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| The Peace Corps was supposed to: | Provide volunteer workers such as teachers and doctors, lower the appeal of communism, and provide aid to poor countries. |
| How did the Bay of Pigs go? | Terrible... The U.S. didn't even deliver their promised air raid support. |
| What was the name of the communist Cuban leader who seized power in 1959? | Fidel Castro |
| After the U.S. discovered Soviet missile sites in Cuba, what was Kennedy's response? | A naval blockade around Cuba not letting any ships through |
| What country was the first to send a human being to orbit Earth? | Soviet Union |
| In the 1900's Vietnam fought with which of the following countries: | United States, Japan, France |
| The regime in South Vietnam that supported the communist North Vietnamese was called: | Vietcong |
| What was the name of the event that gave Lyndon Johnson authority to use American forces in Vietnam and to escalate U.S. involvement? | Golf of Tonkin Resolution |
| Why was fighting in Vietnam so difficult? | Dense jungles, muddy trails, swampy rice paddies, and no clear enemy lines |
| While president Kennedy was trying to increase government spending on nuclear arms, what was he trying to have the Svoiets do? | Spend less on nuclear arms |
| If you were part of the American counterculture of this era, were you MORE LIKELY to be a Hawk or a Dove? | Dove |
| What does the Berlin Wall symbolize? | Communist repression |
| What was the name given to the turning point of the war on January 31, 1968 | Tet Offensive |
| Who was assissnated in 1968? | Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| What is Vietnamization? | Nixon's policy where the South Vietnamese would start taking more and more control of the war. |
| What happened at Kent State University | The famous incident where 4 college students were killed by the National Guard. |
| In the end, what was the North Vietnamese goal? | Unify Vietnam under a communist government |
