AMSCO AP US HISTORY MAIN EXAMINATION SET
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
significance of watergate - ✔✔proved that checks and balances worked, and destroyed
people's faith in government
fall of saigon - ✔✔saigon fell to the enemy, Vietnam became one country. it marked a
low point of American prestige and confidence at home
genocide in cambodia - ✔✔US government supported Cambodia, which fell under
Khmer Rouge,a radical communist faction that conducted genocide against one million
of it's own people, ford ordered an attack on Cambodian naval base that captured the
US merchant ship, Mayaguez
election of 1976 - ✔✔election between ford and reagan, carter won
earl jimmy carter - ✔✔democratic governor of Georgia, he won the south and 97% of
the African American vote, his goal during his presidency was to end imperial
democracy
andrew young - ✔✔an African American appointed to serve as an US ambassador to
the UN, he championed the cause of human rights by denouncing the opression of
blacks in South Africa
in 1978 - ✔✔the senate ratified a treaty that transferred control of the Panama canal
from the US to Panama
Camp David Accords - ✔✔Egypt's president Anwar Sadat visited Israel, prime minister
Menachim Begin in Jerusalem. Carter invited them both to his house in Camp David,
MO
significance of the Camp David accords - ✔✔provided a frame work for peace
settlement between Israel and Egypt as a result, Egypt became the first Arab nation to
recognize the state of Israel and Israel withdrew their troops from the Sinai territory
taken from Egypt in the six day war
Iran and the hostage treaty - ✔✔in 1979, Islam fundamentalists in Iran, led by Ayatollah
Kho Mein overthrew the shah's dictatorial government. the shahs kept the oil from
flowing in the west by alienating the Iranian population, this caused the second oil
shortage
what did the iranians do to the west? - ✔✔iranian militants seized the US embassy in
Tehran and held Americans hostage. In April, Carter tried to approve a rescue mission
but it failed
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
significance of watergate - ✔✔proved that checks and balances worked, and destroyed
people's faith in government
fall of saigon - ✔✔saigon fell to the enemy, Vietnam became one country. it marked a
low point of American prestige and confidence at home
genocide in cambodia - ✔✔US government supported Cambodia, which fell under
Khmer Rouge,a radical communist faction that conducted genocide against one million
of it's own people, ford ordered an attack on Cambodian naval base that captured the
US merchant ship, Mayaguez
election of 1976 - ✔✔election between ford and reagan, carter won
earl jimmy carter - ✔✔democratic governor of Georgia, he won the south and 97% of
the African American vote, his goal during his presidency was to end imperial
democracy
andrew young - ✔✔an African American appointed to serve as an US ambassador to
the UN, he championed the cause of human rights by denouncing the opression of
blacks in South Africa
in 1978 - ✔✔the senate ratified a treaty that transferred control of the Panama canal
from the US to Panama
Camp David Accords - ✔✔Egypt's president Anwar Sadat visited Israel, prime minister
Menachim Begin in Jerusalem. Carter invited them both to his house in Camp David,
MO
significance of the Camp David accords - ✔✔provided a frame work for peace
settlement between Israel and Egypt as a result, Egypt became the first Arab nation to
recognize the state of Israel and Israel withdrew their troops from the Sinai territory
taken from Egypt in the six day war
Iran and the hostage treaty - ✔✔in 1979, Islam fundamentalists in Iran, led by Ayatollah
Kho Mein overthrew the shah's dictatorial government. the shahs kept the oil from
flowing in the west by alienating the Iranian population, this caused the second oil
shortage
what did the iranians do to the west? - ✔✔iranian militants seized the US embassy in
Tehran and held Americans hostage. In April, Carter tried to approve a rescue mission
but it failed
