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2. What was the first foreign crisis President John F. Kennedy faced? a.Cuba b. Laos c. Cambodia d. Vietnam

3. Cuba

4. Sputnik was launched by what country?

5. Soviet Union

6. President John F. Kennedy tried to convince the Soviets to agree to a ______________.

7. Ban on nuclear testing

8. What did president Kennedy order in response to the missile build up in Cuba?

9. A blockade

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

11. The Apollo Project

12. True/False After the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was passed, the number of United States troops in Vietnam increased?

13. True

14. True/False Agent Orange was a chemical herbicide that was used to help kill off jungle growth in Vietnam, but also was the cause of health problems in many people

15. True.

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

17. Ho Chi Minh

18. The __________ added a new dimension to warfare. It took soldiers into battle, supplied them, and evacuated the wounded and the dead.

19. Helicopter

20. Who was the Secretary of Defense sent to Vietnam on a fact-finding mission? a.JFK b.Robert Kennedy c.Henry Kissinger d.Robert McNamara

21. Robert McNamara

22. True/False Richard M. Nixon won a majority of votes in the 1968 presidential election.

23. True

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

25. Doves

26. Who was the “silent majority’s” 1968 presidential candidate?

27. Richard M. Nixon

28. _____________ was the turning point in the Vietnam War.

29. Tet Offensive

30. ________________ was the American Commander in Vietnam?

31. William Westmoreland

32. True/False Vietnamization was President Nixon’s plan to defeat North Vietnam.

33. False Vietnamization was Nixon’s plan for America to begin to take less of a role in Vietnam and begin turning the majority of the fighting over to the South Vietnamese.

34. Maya Ying Lin designed the ______________________ in Washington D.C.

35. Vietnam Veterans Memorial

36. ______________ ordered the bombing of enemy supply routes in Laos and Cambodia.

37. Richard Nixon

38. ___________ fired into the crowd at Kent State, killing 4 students and wounding at least 9 more.

39. The National Guard

40. Henry Kissinger represented the United States at the _______________________.

41. Paris Peace Talks

42. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during the __________ administration?

43. Kennedy

44. _____________ was assassinated after winning the California primary.

45. Robert F. Kennedy

46. What did some Vietnam War protestors do to show their opposition to the draft?

47. Burned their Draft Cards

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

49. Counterculture

50. __________ was the Chicago Mayor who had police control anti-war activists at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

51. Richard J. Daley