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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Thanksgiving Day Massacre?
(a) Troops were withdrawn from the Mekong Delta.
(b) Averell Harriman was named Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
(c) Kennedy increased the number of troops in Vietnam.
(d) Maxwell Taylor was removed from his position.

2. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of Defense?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) Chester Bowles.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) McGeorge Bundy.

3. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?
(a) As a boon to the military contractors.
(b) As a war against Communism.
(c) As a gift to Asian allies.
(d) As a diversion from domestic problems.

4. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?
(a) Robert McNamara's.
(b) McGeorge Bundy's.
(c) George Kennan's.
(d) Chester Bowles'.

5. What did Kennedy ask Chester Bowles for advice on?
(a) Foreign policy.
(b) Budget cuts.
(c) Military analysis.
(d) Campaigning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the recommendation that came out of the fact-finding mission of 1961?

2. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?

3. Which issue was NOT confronting the nation when the Kennedy administration took office?

4. Who was Kennedy's military analyst on the 1961 fact-finding mission?

5. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?

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