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True/False The term flexible response related to President Kennedy’s proposed actions when faced with a nuclear attack.
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False. Flexible response is a plan that used special military units to fight guerrilla wars.
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What was the first foreign crisis President John F. Kennedy faced?
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Cuba
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The first American to orbit the earth was ____________.
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John Glenn
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In which year did a human first land on the moon?
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1969
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In 1969, which United States space program fulfilled Kennedy’s challenge to the nation?
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The Apollo Project
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True/False The Vietcong were also known as the French- Vietnamese.
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False. The Vietcong were also known as the National Liberation Front
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True/False After Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the number of troops in Vietnam increased.
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True.
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According to the Geneva Accords, whose Communist forces would occupy North Vietnam?
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Ho Chi Minh
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________________ was the belief that if one nation in Asia fell to Communists, neighboring countries would follow.
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Domino Theory
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Who was the leader of the Vietcong in Vietnam?
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Ho Chi Minh
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True/False The Selective Service System requires men 18 and older to register for the draft.
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True
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Students and other opponents of the Vietnam War became known as ________________.
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Doves
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The ______________ was the turning point in the Vietnam War.
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The Tet Offensive
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The radical ideas of many young people in the 1960s created a _______________.
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Counterculture
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Who was the American Commander in Vietnam?
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William Westmoreland
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True/False North Vietnamese Forces finally won the war with the fall of Saigon.
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True
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_______________ designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Maya Ying Lin
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Who represented the United States at the Paris Peace Talks?
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Henry Kissinger
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Richard Nixon ordered the bombing of enemy supply routes in Laos and ______________.
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Cambodia
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When the National Guard troops fired shots into the crowd, students were killed at _________________.
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Kent State University
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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.
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Silent Majority
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_____________ is a hit and run technique used in fighting a war.
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Guerrilla Warfare
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A ____________ is a sudden overthrow of a government by a small group.
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Coup
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Who was the Chicago mayor who had police control antiwar activists at the Democratic 1968 convention?
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Richard J. Daley
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Who was assassinated after winning the California Primary?
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Robert F. Kennedy
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