Nixon Test Review UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Nixon Test Review UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What were the negatives of Nixon as the new president? - CORRECT ANSWER- -
unlikely politician
-ill at ease in public
-consumed by a sense of inferiority
What were the highlights of Nixon's presidency? - CORRECT ANSWER- -red...
Nixon Test Review UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What were the negatives of Nixon as the new president? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -
unlikely politician
-ill at ease in public
-consumed by a sense of inferiority
What were the highlights of Nixon's presidency? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -reduced
tensions in the Cold War
-reluctantly upgraded civil rights enforcement
-set goals for minority hiring by federal contractors
-presided over impressive environmental legislation
What did Nixon claim during his campaign concerning the tensions in Southeast Asia? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- He had a secret plant to end the war-->didn't actually have a plan
What happend in March 1928 with the U.S soldiers? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
slaughtered hundreds of men, women, and children in South Vietnamese village of My Lai
after failure to find any Viet Cong
-->proved dehumanizing power of war and showed how far U.S was straying from its ideals
What was the Vietnamese Moratorium? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 2 million U.S protestors
joined rallies across the country as result of the actions being taken in Vietnam
How did Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew respond? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- tried
to isolate the antiwar opposition and Nixon reduced the role of U.S ground forces
-Nixon claimed that his policies represented ẗhe great silent majority of my fellow Americans
How did Nixon's secretary of defense Melvin Laird respond to the antiwar sentiment? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Vietnamization
, What is Vietnamization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- withdrawing U.S troops as fast as
possible without undermining the South Vietnamese government
What was the Nixon Doctrine? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- President Nixon's new American
policy (1969) toward Asia in which the United States would honor treaty commitments but
would gradually disengage and expect Asian nations to handle military defense on their own
-U.S would help other countries fight their wars with weapons and money, not with soldiers
When did the secret war with Cambodia begin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- April 30, 1970
-->invasion with the purpose of smashing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bases to allow
time to rebuild the South Vietnamese Army
Why were Americans enraged when they found out about the secret war against Cambodia? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- hoping the war was fading away
-extended military stalemate in Vietnam
What resulted in the invasion of Cambodia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the U.S invasion
had destabilized its government and opened way for Khmer Rouge who killed millions of
Cambodians in the name of a working-class revolution
Despite his anti-communistic beliefs, how was Nixon able to improve relations with the
Soviet Union and China? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- secret talks
What happend on July 20, 1969? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Buzz Aldrin and Neil
Armstrong successfully landed on the moon
-->U.S won one phase of the space race with the Soviet Union
What were Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger's thoughts on foreign
affairs? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- was not about crusades or moral stands but about the
balance of the world economic and military power
What was the main reason that the U.S wanted to move toward a new balance with the Soviet
Union and China? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -U.S was weakened by the Vietnam War
-Soviet Union was worried by the rise of China
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