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True/False The term flexible response related to President Kennedy’s proposed actions when faced with a nuclear attack.

False. Flexible response is a plan that used special military units to fight guerrilla wars.

What was the first foreign crisis President John F. Kennedy faced?

Cuba

The first American to orbit the earth was ____________.

John Glenn

In which year did a human first land on the moon?

1969

In 1969, which United States space program fulfilled Kennedy’s challenge to the nation?

The Apollo Project

True/False The Vietcong were also known as the French- Vietnamese.

False. The Vietcong were also known as the National Liberation Front

True/False After Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the number of troops in Vietnam increased.

True.

According to the Geneva Accords, whose Communist forces would occupy North Vietnam?

Ho Chi Minh

________________ was the belief that if one nation in Asia fell to Communists, neighboring countries would follow.

Domino Theory

Who was the leader of the Vietcong in Vietnam?

Ho Chi Minh

True/False The Selective Service System requires men 18 and older to register for the draft.

True

Students and other opponents of the Vietnam War became known as ________________.

Doves

The ______________ was the turning point in the Vietnam War.

The Tet Offensive

The radical ideas of many young people in the 1960s created a _______________.

Counterculture

Who was the American Commander in Vietnam?

William Westmoreland

True/False North Vietnamese Forces finally won the war with the fall of Saigon.

True

_______________ designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.

Maya Ying Lin

Who represented the United States at the Paris Peace Talks?

Henry Kissinger

Richard Nixon ordered the bombing of enemy supply routes in Laos and ______________.

Cambodia

When the National Guard troops fired shots into the crowd, students were killed at _________________.

Kent State University

In his Vietnamization speech, Nixon appealed to the __________ of Americans to support his policy of greater involvement of the army of South Vietnam in fighting the war.

Silent Majority

_____________ is a hit and run technique used in fighting a war.

Guerrilla Warfare

A ____________ is a sudden overthrow of a government by a small group.

Coup

Who was the Chicago mayor who had police control antiwar activists at the Democratic 1968 convention?

Richard J. Daley

Who was assassinated after winning the California Primary?

Robert F. Kennedy