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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-33: The Foreign Policy Breach: Latin America; Vietnam Legacy; The Breach Widens: Vietnam; The Breach Widens: South Africa, New York.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?
(a) The social services division.
(b) The criminal justice division.
(c) The anti-trust division.
(d) The special services division.

2. What decision did President Johnson make about the war in Vietnam during the 1960s?
(a) To overthrow the government in a military coup.
(b) To gradually withdraw troops in a year.
(c) To stay and add more troops.
(d) To withdraw troops immediately.

3. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?
(a) United States and the Soviet Union.
(b) United States and Vietnam.
(c) Cuba and Vietnam.
(d) Cuba and the Soviet Union.

4. What dilemma faced the Justice Department when civil rights leaders in the South were brutalized?
(a) How to convince Southern leaders to accept black justices.
(b) How to bring equal employment to the South.
(c) How to enforce constitutional law without a national police force.
(d) How to create laws.

5. What was Robert Kennedy's margin when he won a Senate seat in New York?
(a) 700,000 votes.
(b) 8,000 votes.
(c) 700 votes.
(d) 800 votes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?

2. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?

3. How did Robert Kennedy secure the release American prisoners in the early 1960s?

4. What did Robert Kennedy become known for when he debated political arguments during the presidential campaign in 1964?

5. What organization was created to support American foreign policy in the 1960s?

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