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Chapter 30: The Vietnam Era
      
  1.The portion of Berlin that was free and democratic was __________.  
  a.   East Berlin  
  b.   North Berlin  
  c.   West Berlin  
  d.   South Berlin  
      
  2.In October 1962 American spy planes revealed __________ in Cuba.  
  a.   invasion forces  
  b.   nuclear missile sites  
  c.   concentration camps  
  d.   the destruction of Cuban rain forests  
      
  3.The first American in space was __________.  
  a.   John Glenn  
  b.   Gus Grissom  
  c.   Alan Shepard, Jr.  
  d.   Yuri Gagarin  
      
  4.The Communist leader of North Vietnam was __________.  
  a.   Ho Chi Minh  
  b.   Ngo Dinh Diem  
  c.   Mao Zedong  
  d.   General Tso  
      
  5.The domino theory was first stated by __________.  
  a.   John Kennedy  
  b.   Lyndon Johnson  
  c.   Richard Nixon  
  d.   Dwight Eisenhower  
      
  6.Congress gave the president broad powers to repel armed attacks against U.S. forces in __________.  
  a.   the War Powers Act  
  b.   the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  
  c.   the Da Nang Resolves  
  d.   Operation Rolling Thunder  
      
  7.The selective service system is also known as __________.  
  a.   voluntary enlistment  
  b.   civil service  
  c.   conscientious objector status  
  d.   the draft  
      
  8.The navy spy ship captured by the North Koreans was the __________.  
  a.   U.S.S. Pueblo  
  b.   U.S.S. Enterprise  
  c.   U.S.S. Cole  
  d.   U.S.S. Daniel Webster  
      
  9.__________ was elected president in 1968.  
  a.   Hubert Humphrey  
  b.   Robert Kennedy  
  c.   Richard Nixon  
  d.   Gerald Ford  
      
  10.The last Americans left Vietnam in __________.  
  a.   1969  
  b.   1972  
  c.   1973  
  d.   1975  

 






 
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