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Chapter 39
The Stalemated
Seventies, 1968–1980
Question
All of the following were true of Vietnamization EXCEPT
a) Nixon’s goal was to withdraw the 540,000 U.S.
troops in South Vietnam over an extended period.
b) the South Vietnamese could then gradually take
over the burden of fighting their own war.
c) Nixon felt the South Vietnamese could fight on
without American money, weapons, training, and
advice.
d) it evolved because there was a burning need to quiet
the public uproar over Vietnam.
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Answer
All of the following were true of Vietnamization EXCEPT
a) Nixon’s goal was to withdraw the 540,000 U.S.
troops in South Vietnam over an extended period.
b) the South Vietnamese could then gradually take
over the burden of fighting their own war.
c) Nixon felt the South Vietnamese could fight on
without American money, weapons, training, and
advice. (correct)
d) it evolved because there was a burning need to quiet
the public uproar over Vietnam.
Hint: See page 1004.
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Question
All of the following were true of the Nixon Doctrine
EXCEPT
a) it proclaimed that the United States would honor its existing
defense commitments.
b) in the future, Asians and others would have to fight their own
wars without the support of large bodies of American ground
troops.
c) Nixon sought not to end the war, but to win it by other means,
without the further spilling of American blood.
d) it proclaimed that communism was not monolithic and that the
United States might enter into alliance with communist nations
not affiliated with the regime in Moscow.
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Answer
All of the following were true of the Nixon Doctrine
EXCEPT
a) it proclaimed that the United States would honor its existing
defense commitments.
b) in the future, Asians and others would have to fight their own
wars without the support of large bodies of American ground
troops.
c) Nixon sought not to end the war, but to win it by other means,
without the further spilling of American blood.
d) it proclaimed that communism was not monolithic, and that the
United States might enter into alliance with communist nations
not affiliated with the regime in Moscow. (correct)
Hint: See page 1004.
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Question
News stories about the My Lai Massacre revealed
that
a) Vietnamese villagers had murdered innocent
American troops in the village of My Lai.
b) American troops had murdered innocent women and
children in the village of My Lai.
c) Nixon had ordered a coverup of the murder of
hundreds of American troops.
d) Nixon had ordered a coverup of the murder of
hundreds of Vietnamese villagers.
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Answer
News stories about the My Lai Massacre revealed
that
a) Vietnamese villagers had murdered innocent
American troops in the village of My Lai.
b) American troops had murdered innocent women and
children in the village of My Lai. (correct)
c) Nixon had ordered a coverup of the murder of
hundreds of American troops.
d) Nixon had ordered a coverup of the murder of
hundreds of Vietnamese villagers.
Hint: See page 1005.
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Question
All of the following were true of the Pentagon Papers
EXCEPT
a) they fueled the fires of antiwar discontent.
b) a former Pentagon official leaked them to The New
York Times.
c) they included a top-secret Pentagon study that
documented the blunders and deceptions of the
Nixon administration.
d) they chronicled how U.S. forces provoked the 1964
North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Answer
All of the following were true of the Pentagon Papers
EXCEPT
a) they fueled the fires of antiwar discontent.
b) a former Pentagon official leaked them to The New
York Times.
c) they included a top-secret Pentagon study that
documented the blunders and deceptions of the
Nixon administration. (correct)
d) they chronicled how U.S. forces provoked the 1964
North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Hint: See page 1006.
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Question
All of the following were true of Détente EXCEPT
a) Nixon concluded that the road out of Vietnam ran
through Beijing and Moscow.
b) Nixon used Chinese-Soviet tension afforded the
United States to play off one antagonist against the
other.
c) Nixon hoped to enlist the aid of both in pressuring
North Vietnam into peace.
d) because Nixon was an uncompromising
anticommunist, he rejected an invitation to visit
Communist China.
