Nixon Test Review questions and answers 2023 with
complete solution
What were the negatives of Nixon as the new president?
-unlikely politician
-ill at ease in public
-consumed by a sense of inferiority
What were the highlights of Nixon's presidency?
-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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Vietnamization
What is Vietnamization?
withdrawing U.S troops as fast as possible without undermining the South Vietnamese
government
What was the Nixon Doctrine?
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?
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?
, hoping the war was fading away
-extended military stalemate in Vietnam
What resulted in the invasion of Cambodia?
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?
secret talks
What happend on July 20, 1969?
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?
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?
-U.S was weakened by the Vietnam War
-Soviet Union was worried by the rise of China
-Soviets needed increased trade with the U.S and a counterweight to China
-U.S needed help getting out of Vietnam
-U.S and Soviet Union wanted to limit nuclear armaments
How did Nixon handle the situation in China?
took advantage of Chinese-Soviet tension
-->secret talks led to an easing of the American trade embargo in April 1971 and a tour
of China by a U.S table-tennis team
What happend in February 1972 with Mao Zedong?
Henry Kissinger arranged a meeting for Nixon with Zedong in Beijing
What was the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)?
treaty signed in 1972 by the U.S and the Soviet Union to slow down the nuclear arms
race
-->blocked the creation of the extensive anti-ballistic missile systems (ABM's) but failed
to limit bombers, cruise missiles, or multiple independently targeted warheads on single
missiles
What does detente mean?
easing of tension
What was detente used to describe?
the new relations between U.S, China, and Soviet Union
-->not a friendship or alliance
What did the detente result in?
-facilitated travel between the U.S and China
-allowed U.S farmers to sell wheat to Soviet Union
-->implied that the U.S and China recognized mutual interests in Asia and U.S
acknowledged Soviet Union as an equal in world affairs
What did Nixon do to help him win the election?
complete solution
What were the negatives of Nixon as the new president?
-unlikely politician
-ill at ease in public
-consumed by a sense of inferiority
What were the highlights of Nixon's presidency?
-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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Vietnamization
What is Vietnamization?
withdrawing U.S troops as fast as possible without undermining the South Vietnamese
government
What was the Nixon Doctrine?
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?
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?
, hoping the war was fading away
-extended military stalemate in Vietnam
What resulted in the invasion of Cambodia?
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?
secret talks
What happend on July 20, 1969?
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?
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?
-U.S was weakened by the Vietnam War
-Soviet Union was worried by the rise of China
-Soviets needed increased trade with the U.S and a counterweight to China
-U.S needed help getting out of Vietnam
-U.S and Soviet Union wanted to limit nuclear armaments
How did Nixon handle the situation in China?
took advantage of Chinese-Soviet tension
-->secret talks led to an easing of the American trade embargo in April 1971 and a tour
of China by a U.S table-tennis team
What happend in February 1972 with Mao Zedong?
Henry Kissinger arranged a meeting for Nixon with Zedong in Beijing
What was the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)?
treaty signed in 1972 by the U.S and the Soviet Union to slow down the nuclear arms
race
-->blocked the creation of the extensive anti-ballistic missile systems (ABM's) but failed
to limit bombers, cruise missiles, or multiple independently targeted warheads on single
missiles
What does detente mean?
easing of tension
What was detente used to describe?
the new relations between U.S, China, and Soviet Union
-->not a friendship or alliance
What did the detente result in?
-facilitated travel between the U.S and China
-allowed U.S farmers to sell wheat to Soviet Union
-->implied that the U.S and China recognized mutual interests in Asia and U.S
acknowledged Soviet Union as an equal in world affairs
What did Nixon do to help him win the election?
