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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Johnson say he needed before they could move against the North?
(a) Success in the Mekong delta.
(b) Bipartisan support.
(c) Success around Saigon.
(d) A stable government in the South.

2. Whose staff does Halberstam say outlined three responses to the American bombing campaign?
(a) General Harkin.
(b) General Westmoreland.
(c) McGeorge Bundy.
(d) Maxwell Taylor.

3. What did Robert Lovett represent for Kennedy?
(a) A bright new talent.
(b) A brilliant theoretical thinker.
(c) A link to previous administrations.
(d) A connection with the opposition.

4. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?
(a) The New England Lowells.
(b) The Rockefellers.
(c) The New York Blisses.
(d) The Roosevelts.

5. What had happened to reduce the Communism threat by the time McNamara took over as Secretary of Defense?
(a) McCarthy had purged Communists from American politics.
(b) Russia and China had split.
(c) Communism had failed in North Korea.
(d) Cuba had instituted its own version of Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?

2. Which issue was NOT confronting the nation when the Kennedy administration took office?

3. What did the U.S. embassy offer to Diem and Nhu when the coup began?

4. Which cabinet member was opposed to the Bay of Pigs invasion?

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

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