Question 1

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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A)   gave President Lyndon Johnson wide latitude to escalate the conflict.
B)   both gave President Lyndon Johnson wide latitude to escalate the conflict, and called for 250,000 U.S. combat troops to be sent to Vietnam.
C)   resulted in a U.S. declaration of war on North Vietnam.
D)   called for 250,000 U.S. combat troops to be sent to Vietnam.
E)   None of these answers is correct.

Question 2

One of the chief obstacles in John Kennedy's presidential bid in 1960 was his

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A)   wealth.
B)   womanizing.
C)   religion.
D)   lack of resources.
E)   public image.

Question 3

In Vietnam,the American "pacification" strategy

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A)   included giving Vietnamese villages significant economic aid.
B)   was successful in the South, but not in the North.
C)   eliminated the Viet Cong's ability to attack American patrols.
D)   was replaced by the more heavy-handed "relocation" strategy.
E)   called for a peaceful settlement with the North Vietnamese.

Question 4

All of the following statements regarding the 1968 Tet offensive are true EXCEPT that it

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A)   suggested to the American public something of the brutality of the fighting in Vietnam.
B)   saw the communists fighting on the grounds of the American embassy in Saigon.
C)   involved the fall of Saigon to the communists.
D)   began on a Vietnamese holiday.
E)   saw American troops inflict enormous casualties on the communists.

Question 5

Regarding foreign policy,was Lyndon Johnson more in line with Franklin Roosevelt,Woodrow Wilson,or Theodore Roosevelt? Explain your choice.

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Question 6

In 1965,President Lyndon Johnson responded to an attack on Pleiku by

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A)   warning China and the Soviet Union not to be involved in Vietnam.
B)   sending 250,000 American troops to Vietnam.
C)   bombing North Vietnam.
D)   mining the harbor of Haiphong.
E)   organizing the Tet Offensive.

Question 7

President Lyndon Johnson's first major foreign policy test came in 1961 during a crisis in

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A)   Brazil.
B)   the Dominican Republic.
C)   Singapore.
D)   the Middle East.
E)   Laos.

Question 8

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and subsequent related measures

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A)   both offered aid to public and private schools, and based aid on student rather than school need.
B)   managed to circumvent objections that the Kennedy administration had faced.
C)   based aid on student need rather than school need.
D)   All these answers are correct.
E)   offered aid to both public and private schools.

Question 9

The Kennedy administration created the plan to oust Castro from Cuba that became the Bay of Pigs operation.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In 1968,Richard Nixon won a strong personal mandate to lead the country.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

By the end of 1967,the number of American troops in Vietnam had surpassed

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A)   1,250,000.
B)   500,000.
C)   200,000.
D)   1,000,000.
E)   750,000.

Question 12

In 1965,the first major race riot in the United States since World War II took place in

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A)   Los Angeles.
B)   Chicago.
C)   Cleveland.
D)   Memphis.
E)   Detroit.

Question 13

In 1956,the United States' interest in South Vietnam

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A)   was mainly in replacing the corrupt Ngo Dinh Diem government.
B)   was predicated on Diem agreeing to hold free and open elections.
C)   was nearly nonexistent.
D)   was purely commercial.
E)   had made the country a recipient of large amounts of American military and economic aid.

Question 14

The Vienna summit meeting represented an attempt by President Kennedy to convince Moscow to stop construction of the Berlin Wall.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The Cuban missile crisis ended after President John Kennedy agreed to

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A)   provide economic aid to Cuba.
B)   withdraw American troops from West Berlin.
C)   remove American missiles from West Germany.
D)   not invade Cuba.
E)   restore diplomatic ties with Cuba.

Question 16

In 1956,scheduled national elections for Vietnam were canceled because

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A)   the United Nations asserted it would be impossible to prevent election fraud.
B)   the leader of the pro-Western government in South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, refused to hold them.
C)   the communist government in North Vietnam refused to participate.
D)   a leading presidential candidate was assassinated.
E)   actions by the National Liberation Front (NLF)  prevented free and open elections.

Question 17

In the summer of 1967,racial conflicts in the United States

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A)   resulted in more than a hundred major disorders.
B)   None of these answers is correct.
C)   both resulted in more than a hundred major disorders, and went ignored by the Johnson administration.
D)   saw 43 people die in a racial clash in Detroit.
E)   went ignored by the Johnson administration.

Question 18

The Johnson administration

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A)   believed all of Vietnam should be restored to French control.
B)   sent the first American combat troops to South Vietnam.
C)   sent the first American military advisers to South Vietnam.
D)   began removing military advisers from South Vietnam.
E)   inherited a substantial American commitment to maintain South Vietnam.

Question 19

All of the following actions were initiated by President John Kennedy EXCEPT

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A)   the CIA plan to overthrow Fidel Castro.
B)   the creation of the Peace Corps.
C)   the creation of the "Alliance for Progress."
D)   the creation of the Agency for International Development.
E)   an expansion of the Green Berets.

Question 20

In the 1960 presidential election,Richard Nixon lost the popular vote by a wide margin.

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A) True 
 B)False

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