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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 organization assisted in social and economic reform in Latin America and thus prevented Communist takeovers?
(a) CIA.
(b) FBI.
(c) Alliance for Progress.
(d) Treasury Department.

2. Who fed rumors to Johnson about Robert Kennedy?
(a) Hoover.
(b) Hoffa.
(c) Wallace.
(d) McCarthy.

3. Who was the hated dictator in former Indochina in the 1960s?
(a) Diem.
(b) Laos.
(c) Ho Chi Minh.
(d) Saigon.

4. What did America have to do to prevent the rise of Communism?
(a) Lead insurgent armies.
(b) Give away land.
(c) Install a puppet regime in Indochina.
(d) Become more involved in world affairs.

5. When Robert Kennedy began a career in the Justice Department, what was his family life like?
(a) He had five children.
(b) His family had all died in the war.
(c) He did not have a family.
(d) His wife was pregnant with their first child.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?

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

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

4. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?

5. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?

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