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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. When John Kennedy stood for reelection, what was the country enamored by?
(a) Southern Democrats.
(b) Southern Baptists.
(c) The New Frontier and the culture of Camelot.
(d) Martin Luther King.

2. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Margaret Eunice.
(c) Kathleen McAllister.
(d) Rose Hoover.

3. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Walter Reuther.
(c) Jimmy Hoffa.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

4. Who was appointed ambassador to England?
(a) Joe Kennedy.
(b) Edward Kennedy.
(c) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(d) Rose McAllister.

5. Who was exempted from the mandatory 70-year old retirement in 1964?
(a) Brown.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Hoover.
(d) Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people in America who opposed military action in Vietnam say about the developing conflict in the 1960s?

2. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?

3. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?

4. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?

5. Who assisted in secret negotiations with Castro?

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