement in the 1960s. Why did the movement begin and what were its goals? How successful was it in achieving its goals? Explain.

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Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Richard Nixon

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Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Sexual Revolution

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Exam 29: A Time of Upheaval

How and why did a more conservative mood evolve in the nation during the late 1960s and early 1970s? How did this mood evolve out of radicalism? What happened to the New Left, and why?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Gerald Ford

What were the issues, and who were the personalities, of the 1968 presidential campaign? What conclusions can you draw from the results of that year's political events? What, in particular, was the connection between domestic politics and foreign policy?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and "Deep Throat"

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

What did the experiences of late 1960s communes demonstrate?

What happened to President Richard Nixon?

What was the cause of the 1973-1974 oil embargo?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 1968 Election Campaign

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Women's Liberation

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Saturday Night Massacre

What were the major successes and failures of the Women's Liberation Movement?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Streaking

Economic developments in the 1970s forced millions of Americans to

Which of the following events did not occur in 1968?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency

Which of the following did not occur during the Nixon presidency?

Explore the origins and activities of the women's rights' movement in the 1960s. Why did the movement begin and what were its goals? How successful was it in achieving its goals? Explain.

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Richard Nixon

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Sexual Revolution