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Answer
All of the following were true of Détente EXCEPT
a) Nixon concluded that the road out of Vietnam ran
through Beijing and Moscow.
b) Nixon used Chinese-Soviet tension afforded the
United States to play off one antagonist against the
other.
c) Nixon hoped to enlist the aid of both in pressuring
North Vietnam into peace.
d) because Nixon was an uncompromising
anticommunist, he rejected an invitation to visit
Communist China. (correct)
Hint: See page 1006.
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Question
All of the following were true of the SALT II Treaty EXCEPT
a) it limited the levels of lethal strategic weapons in the
Soviet and American arsenals.
b) conservative supporters of the president’s defense
policies pushed hard to ratify the SALT II treaty when
it came to the Senate.
c) political earthquakes in the petroleum-rich Persian
Gulf region finally buried all hopes of ratifying SALT
II.
d) the SALT II treaty became a dead letter in the
Senate after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Answer
All of the following were true of the SALT II Treaty EXCEPT
a) it limited the levels of lethal strategic weapons in the
Soviet and American arsenals.
b) conservative supporters of the president’s defense
policies pushed hard to ratify the SALT II treaty when
it came to the Senate. (correct)
c) political earthquakes in the petroleum-rich Persian
Gulf region finally buried all hopes of ratifying SALT
II.
d) the SALT II treaty became a dead letter in the
Senate after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Hint: See page 1027.
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Question
The case of Roe v. Wade proved that the
a) Warren Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “liberal” rulings of the Burger Court.
b) Burger Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “liberal” rulings of the Warren Court.
c) Warren Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “conservative” rulings of the Burger Court.
d) Burger Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “conservative” rulings of the Warren Court.
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Answer
The case of Roe v. Wade proved that the
a) Warren Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “liberal” rulings of the Burger Court.
b) Burger Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “liberal” rulings of the Warren Court. (correct)
c) Warren Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “conservative” rulings of the Burger Court.
d) Burger Court that Nixon shaped proved reluctant to dismantle
the “conservative” rulings of the Warren Court.
Hint: See page 1008.
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Question
All of the following were true of the War Powers Act
EXCEPT
a) it was rendered ineffective by Nixon’s veto.
b) it required the president to report to Congress within
forty-eight hours after committing troops to a foreign
conflict.
c) a limited authorization would have to end within sixty
days unless Congress extended it for thirty more
days.
d) it was one manifestation of the “New Isolationism,”
after the bloody and futile misadventure in Vietnam.
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Answer
All of the following were true of the War Powers Act
EXCEPT
a) it was rendered ineffective by Nixon’s veto. (correct)
b) it required the president to report to Congress within
forty-eight hours after committing troops to a foreign
conflict.
c) a limited authorization would have to end within sixty
days unless Congress extended it for thirty more
days.
d) it was one manifestation of the “New Isolationism,”
after the bloody and futile misadventure in Vietnam.
Hint: See page 1011.
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Question
All of the following were aspects of the Watergate
scandal EXCEPT the
a) “Smoking Gun” Tape.
b) “Saturday Night Massacre.”
c) “cover-up” of the Watergate break-in.
d) revelation that Nixon had sexual relations
with a White House intern.
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Answer
All of the following were aspects of the Watergate
scandal EXCEPT the
a) “Smoking Gun” Tape.
b) “Saturday Night Massacre.”
c) “cover-up” of the Watergate break-in.
d) revelation that Nixon had sexual relations
with a White House intern. (correct)
Hint: See page 1013.
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Question
All of the following were true of the Equal Rights
Amendment EXCEPT
a) it was first proposed by suffragists in 1923.
b) it won congressional approval in 1972.
c) it declared, “Equality of rights under the law shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of sex.”
d) the necessary thirty-eight states quickly ratified the
amendment.
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Answer
All of the following were true of the Equal Rights
Amendment EXCEPT
a) it was first proposed by suffragists in 1923.
b) it won congressional approval in 1972.
c) it declared, “Equality of rights under the law shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of sex.”
d) the necessary thirty-eight states quickly ratified the
amendment. (correct)
Hint: See page 1017.
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