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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 disastrous incident failed miserably in Cuba and resulted in the death of numerous invading troops?
(a) Hasta Luego.
(b) Port de Santiago.
(c) Bay of Pigs.
(d) Capturing the citadel.

2. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Patrick Kennedy.

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

4. Who led a military coup to oust Diem from office?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) CIA.
(c) Cabot Lodge.
(d) President Kennedy.

5. Who did Robert Kennedy work within New York to build a model community program?
(a) William Orrick.
(b) Bobby Barkeley.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) David Hackett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organizations had numerous opponents to John Kennedy's foreign policy?

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

3. What was Robert Kennedy's margin when he won a Senate seat in New York?

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

5. Who wanted a blockade and negotiation with Cuba when they heard about the missiles?

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