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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chester Bowles think was the most important issue to confront?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Military expansion.
(c) Budget cuts.
(d) Race issues.

2. Which issue was NOT confronting the nation when the Kennedy administration took office?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Missiles.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) China policy.

3. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Robert McNamara.

4. What state does Halberstam say the Vietcong were in when Kennedy sent the fact-finding mission in 1961?
(a) They were fragmented and plagued with in-fighting.
(b) They were committed and had good leadership.
(c) They had opposition in the civilian populace.
(d) They were using guerilla tactics ineffectively.

5. What were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about Kennedy?
(a) She did not entirely trust him.
(b) She admired his leadership.
(c) She resented his inexperience.
(d) She distrusted his Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which problem did NOT arise for the Kennedy administration during 1961?

2. What events does Halberstam say affected American perceptions of its global priorities?

3. Where did the first confrontation take place in Indochina?

4. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?

5. What does Halberstam say McNamara learned that he had to do in order to argue against nuclear weapons?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of reports does Halberstam say the U.S. got from Vietnam?

2. What did Lovett and Kennedy discuss during their meeting?

3. How did the White House eventually try to limit the military?

4. How did the situation in Vietnam unfold?

5. Who was Kennedy, and how did he become well known?

6. Why did Diem and the U.S. end up working together?

7. What was McNamara's stance with regard to nuclear weapons?

8. Why didn't the U.S. gain the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasants?

9. Describe Vietnam's problems with the Buddhist monks.

10. Who was Frederick Nolting, and what was his role in Vietnam?

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