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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 did John F. Kennedy succeed in achieving as a Senator?
(a) Imprisoning Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Demonstrating on behalf of Communists.
(c) Imprisoning Walter Reuther.
(d) Passage of a labor law with a secret ballot in union leadership elections.

2. What did the Asian countries yearn to be free of?
(a) European imperialism.
(b) Communist influence.
(c) Southern insurgents.
(d) Violent anarchists.

3. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?
(a) Videotapes.
(b) Bugging.
(c) Secret observers.
(d) Infiltration.

4. What was a difficult decision that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy faced during judicial prosecutions?
(a) Fighting insurgents.
(b) Indicting Democrats who had been loyal supporters of the Kennedy family.
(c) Facing corruption in their own family.
(d) Compromising with Catholics.

5. Who convinced an American President to invade Cuba in the 1960s?
(a) Jorge Guerra.
(b) CIA.
(c) Fidel Castro.
(d) Robert Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became the new policy of the Johnson administration toward Latin America in the 1960s?

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

3. Why did John Kennedy travel to Texas in November 1963?

4. After the landmark anti-trust case, what distinction occurred between the two political parties?

5. Who married a banking millionaire and had nine children?

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