Kennedy And Foreign Policy

Question 1

Beginning in 1961, the ________________ sent volunteers to developing countries to help with projects suck as digging wells and building schools.

Answer 1

Peace corps

Question 2

During the _________________________, the U.S navy formed a blockade around Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing in more weapons.

Answer 2

The Cuban missile crisis

Question 3

American leaders feared that if one country became Communist, nearby countries would also fall to communist, and this was called __________________.

Answer 3

Dominion theory

Question 4

Members of this counterculture, called ________, emphasized individual freedom, nonviolence, and communal sharing.

Answer 4

Hippies

Question 5

Was ratified in 1971, lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18

Answer 5

26th amendment

Question 6

A plan to pull U.S troops from Vietnam, and have the south Vietnamese army take over all the igniting. This started was called ________

Answer 6

Vietnamization

Question 7

Requires the president to get congressional approval before committing U.S troops to an armed struggle

Answer 7

War power act

Question 8

Congress passed the ______________ giving the president the authority “to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States.”

Answer 8

Tonkin Gulf resolution

Question 9

Increased involvement in the war.

Answer 9

Escalation

Question 10

He commanded the U.S ground force involved In Vietnam.

Answer 10

William westmoreland

Question 11

Supporters of the war were called ______.

Answer 11

Hawks

Question 12

Opponents of the war were called _________.

Answer 12

Doves

Question 13

It surprised attacks all over the South Vietnam, including an attack on the U.S Embassy in Saigon South Vietnams capitol.

Answer 13

Tet offensive

Question 14

Was a 21 year old architecture student when she designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her design was chose from more than 1,400 proposed memorials designs.

Answer 14

Maya ying lin

Question 15

Astronaut who made the first United States suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961.

Answer 15

Alan Shepherd

Question 16

Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space.

Answer 16

Yuri Gagarin

Question 17

He was the first person on the moon along with Edwin “Buzz” aldrin.

Answer 17

Neil Armstrong

Question 18

Was one of the leading Vietnamese nationalist.

Answer 18

Ho Chi Minh

Question 19

Was the name giving to a secret department of defense study of U.S political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967

Answer 19

Pentagon Papers