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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?
(a) When he first entered politics.
(b) In his race for Senate.
(c) During the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(d) In the 1960 campaign.

2. What events does Halberstam say affected American perceptions of its global priorities?
(a) The escalation of the Cold War and the fall of China.
(b) The tension over civil rights in America.
(c) The revolution in Cuba.
(d) The agitation of labor unions in America and Europe.

3. What does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?
(a) How to balance the budget.
(b) How to go about fighting Communism.
(c) How to reduce nuclear weapons.
(d) How to establish peace.

4. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Arms reduction.
(c) Communism conspiracies.
(d) Tax cuts.

5. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?
(a) Chester Bowles'.
(b) George Kennan's.
(c) Robert McNamara's.
(d) McGeorge Bundy's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had McNamara done by the time he took over as Secretary of Defense?

2. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?

3. What had happened to reduce the Communism threat by the time McNamara took over as Secretary of Defense?

4. What was McNamara beginning to suspect in Vietnam?

5. How long had Ho Chi Minh's communism associations been known to the U.S., in Halberstam's account?

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