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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 discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?
(a) Violation of civil rights.
(b) Joe McCarthy's popularity.
(c) His inability to obtain indictments of the big players in labor and management corruption.
(d) Death of his brother.

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

3. How did the American government sully its reputation abroad during the 1960s?
(a) By refusing to compromise beliefs.
(b) By offering aid to despotic governments.
(c) By advocating democracy.
(d) By refusing to engage in war.

4. What did Robert Kennedy openly criticize about American policy in Vietnam?
(a) Inability to quickly win the war.
(b) Lack of support from the locals.
(c) Failure to overthrow the Communists.
(d) Failure to hold negotiations and lack of reform in South Vietnam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Kennedy stood for reelection, what was the country enamored by?

2. Who did John F. Kennedy run against in the 1960 presidential primary?

3. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?

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

5. What did Southern conservatives call the administration in 1964?

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