Nixon test UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Nixon test UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What policy did Nixon adopt in order to reduce the size and power of the federal
government? - CORRECT ANSWER- New Federalism
What product did OPEC cut off the supply of to the US? - CORRECT ANSWER- Oil
What country did Nixon visit...
Nixon test UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What policy did Nixon adopt in order to reduce the size and power of the federal
government? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- New Federalism
What product did OPEC cut off the supply of to the US? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Oil
What country did Nixon visit in 1972 in order to begin normalizing relations, which was a
reversal American policy established in 1949? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- China
Who became president when Nixon resigned? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Gerald Ford
What was the stated purpose of Nixon's revenue sharing proposal? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Give state and local government more control over how federal dollars were
spent
What did Nixon do that provided temporary relief from stagflation in 1971? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Implementation wage and price controls
Which term refers specifically to the foreign relations policy adopted by the US during the
Nixon Administration to ease Cold War tensions? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Detente
Who was Nixon's first attorney general and former law partner. He became the head of CRP
in 1972 and was eventually convicted of conspiracy, perjury, and the obstruction of justice? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- John Mitchell
What did the foreign policy of detente mainly intend to do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Ease cold war tensions
With what nation did the US sign the SALT I treaty? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The Soviet
Union
, What was the name of the event in which Nixon ordered Attorney General Richardson to fire
the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate break-in? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Saturday Night Massacre
What did President Nixon's resignation most directly follow? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Release of taped presidential conversations
This term refers to the dual problems of rising unemployment and inflation encountered
during the Nixon years. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Stagflation
What did Henry Kissinger believe should be the main consideration of the US in conducting
relations with another nation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- That nation's power or benefit
Which one of the Nixon appointees escaped the Watergate scandal? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Henry Kissinger
The main goal of President Nixon's New Federalism was to do what? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Reduce the power of the federal government
During the 1970s a number of nations formed OPEC in order to do what? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Control the price of oil
When did the Watergate cover-up begin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Immediately after the
burglars were arrested
What were some of the things that happened in the 1968 election? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- The Democrats were badly divided, Democrats retained control of congress
and Nixon won unanimously in the Electoral College.
Who were "the plumbers" most closely connected? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The White
House
What decision was made in Roe Vs. Wade by the 1973 Supreme Court? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- To legalize abortion
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